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Hi Redfinch.  Yes, I am still checking in probably too frequently! I guess we'll have to rely on reports from the ground about the activities of our beloved pair, but I"ll still be looking for glimpses on the nest when the opportunity avails itself. I think I"m in withdrawl from my online friends as much as I am from seeing the birds...

9:40am

Cam on nest

Good morning Sallyls glad to see you are still checking! I have been looking also just didn't know whether to still post the morning weather or not! The sightings by everyone were really encouraging but wind and storms yesterday and now cold north wind again they may not be around today!

This morning the cam was on the city view and the media player was working fine now I can't get the media player to show anything but I see it is on the nest.

  There were wild fires in the central part of the state yesterday while there were tornadoes on this side of the state. Crazy stuff there!!!

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There is good reason to believe that Kay knew her eggs were no longer alive. The info below shows that researchers have found several kinds of birds communicate with their embryos in the shell.

Golden eagles also make special sounds during breeding season and baby eaglets even peep to their mother while they are still in the egg.

 http://www.auburn.edu/communications_marketing/askaubie/101806.html

Some birds also vocalize to mom while inside their eggs, the researchers say. And so they speculate such acoustic communication at an early stage of development may be a shared behavioral feature of past and present archosaurs, a large group of animals that includes today's birds and crocodiles along with the now-extinct dinosaurs, pterosaurs and early croc relatives.“As birds al­so pro­duce em­bry­on­ic vo­cal­iz­a­tions that in­duce pa­ren­tal care,” they wrote, “such acous­tic com­mu­nica­t­ion at an early stage of de­vel­op­ment may be a shared be­hav­ioral fea­ture of past and pre­s­ent ar­cho­saurs.” Ar­cho­saurs are an an­cient group of rep­tiles now repre­s­ented by mod­ern birds and croc­o­diles.
The study, detailed in the June 23 (2008) issue of Current Biology, was funded by the French Ministry of Research and the University Institute of France. © 2009 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved.

Morning everyone! I hope the weather has calmed down there. It looked terrible yesterday. I hope you all didn't have any damage.

Sherrill, that is fascinating information. I wonder if this is particular to the female and the egg. Because, apparently Jay didn't seem to have that communication going on with the eggs. I do believe all animals have communication patterns that humans will never completely understand. So, the information you provided makes total sense. Thanks for the post!

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1:09pm

Well I had checked earlier and the cam was on downtown. I checked just now and it is on the nest but something has changed. I don't know if something has been added or the eggs have been moved. I think something has been added to the side. I know there was a stick on the far end of the bar sticking up and it is not there now

Here is the nest on April 7 11am

Here it is now

Well while I was typing this the cam is on a fire now!!.

EDIT: This picture may or may not be current. There is a different view on the cam now and it seems to be from a mobile cam on a helicopter

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I noticed that too - looks like a piece of bark -

Observer,  I thought the same thing when they finally put the cam back on the nest, what is different? Thank you so much for the comparison shots! It does look like the front side has been built up a bit so you can't see the front egg as well as before. But with the extremely HIGH winds we've had lately, who knows who/what made the change? (1:36pm)

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4:40pm

Ah yes Camfan but it wasn't that way before the camera moved and the wind is not blowing that hard now. Plus there was a stick sticking up in the air blowing in the wind  that isn't there now!

And then Russell made his post!!

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Today as I drove by the nesting tower at 2:45 pm, I did not see any hawks, but saw this at the nearby neighborhood smorgasbord.


No squirrels or pigeons were around!  I asked  the dog to go home and he wandered off and the cat relaxed.  When I went by later, all was back to normal - birds and a pigeon.

When I was out this evening I spotted Jay at the empty lot and Kay sitting by the hawk cam around 6:15 pm.  When I was through at the store, I looked again towards the KJRH tower and Kay was still there at 7:00 pm.


Kay watching the weather and traffic since the weather/hawk cam is watching the hawk nest!

A couple more photos at my flickr site - Kay at the tower as the storm approaches yesterday at 4:15 - nothing spectacular - too gray!   www.flickr.com/photos/cheryls_camera

Thank you Catgirl!! You don't know what your sightings mean to those of us out here, lingering on every detail and great pictures! She looks good. I love you description of her watching the weather and traffci since the cam is busy!  HAHAHA

sallyls:

Thank you Catgirl!! You don't know what your sightings mean to those of us out here, lingering on every detail and great pictures! She looks good. I love you description of her watching the weather and traffci since the cam is busy!  HAHAHA

Me, too, catgirl ....   Great pics, appreciated report... and you are sooo funny with that caption!

sorry.  duplicate post.  I deleted this later once I saw the site tried to double your pleasure, double your fun.....  (not!)

socal:

sallyls:

Thank you Catgirl!! You don't know what your sightings mean to those of us out here, lingering on every detail and great pictures! She looks good. I love you description of her watching the weather and traffci since the cam is busy!  HAHAHA

Me, too, catgirl ....   Great pics, appreciated report... and you are sooo funny with that caption!

Me three!!!........What they said    (^^-^^ )

 

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10:49 a.m.  Pirate activity on the Tower:  Starling grabs the piece of bark prominent at the front of the nest bowl...

...and apparently absconds with it. Another starling was nearby at the time.