27 April 2026
UPDATE 26 April afternoon: The 4th (last) egg hatched at 1:05pm today.
Every day is pretty much the same for the three chicks at the Pitt peregrine nest: eat and sleep. While they sleep we can’t see them because their mother Carla broods them. However, they were visible yesterday at 1:51pm as they nodded off waiting for a long feeding session to begin.
The session lasted 16 minutes; I’ve edited it down to 6 minutes. Who’s on camera?
- Carla shelters the chicks and hears Ecco wail to say “Food’s here!” She leaves to get it.
- The chicks nod off while they wait.
- Carla returns and feeds them, then she takes out the garbage.
- Ecco arrives (without food) to shelter the chicks. He cleans some food off the beak of one of the chicks. Then he shelters them.
- Carla returns, Ecco leaves.
That was just one feeding. As you can see from this timelapse there were at least 2 others in 8 hours.
Watch this peregrine family on the National Aviary falconcam at the University of Pittsburgh.
What a beautiful falcon family! Carla and Ecco are wonderful parents. I’m familiar with Carla’s “roots”, I sure wish we knew where Ecco came from. ??
Susan, Ecco is unbanded so we don’t know where he came from nor how old he is
Hi Kate, I am so over the moon with these three babies! Congratulations Carla and Ecco!
Awww, looks like the last egg hatched. Hope the littlest one will get some nourishment and catch up with the older siblings. Congrats to Carlo and Ecco..