Mar 19 2009
Question: Where are the Parents?
Question: Sometimes when I look at the webcam there are no adult birds in view. Aren’t they afraid their eggs or chicks will be attacked? Where are they?
Answer: They’re there. You just can’t see them from the camera’s narrow view. At times when “no parents are there” on camera, I have been at Schenley Plaza (across from the Cathedral of Learning) and seen a parent bird perched just two feet above the nest, watching it.
In this photo you can see a shadow at the left corner of the nest box near the green perch. That’s one of the parents guarding the nest, just out of camera view.
(photo from National Aviary falconcam at University of Pittsburgh)
Hi, I teach first grade in the Connellsville Area School District ….my students and I have been watching the fledgelings since last Tues. we have it on all day . They are so excited especially when they can see the babies…what a wonderful learning experience for all of us.