The video opens with a short clip taken from the tower this morning where Cilla believes this could have been Yira flying to the tower. She noted that the flying was similar to a juvenile and not an adult.

Then later, Cilla went out looking for Yira and she found her just past noon in Girinyalanha Tower. The cam op panned to the tree that Yira was seen in but it was hard to tell if Yira was still in there. Great news that Yira has been spotted and is flying well!

The rest of my video covers three bonding sessions with Diamond & Xavier. Xavier is so funny as he dances around Di he is so light and quick on his feet! When he does his GCW jump you almost miss it he is so fast! I put his fastest GCW jump in slomo and he is still fast lol It is 10:40 for the last GCW jump in slomo! Thank you for watching!
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1ST HATCH: Oct 4th 2024 00:24:12
2nd HATCH: Oct 5th 2024 05:34"35
Egg#3 is nonviable
Garrama fledges at 39 days old Nov 13th 2024
Garrama euthanized due to a deformed spine & inability to fly Nov 15th 2024
Yira fledges at 43 days old Nov 16th 2024

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.    / falconcamproject  

Box Cam link: https://www.youtube.com/live/yv2RtoIMNzA
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