25 March 2026
Carla and Ecco now have four eggs but we wouldn’t have known it until sharp-eyed observer Scott Hannan captured a screenshot just before 7am when Carla and Ecco did a nest exchange. Ecco is in this photo, getting ready to incubate.
It took me a while to find the moment when Carla laid the egg. From the overnight archives she laid it at 1:20am. It’s under her tail in this screenshot.
Here’s the video at the moment of laying and a couple of minutes thereafter.
After laying the egg, Carla incubated nonstop until Ecco came to relieve her at 6:58am. Here’s what Scott saw this morning.
It is likely that this fourth egg is Carla’s last for the clutch. She and Ecco will be incubating until hatch date in late April.
Watch The Big Sit at the Pitt peregrines’ nest on the National Aviary falconcam at the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning.
Awwwww…. thanks for the nod 🙂
i love watching ecco try to fit all 4 eggs under himself to incubate
Are you looking for any part time volunteers to monitor Pittsburgh? If so give me more details on location and ideal watching spots. Any eggs in the nest there or camera on the nest? I didn’t see any links from the aviary.
Yes we need help monitoring Downtown Pittsburgh! I will email you
Four eggs! Holy smokes. Do you think that they all will make it?
Janine, it’s hard to tell.