I am sure of it, that one (that one right there, do you see it?) is looking right at me!

 Atman wrote: 
The chicks are very active this morning! Getting so big!

 kysmet wrote: 
The falcon chicklets are starting to hatch...we've got one so far today!

 Antigone wrote: 
ick! 

 kysmet wrote: 
I dated a falconer for years (no, not MBE  ) and did a lot of banding with him, so I have a frame of reference. I've been shat upon by a wide variety of raptors.  

 kysmet wrote: 
Oooh, momma's in the nest right now....when both parents are in there with all the chicklets, it's amazing that they can all fit in there.  The babies are at what I like to call Drunken Sailor Stage right now because that's what they look like when they get up to walk and flap around.

I've also watched this eagle cam in the Norfolk Botanical Gardens for the past few years.  The babies are sleeping right now.  To give you a frame of reference on this one, the nest is 800 pounds and 8 feet across!  They had a nest for quite a while but it got destroyed in the bad storms that went through there a few years ago.  So last year, the eagles built a new one and all of the camera gear had to be moved.  It's funny how attached you can get to these birds over the interwebs

 Antigone wrote: 
They're supposed to be hatching in the next week or so.  It was so funny watching them grow up, start walking, flapping their wings, then making their way out to the edge (all the while freaking out thinking one is going to fall), then flying along the ledge and to the top of the nesting box.  I watched when they took the babies for their check-up and banding and they were HUGE!  You can't tell on the cam how big they are...they still looked so little but when the hoomins took them, it was like they were holding a full-grown chicken!

 kysmet wrote: 
This cam has a clearer picture than the one in California! She's sitting on at least 4 eggs. Very nice!

Those are sure cute little falcons!

The babies are really active right now. And obviously giving Mama Falcon a headache!

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 
That was just my "Baking a Peregrine Falcon with a Large Magnifying Glass Web-cam" routine.  I do it every morning.  Should I stop?

I've watched and posted about this one in Ohio for the past few years.  The same pair, Scout and Orville, come back and nest, there was a contest for school children to name the chicks last year and they show the banding as well.  One of them is laying on some eggs right now

 Antigone wrote: 
Yeah she looks a lot more comfortable now. I'm glad it's just the morning sun. She gave us a great look at the babies!

 manbirdexperiment wrote: 
She's in the shade now, and you can see a  couple of chicks moving around underneath her. Beautiful.

 Atman wrote: 
Wow, she look really hot. I wish they had a bit of shade there. 

 Atman wrote: 

an actual linky

What could be cooler than:

http://sanjose.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=91