The overnight was rainy and chilly with temperatures in the high thirties. Some snow squalls occurred after dawn, but most were over by 8:00 AM and the sky began to clear. The temperature was 40 degrees by noon, although a driving wind made it seem colder. By late afternoon, we had reached 50 degrees. As expected, Astrid was on her eggs all night long. Ares showed up on the State Building at around 5:40 AM and he screeched to the box five minutes later. The pair did a quick switch and then Astrid went to the State Building. The next changing of the guard occurred at 8:35 and then Astrid was back on the nest. initially Ares was on the State Building but seemed to be making occasional forays. At 10:46 she was calling from the nest and reacting to something happening – maybe he was actively chasing prey. At 11:14 he was back on a State Building perch. Almost an hour later he was out on another mission only to return a few minutes after that. When he left at 12:52 PM we didn’t see him again on camera until 3:11 when he popped into the box to ask for a turn on the eggs. By that point Astrid had been sitting for well over 6 hours. She had called out a few times from the nest. We didn’t know if she was doing it because she saw him or because she wanted him to take a shift. Regardless, once he had arrived she took little convincing to leave and he climbed onto the eggs. At 3:14 she was on the State Building. At 4:23 they both began giving cackle-type alarm calls. Ares was quite upset; he got off the eggs and dove into the canyon. Without missing a beat, Astrid came right over and resumed incubating the eggs. She hadn’t had a very long break and now she was most likely going to spend the balance of the afternoon as well as the entire night on the eggs. As for Ares, he seemed to be making forays into the territory – hunting for birds most likely. He was seen on the County Building a couple of times before 7:32 and then he was off – probably to his night perch. Goodnight falcons.