I guess I didn't wait long enough for you to finish posting, Nanc.

Here's a question
Do you think that this one that arrived first with the nesting material is the male,
and then when the female arrived, the male??? left and then returned and mated
with her?

Rose, I am going back and studying my scaps that I didn't delete to see if I can figure out what I have. I also am watching the Peregrine Falcon nest to see how many chicks are there and so I have not seen everything at Breslau. Be back.

ETA: Didn't find anything that helps!

Wooohoooo
Look what we got here, Nanc.
12:45pm



I think that Hera & Zues are the ones on the bottom of the pic

Yes, Rose! And look at the tail feathers on one on bottom right. Female? And one at top of pic looks female.

Do we have 2 females and a male? And also during that sequence, a large bird flew in the w/a camera but I missed it.

12.52pm
Hera & Zues fly off together and leave this one on it's
own

See how much darker that ones feather look and that's one that
the other one kept jumping on. I think now that all those ones we
thought were matings was an actual attempt to chase her off the
nest. What do you think?

I didn't notice the one flying by on the W/A Nanc, but yesterday
the two camera were out of sync, so it may have been the same one
that arrived on the nest but you were just seeing it at a different time.
Does that make any sense to you?

Rose, I thought in one of those mating? or fake mating sequences, this one in your scap was involved. Clueless here on that.

Okay, that is what I thought a couple days ago too. That I was not so sure they were mating. This one w the dark chest was the one being mounted, so maybe we were not seeing mating then, but like you suggest, an attempt to chase her away. We definitely caught mating today in that one sequence.

Oh, I agree.....that last one was definitely a mating.

I added something to my posting above, Nanc...about the
W/A camera.