Special Topic: Egg Laying

It was right around 11:40AM this morning when I noticed Sadie behaving as though she were about to lay another egg.

She hunched above the other two eggs, started to pant, and circle around as if trying to get into a comfortable position in the nest. Her body subtly undulated several times and then she rested on the nest. It looked very much like the egg was laid at 11:44AM.

She took a little nap and finally stood up 12:17PM to reveal all three eggs on the live Nest Cam. The new egg is the one on the left:

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It was around 11:25AM when I noticed Sadie get restless and unsettled on her egg. She looked uncomfortable and was showing signs that she was going to lay another egg. Her breathing accelerated, she hovered over the nest bowl, and within a few minutes she had laid her second egg. The whole process took just a few minutes, around the same amount of time it took for her to lay her first egg.

A screenshot I took at 11:29, shortly after her 2nd egg appeared in view on the live nest cam:

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Sadie laid her first egg of 2018 today. I had been watching the live Hawk cam and around 1:10PM it became increasingly obvious that she was in ‘labor’. I would guess the egg was delivered between 1:10-1:15.

Sadie has since been lying down in the nest as if incubating, getting up and maneuvering an object between her legs, then settling back down as though to incubate. She’s been that way ever since (it’s 2:41PM right now) so it’s safe to say she has laid an egg!

Update: 4:30PM – Bobby and Sadie have been switching egg-warming duty the last few hours and all is looking well. Here’s to hoping they have a happy and healthy brood this year!

6:30PM: Here is some footage from today’s incubating and a peek at the egg at the end as Sadie lifts new paper off of it and when she rolls it underneath her: