Diamond arrives with a pigeon and Yira is right there to claim it and pull it away from Mom. Garrama tries to get a few nibbles as Yira grips the prey and self feeds. Then Diamond will take the prey back and begin to feed a hungry Garrama first, then Yira, then Garrama again until he is stuffed with a huge crop. Yira is off in the corner snoozing in a food coma while Garrama gets round two of the food. When he is full he goes to the corner to join his sibling and Diamond finishes up the the remains. Thank you for watching!

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

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1ST HATCH: Oct 4th 2024 00:24:12
2nd HATCH: Oct 5th 2024 05:34"35
Egg#3 is nonviable


GENERAL INFORMATION:
This is a research project through Charles Sturt University, Orange, New South Wales Australia, studying the diet and use of a nest box of a family of peregrines living in water tower since 2007. We now have nine years' worth of diet and seven years of behaviour data The cams go right through the year and are in daily use.

HISTORY:
The birds have been observed using the tower (a working water tower) since 2007, breeding in the box since 2008, with an average of 2.8 eggs per clutch and 1.5 fledges per season.

The parents' names are Diamond (female) and Xavier (male). Diamond took over from the older Swift in 2015 and Xavier replaced Bula in 2016 (who in turn replaced our first male, Beau, in 2015). Xavier arrived just as the eggs were hatching and saved the season by providing for Diamond and her three chicks. Assuming that they were at least two years old when they arrived, Diamond is at least eleven years old and Xavier nine (in 2024).

The male is 1520% smaller than the female, has fewer spots on the chest and has brighter yelloworange talons and beak. The birds do not migrate and courtship rituals and some scrape (nest) building continues throughout the year, intensifying, along with food bringing by the male, in July and August.

Eggs are laid usually in late August, with chicks hatching in early October and fledging in midNovember. The youngsters often stay around as late as March being taught to hunt by their parents, and often visiting the nest in the tower, so there is much to watch even out of the main breeding season. One male juvenile stayed until August the following year when his parents blocked his entrance to the box and he took the hint.
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Courtesy of Falcon Project Orange NSW Australia. Many thanks to Cilla Kinross, principal researcher at CSU.

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