Sad start....

 Have been watching the Arboretum cam this morning, day 39 of incubation, and I am at a loss for what I have seen. Clearly one egg is open.....but the female moved it and pulled something out of the egg and ate it. I cannot see a chick in the nest. I will keep watching.....they are so tiny and so camouflaged in the sticks. The female left and the male took over incubation. The egg was not damaged yesterday that we could could see. It certainly could have been cracked in a way that was not observable on a cam like this that is not super hi def. At any rate, we are now watching for hatching on the other two eggs. Nature is not a disney movie. What she ate did not not appear to be a fully developed chick. There are reports of Ospreys eating a dead chick, or feeding it to other chicks. If the egg was damaged and the chick died, it is a wise use of protein. She also walked around the nest and picked up and ate a few few small bits of something. At any rate, its it’s not what we expected to see this morning. But we still hope for two healthy chicks to come.