Delta2 2017 - 2018 Observation and Discussion Thread

[Jean]

7:39pm........Poor Ma..........so very wet.

[Marg]

Managed to get one more shot.

[Jean]

7;47pm..........Ma is restless........understandably so. She is up again.........that chick is nearly hatched.........we are seeing lots of its body, but it isn't out of the shell yet.

This is the hole on the second egg.

Broken up shell of the first egg.

Body of hatching chick seen through the cracks.

[Jean]

7:49pm..........Good s'cap Marg.......shows lots of the body of that hatching chick.

Last of these: I'm trying to figure out what that pointed triangular bit was.

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[Marg]

Two more pics.
Oh my!

[Jean]

8:00pm......Surely that chick will be out of the shell tonight............the shell is just hanging by a thread I'm sure............Ma showed us the very active chick.............and she rolled it, making the shell fall apart even more. We can see the hole in the other egg too.............and I think maybe the beak of the second chick sticking out.

[Jean]

8:02pm...........One more good roll might do it.........that chick is so close to being free from the shell.

Could this be the beak of the other chick on the second egg?

[Jean]

8;08pm......Here we go again! Mom up and moving the eggs............we are so close to a hatch!!

[Jean]

8:09pm............Ma rolling the eggs again............sure looks like that chick was standing up as the shell moved backwards into Ma!

Karen, what do you think? Still not officially a hatch? It looked free to me but the shell seemed to settle back over it once everything stopped moving.

[SueB]

Jean, looks like baby was all the way out of shell at 8:05 pm. From my phone so may not be a full screen shot.

[Jean]

Jean, looks like baby was all the way out of shell at 8:05 pm. From my phone so may not be a full screen shot.

Sue...........wonderful s'cap from the other cam!! YES, I do think it was out then and I think it was out in my s'caps too! I think we can call this a hatch! So happy you were here.........you are going to be so tired tomorrow!

Sue, let's call your time as the official time.........my s'caps are unclear and yours is not! So Ma and Pa have their first chick............hatched at 8:05pm tonight!

[SueB]

Here’s one with the time stamp

[Jean]

8:22pm........Congratulations Ma and Pa! First hatch..............8:05pm tonight................tomorrow we expect to see hatch #2.

[SueB]

Jean, thanks for being there on the cams. I was informed the little one was close so had to watch. Guess we may have a 2nd one tomorrow morning. Congratulations Ma and Pa Delta! Going to be a long night for Ma.

[Jean]

8:28pm...........Ma must be so tired..........a long day.

[Jean]

Jean, thanks for being there on the cams. I was informed the little one was close so had to watch. Guess we may have a 2nd one tomorrow morning. Congratulations Ma and Pa Delta! Going to be a long night for Ma.

Thank you Sue! Your s'cap saved me a bit of work............now you should likely go to bed, and hopefully will sleep.......very late there for you.

I also just realized that the controls seem to be working well right now...........can't figure out why sometimes they are and mostly are not. Just hope this gets better.

[Darlene]

Congratulations Ma and Pa Delta2 on your first hatch of the season!

[Jean]

8:39pm......No doubt about it.........that chick is out of the shell. We can see the mashed up shell at the left, chick in the middle and the unhatched egg at the right. Poor chick got rolled by Ma a couple of times.

Thank you Darlene!

[Jean]

8:40pm.........More of the newly hatched.

[Marg]

Congratulations Ma & Pa Delta!
Great pictures Sue & Jean!

[urban Eagle]

wahoooo baby' out , congrats Ma and Pa

[RitaR]

Congrats Ma an Pa Delta on your new little one!

[Jean]

8:48pm..........Ma continues to roll the chick, the unhatched egg and anything else in the way.

Thanks Larry, Rita and Karen..................this little one is going to get dizzy if Ma keeps doing that.

[Jean]

8:51pm..........Much of the shell itself is broken into bits and smashed up now........still one larger chunk to the far side. And of course we have a second unhatched egg on the nest too.

[Jean]

8:55pm..........Little one is getting rolled again............nice to see it moving about underneath Ma.

[urban Eagle]

I never stop being amazed

[Jean]

9:00am...............At last she sleeps. But it will likely be a short nap as Ma will not rest completely with that chick underneath her and another on the way.

Larry, it is amazing indeed how well Ma and Pa do this every year............their timing is something to wonder at.............and the tireless efforts to bring forth new life are why we love them so much.

[Jean]

9:03pm...............It has been a long day here........I have been here several hours to witness this event........time for me to go too..........I will leave the cams up close so any viewers can see if Ma shows her chick and egg.

Thanks so much everyone for being here today..........Wonderful job zoomers!

I am now OFF both cams.

[Kitcat11848]

Congratulations Delta 2 on the hatch of chick #1. Wonderful scaps and zooms by all.

[Jean]

Congratulations Delta 2 on the hatch of chick #1. Wonderful scaps and zooms by all.

Thank you Marianne...............and now I'm going to bed. Goodnight all.