Update for Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Tuesday was a fairly typical day for the falcons during the early incubation period. Astrid and Ares seamlessly alternated their duties throughout the morning and afternoon. They must have read yesterday’s update because today both were extra polite when requesting the other for a turn on the eggs. Neither shoved the other off the clutch. Instead, the falcon asking to take over remained on the crossperch and simply flew away when their counterpart did not stir. At one point in midafternoon, Ares got on the eggs and remained there for four hours. Astrid came to the nest two or three times to relieve him, but he held his place. She allowed him to have a nice long sit. She finally came in and he was ready to go at 7:30 PM. If Astrid was to lay a fifth egg, it would have happened today, and that didn’t happen. Of course, we were not surprised. In the previous 10 breeding seasons Astrid laid 4 eggs only. Indeed, she is a four-egg kind of falcon.
