13 April 05
Eyas
— an unfledged or nestling hawk (WordNet)
All four of Gracie’s eggs have hatched! She is the peregrine falcon nesting on top of the PG & E building that we have been watching excitedly through the webcam set up by the good folks at the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group. The chicks are difficult to see in the webcam since the adults brood them almost constantly to keep them warm, but there are pictures of them here in the nest diary.
- They’re in Shakespeare, too—Hamlet talks about “little eyases.”— Doc Rock 14. April 2005, 07:47 Link
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