Today the falcons’ incubation continued without any major interruptions. This morning Astrid and Ares switched quite a few times. As if to make up for bringing in no food yesterday (nothing that we know of anyhow) Ares brought two food tributes to the box this morning and Astrid took them both. She ate one of them on the church steeple. She still seemed to be hungry afterwards and a little later on in the day she was seen diving out out after prey herself. During two of the switches, Ares didn’t seem to want to leave the box and it took some persuading by his mate to get him off of the eggs. The second time Astrid wasn’t as patient and was stronger about imposing her will. She crowded him and seemed poised to step on his tail. At this strong prompting, he left. In the noon hour the birds were acting as though they were upset about intruders in the canyon, but they gave no alarm calls and no one saw anything suspicious. The falcons dashed around the downtown area in a mild frenzy. It turned out that they were upset about some people that were walking around on the roof of the State Office Building. One of them apparently tried to get a picture of Ares. Some rain fell in the mid-afternoon and following that the birds weren’t very active. We lost track of Ares by late afternoon. Astrid was in the box as the sun disappeared. It’s possible that Ares was sleeping on the State Building somewhere where we couldn’t see him.
Nice update Matt!
Thank you!