At about 1600 h, a largish hole appeared in one of the eggs (which had been showing signs of cracking for some time), and the hatching commenced about 1700
with the first appearance of the chick at 1803 h (6 pm for the Americans!).
VIDEO 20171001 1st chick appears 
As you’ve all seen, there is a sizeable hole in a second egg, so I expect something to happen tonight. I will try and get in tomorrow afternoon, but have commitment in the morning, so I’ll hand over to the night shift!
Good luck and good night to Diamond and all her followers.
Ha! I congratulated you 2 threads ago, Cilla, as I was to excited to wake up and see a perrilet on my screen I didn’t check for new threads ;-D
I stayed awake as long as I could so was very late up on this UK morning. Am now scrolling thru the past several hours for the story of the hatch, and will there be more than one?!
Videos and snaps – from pip to hatch and Xav bringing food and taking over – are here:
rspb.org.uk/community/wildlife/f/2543/p/193197/1147672.aspx#1147672
Nest cam went down for several minutes, back up to Diamond fidgeting with her back to us.
Just thought (for a change!)… maybe that was CSU’s hourly system reboot.
Here’s Xavier! I think Di will take a break ??? Waiting…
She’s in the stash corner this side, and has brought something out.
(Pleeease keep going so we can see the little on fed.)
First chick is being fed as I write. Can put up video later. Looked like other two eggs still holding out.
“Di poops in stash corner, Xav arrives, Di starts feed”
Poor Xav didn’t get to stay long.
3m57s VIDEO = youtube.com/watch?v=5zM1D25EM7o
Uncut but cropped first breakfast.
8m04s VIDEO = youtube.com/watch?v=N8QCkt-lPiI
Lots of snaps from ‘Limpy’ and me on the RSPB page linked above.
06:37hr – Prey-drop, but not yet req’d so Xav takes it away. (I won’t attempt ID-ing, but it’s not colourful 😉 ).
i.imgur.com/TqRgqs9.png
59s VIDEO = youtube.com/watch?v=Gs55grnpnxQ
Xavier is back with a prey item (don’t know if it’s the same or a new victim).
Posted that too soon – he’s gone with it again.
Methinks Xavier will have to lift his game….. chick and eggs all alone while Diamond steps out 9.10am. Gotta go to work – aaaaargh! Come on Xavier – you have a family to feed!
Late reporting due to footage crashing my editor, workaround found eventually 😉
“Diamond takes stash, leaves, chick vocal, Di returns”
(Diamond’s ledge departure was frozen out but I’ve included the disappearance of the stashed item.)
1m17s VIDEO = youtube.com/watch?v=ovfl5Mu1fQU
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It wasn’t too bad, SUE, Diamond had only been gone about a minute when Xavier got his act together… except, he didn’t really, he hadn’t even managed to sit down when Di returned ;-D
“Xavier doesn’t know how to set about brooding chick”
1m03s VIDEO = youtube.com/watch?v=6EzAyAVqSxg
Oh I see what you mean, SUE – you’re referring to Di’s earlier excursion. Sorry, my mistake 🙂
It’s Monday morning there now, isn’t it – we have that pleasure to come – but one advantage of getting old is that one doesn’t have to get up to a timetable.
just noticed that Xavier is here – he’s given up, I can’t see him on the ledge, maybe he’ll turn up there on watch soon 😉
That’s exactly what he has done 🙂
He didn’t do to great a job keeping the wasp out!
Lol, Deborah! I didn’t see the wasp, am catching up with barn owls and bats and the critters that visit the Starr Ranch ‘scent station’ and compost bin 😀
Xavier just brought a prey item, which Diamond is eating in the box – well, I think it’s her, but there’s been a big freeze and I’m talking to you so I haven’t followed it every second. I’ll replay in a minute.
There was quite a good unfreezy view on the ledge cam of Diamond eating, and now she’s feeding perrilet (I made that up, to go with ‘osplet’, take no notice).
Hi scylla, apologies for the auto-moderating going on. Comments with links in them often get halted as that’s how phishing and other evils get passed around, but once we see who’s sent the comments they’re aproved. We’re looking at a new discussion form option shortly, which should make interactions a little more straightforward.
And if anyone is getting blocked every so often please email your IP address (both v4 & v6 if they’re available) to myself privately and I’ll find where the blockage is. We’ve had repeated attempts recently to try and hack in to the backend of the website so we’ll be leaving the precautions up for now. Apologies to those genuine viewers who have been getting caught up; the small minority are making life difficult for the rest of us!
Scott
He was an egg so long .. why not call him Omelette 😀
HEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!
https://screenshots.firefoxusercontent.com/images/38ec5ff0-e9fa-41c2-b6c6-c6a59c38a20c.png
Diamond’s doing A LOT of screaming .. unless she swallowed a wasp and is in pain?
Or is it Xavier .. hurry up Diamond!
It’s Diamond .. what’s wrong???
Just got in. We have an outdoor gig coming up, so needed a band practice!
I’ll catch up with the recordings overnight and start a new thread when up to date.
5pm .. gosh the bobblehead has grown already!
Looks like something white and fluffy under the other wing
https://screenshots.firefoxusercontent.com/images/6d9833f8-0918-4e79-920c-09c5ae71cea7.png
Thank you for the message re ‘blockage’, Scott 🙂