Peregrine Falcon, Orange NSW - 2020

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This morning's breakfast, long.  Both eyases were up but I don't think the weaker got much to eat, but I haven't been able to watch it all thru.

At the moment I'm extracting and uploading nearly all the "significant" activities, hoping to help out Cilla Kinross, who's got her hands full trying to monitor the family and ID prey items etc.

The weaker sibling is hanging on in there, shame we often can't see the feeds.

I should be packing up now, I'll just see if there's more significations that have to be "done"...

Last one - 12:13 Xav was babysitting, Di brought in a prey item she'd stashed earlier (IIRC):

G'night folks!

This covers 13:38 second lunch and further feeds up to bedtime.

I am wondering if the weaker eyas has 2 fully-functional legs - I've noticed that when it's on its back (which is often) it has been waving only one leg.  Of course it could be chance, but I'm trying to notice it from now on.

I wonder if you can possibly see that only the left foot is "waving" and the right cannot be seen, sometimes I think I can see a stump - the eyas is on its back with bottie to the right:

I do think that the weaker chick is quite damaged in some way, maybe that's the one which took so long to break out ... has great difficulty in righting itself & falls onto back easily, doesn't help any that D seems very awkward this year, actually pinned one down in your vid! Sad scenario which I suspect will not improve!  Hope I'm wrong!

WendyBartter said:

doesn't help any that D seems very awkward this year,

Agreed.  I was wondering (I'm always 'wondering', aren't I?  ) yesterday how old she is - we've no idea, of course.

Can't remember if it's ever been mentioned ... but then again I can't remember lots of things these days! Lol
Wonder if Cilla has any idea?

08 October

Get-go and breakfast, we were able to see a little.  The weaker sibling was at least the right way up, but it's difficult to separate the two in order to see which got what.