Xavier is such a wonderful Dad who loves to incubate his eggs and raise a family with Diamond. He flies into the nest box and he thought that Di would want a break and he would get to incubate. But Di did not want to get up so X went to the ledge and waited. If he couldn't get his egg time, he still wanted to be there with Diamond. X waits for over TWO hours before he finally flew off for a break. ♥
Xavier returns 40 minutes later and Di still did not want to get up off the eggs! So X stayed on the ledge and waited again!! Twenty minutes go by and then X gets excited - Di is getting up! So X runs to the eggs ready to take over...but Di was just repositioning. X was persistent and kept trying to get to them...he even rolled an egg in anticipation, but Diamond said no! Oh the convo they had too with X going back and forth around the eggs! Finally X gives up and goes to the ledge and jumps off in a GCW moment - (Goodbye Cruel World) ♥
Xavier returns a half hour later (now he had been waiting 3 hours & 45 minutes) and Diamond finally gets up and X gets to run to the eggs!! Heaven! Bliss! X is so happy. Diamond came back about 45 minutes later - X is not ready to get up. She stands on the ledge for a couple of minutes but then moves in and X knows that his job has been fulfilled and so he takes off jumping off the ledge again with his signature move.
Diamond and Xavier are exceptional parents and really love their eggies and future chicks to be! Thank you for watching!
Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk
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GENERAL INFORMATION:
This is a research project through Charles Sturt University, Orange, New South Wales Australia, studying the diet and use of a nest box of a family of peregrines living in water tower since 2007. We now have nine years' worth of diet and seven years of behaviour data The cams go right through the year and are in daily use.
HISTORY:
The birds have been observed using the tower (a working water tower) since 2007, breeding in the box since 2008, with an average of 2.8 eggs per clutch and 1.5 fledges per season.
The parents' names are Diamond (female) and Xavier (male). Diamond took over from the older Swift in 2015 and Xavier replaced Bula in 2016 (who in turn replaced our first male, Beau, in 2015). Xavier arrived just as the eggs were hatching and saved the season by providing for Diamond and her three chicks. Assuming that they were at least two years old when they arrived, Diamond is at least eleven years old and Xavier nine (in 2024).
The male is 15-20% smaller than the female, has fewer spots on the chest and has brighter yellow-orange talons and beak. The birds do not migrate and courtship rituals and some scrape (nest) building continues throughout the year, intensifying, along with food bringing by the male, in July and August.
Eggs are laid usually in late August, with chicks hatching in early October and fledging in mid-November. The youngsters often stay around as late as March being taught to hunt by their parents, and often visiting the nest in the tower, so there is much to watch even out of the main breeding season. One male juvenile stayed until August the following year when his parents blocked his entrance to the box and he took the hint.
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Courtesy of Falcon Project Orange NSW Australia. Many thanks to Cilla Kinross, principal researcher at CSU.
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