Just-hatched baby falcons at City Hall

[abcdefz]

Yeah. You probably won't be able to see 'em, but they're on camera here.

Here's the diary from the last batch. The photo about halfway down of one of the chicks warning Brian off is pretty funny.

These falcons are amazing. They dive bomb pigeons at City hall right out of the air and take them back for food.

[taquitos]

Awww! wook at the baby fowcons!

i used to want a peregrine falcon when i was little, after i read My Side of the Mountain and that kid had one.

They are the fastest moving animal, clocking in at diving speeds of up to 90mph!

[na§tee]

all i can see is a big black motherfucker. that is certainly not a baby. move, bitch! move!
EDIT: christ, maybe it is. falcons are pretty huge after all. don't look at me, i'm british.

i hate pigeons. i hate when you're sat in george square eating your lunch people decide to feed them by throwing their crumbs on the ground and they all come swarming next to you. you can feel a hot breeze of GERMS enveloping your food. thanks, citizen! pigeons are rats with wings. grey squirrels are rats with pretty tails. FACT.

[abcdefz]

It's the mom, I think.

You can see what the chicks look like if you scroll down on the diary page.

[MC Moot]

Trick!...we've been at it in this city for 20 some years...it's great to see the recovery since the ban of DDT's...I love birds of prey...

http://www.falconcam.med.ualberta.ca/past_news.html

Pergerine feather given to me by Aboriginal student...

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x.../peregrine.jpg

[abcdefz]

Nice!

[MC Moot]

quick!...she's sticking her head out....

http://www.falconcam.med.ualberta.ca/cam1.html

*wishes she was in San Jose,returns to box*

[abcdefz]

I can't see it.

I don't have admin rights on my computer, so I can't install Java or whatever that is...

[na§tee]

i want BABIES goddammit!

someone throw a rock at it.

i josh, i josh! oh, how i josh!

i would link you to a glasgow webcam, but all i can find is george square WITH THE PIGEONS that i will walk across in, oh, four minutes.

[AceFace]

i'm mesmerized by this. <3 momma bird!

[MC Moot]

I've noticed that' theres no nesting material in the box here....

http://www.falconcam.med.ualberta.ca/cam2.html

[jabumbo]

we've had falcons nesting on the roof of the cathedral of learning here for years!!

tis a shame that the webcam is currently down

[AceFace]

she's keeping those babies WARM!

[YoungRemy]

some momma bird was trying to build a nest on top of a lamp outside my screen door. she kept scrapping the whole thing and starting over. I came home the other day and found a cracked egg with yolk all over the floor

[abcdefz]

I've always wondered how the chicks don't smother.

A little bit ago she actually got up and rolled one of the eggs and then got back down. I thought maybe another one was hatching.

[MC Moot]

Fastest creature on the planet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mTP...eature=related

[AceFace]

TWO BABIES!

[AceFace]

holy shit that's gruesome.

[abcdefz]

Cool! You can see them right now.

I don't know what time the dad usually brings food back.

[abcdefz]

I think she's rolled one of the eggs behind her.

[AceFace]

dad brought food. a whole dead bird. very gross.

[abcdefz]

Cool

[AceFace]

that's a broken egg behind her. there's still one nestled in with the babies it looks like.

did you see both mom and dad!?

[abcdefz]

I missed it.

There were, I think, four eggs total. Two have hatched, or three now?

[abcdefz]

Originally Posted by AceFace

did you see both mom and dad!?

She actually had a different partner last year who disappeared in July. I guess they usually mate for life, so no one knows what happened.
Anyway, two new falcons came and courted her, and this guy won.

[AceFace]

how awesome!

ok i see 2 chicks and an egg. that's it.

[MC Moot]

Originally Posted by YoungRemy

some momma bird was trying to build a nest on top of a lamp outside my screen door. she kept scrapping the whole thing and starting over. I came home the other day and found a cracked egg with yolk all over the floor

When I used to work for the city of Richmond,the electricians spent 1/2 the year rotating the lamps out of street lights and when they found nests in them with or without chicks they used to just throw them to the ground......I was like you guy's heartless civ's...and they were all like "cowboy up,whiner,"...it was city policy and all...

[abcdefz]

Wow. That really sucks.

[abcdefz]

You called it, AceFace!

Originally Posted by Mercury News

The big event happened overnight when two of the fledglings broke through their eggs sometime between 3 and 6 a.m., according to
Evet Loewen, who helps moderate an online forum on the birds. A third baby falcon emerged later in the morning, and around 10:30 a.m.,
the three fledglings could be seen feeding on what appeared to be a giant pigeon.

[na§tee]

a giant pigeon!

it's definitely from glasgow.