Wednesday, March 14, 2012

BREAKING NEWS!! THE FIRST EGG APPEARS

At about 1 PM today, much to everyone's surprise, the formel laid the first egg of the 2012 season.   John Blakeman fortunately was watching the cam and got this image just after the egg appeared.
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Dad had been continuing to dump plastic and other junk in the nest despite the formel's best attempts to clear it out.  She appeared to have little interest in settling down to lay an egg, and quite frankly, who could blame her, when the nest bowl looked like an outtake from Hawk Hoarders from Hell.

Earlier today was the first time she  stayed on the nest for more than a couple of minutes, and as John Blakeman notes, "the formel showed few 'eggnancy' traits. She just dropped the egg and resumed normal activity. She's a pro, with no problems."

More to follow in a longer post.

2 comments:

  1. Outstanding. Spring is really here.

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  2. Wooo Hooo, we're all cheering at work but darn it we just can't get the camera to work this year!!

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