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We just put out a press release regarding last night’s unfortunate events at the Capitol.   It is pasted, below. Storms Claim Capitol Peregrine Falcon Chicks LINCOLN – The severe weather that wreaked havoc across much of Nebraska on the evening and night of June 3 also appears to have claimed the two peregrine falcon chicks atop the Nebraska Capitol building. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission provides live streaming video of the nest box, and many falcon watchers awoke to …

LINCOLN – The severe weather that wreaked havoc across much of Nebraska on the evening and night of June 3 also appears to have claimed the two peregrine falcon chicks atop the Nebraska Capitol building. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission provides live streaming video of the nest box, and many falcon watchers awoke to find it empty early June 4. Game and Parks and Capitol staff, along with personnel from Fontenelle Forest’s Raptor Recovery, found the bodies of both …

It appears the Peregrines have been overcome by sanity and ceased egg production.   Five eggs is certainly enough and above normal.  Peregrine Falcons nesting at mid-latitudes average about 3.8 eggs per clutch.   If you happened to check the webcam during the weather on Sunday, you might have witnessed that five eggs was almost more than the birds could handle in the rain and wind.  For a while, a couple of the eggs got loose.  Fortunately, Jeanne Hibbert captured some screen …

Even though we do not know when it was laid due to a brief outage, egg #4 did indeed arrive either late Monday or early Tuesday. That could be it as four eggs is about the average Peregrine Falcon clutch size.  We will know for sure in two or three days.  To see the LIVE! streaming video, click HERE.