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Zone Out to a Live Cam of Harrisburg's Fluffy, Baby Falcons
Mom is doing squats on them at the moment.
Who knew once her eggs hatched, a mother falcon doesn't release her young but bounces up and down on them as if doing squats?
That's one of the engrossing things I've learned watching the Falcon Cam streaming live from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Another: Baby falcons look like that half-formed baby in Eraserhead.) For some time, cameras atop the Rachel Carson State Office Building have monitored a Peregrine family tending to a clutch of brown eggs. The shells began cracking last week, four chicks emerged, and the mom promptly sat on them like a pro wrestler pinning an opponent.