Comments on: Rochester’s New Female Identified

By: Phayne Bushner

Phayne Bushner — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:29:14 +0000

Have been watching Mariah for years now. We are so sorry she was injured. Beauty is a good name for the newest ruling matriarch of the Rochester falcon line. Has she taken to the nest? Will she mate and settle into the nesting box? There are many beautiful Native American names for locations in the Rochester and upstate area. Perhaps these names can be given to any offspring of Beauty and her mate. I live in Loveland, CO, and recently spotted a Peregrine falcon in Yuma, CO, out on the northeastern plains of Colorado. Falcons are not a common site there, but we could not get close enough to see if the falcon was banded.

By: Janie

Janie — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:35:16 +0000

Barbara

here is the webcam with Beautys mother Dorothy sitting on 4 eggs. Her father Erie disappeared in 2007 replaced by E2

http://www.aviary.org/cons/falconcam_cl.php

By: ei

ei — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:36:24 +0000

@Barbara-you can see Dorothy & E2’s scrape at

http://www.aviary.org/cons/falconcam_cl.php

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:43:13 +0000

Is there a webcam at the site where Beauty hatched and fledged? Or a site with pictures of the nestbox and maybe even pictures of her as an eyas or fledgling? It might be nice to be able to picture where she was born. No one will ever replace Mariah completely in everyone’s hearts, but Beauty is a real beauty.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:50:38 +0000

I know how hard it is for everyone about what happened to Mariah. She is truly a Queen and will always be the Queen of Rochester. The female here at the Univ of Pittsburgh is 10 years old and I worry every year that a new female is going to challenge her. The more the falcon population grows the more they fight for a good territory and Mariah has a beautiful one. I’m glad that she is healing nicely, she’s a fighter and I have no doubt, will grow stonger with each day. I know that Beauty can never take Mariah’s place but I also know that she is lucky to have such a dedicated group of people who love falcons. I hope that Beauty and Archer are able to pick out a nest box and raise a family in Rochester this year. It’s such a beautiful sight to see the adults teaching the fledglings the ins and outs of being a peregrine. Thank you for keeping an eye or two on my Beauty.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:04:07 +0000

I’m posting this for Janie: Her post disappeared

Karen
You picked an awesome name for your falcon. I hope it will stay “Beauty”. I
loved the name since the first time I read it here on Imprints. Watchers are so
important to the young fledglings and those here have been privileged to name a
few of Mariahs offspring. The honor you can see makes them bonded in a special
way with the falcon as our CarolP is with RheaMae. I just knew in my heart you
didn’t just name her for her band color. The name was so much more special then
that. I hope you’ll join our yahoo group if you already haven’t and watch how
“your” Beauty” does in Rochester. Hopefully we see some big yellow feet aka BYF
here again with Mariah and Kaver’s ( insert sadness here for our Kaver who’s
missing) grandson Archer caring forward their legacy.. His father Freedom was
special to me (insert more sadness for his unknown whereabouts just this year)

By: Janie

Janie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:20:07 +0000

Karen
You picked an awesome name for your falcon. I hope it will stay “Beauty”. I loved the name since the first time I read it here on Imprints. Watchers are so important to the young fledglings and those here have been privileged to name a few of Mariahs offspring. The honor you can see makes them bonded in a special way with the falcon as our CarolP is with RheaMae. I just knew in my heart you didn’t just name her for her band color. The name was so much more special then that. I hope you’ll join our yahoo group if you already haven’t and watch how “your” Beauty” does in Rochester. Hopefully we see some big yellow feet aka BYF here again with Mariah and Kaver’s ( insert sadness here for our Kaver who’s missing) grandson Archer caring forward their legacy.. His father Freedom was special to me (insert more sadness for his unknown whereabouts just this year)

God Bless

By: monica

monica — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:44:57 +0000

I feel the same way about Beauty,as Joan McC. Yea she is the new resident so we need to welcome her, but then Mariah will always remain the queen of our skies. She ’s been with us for so long. She had a lot of misfortunes, Kaver not coming back, nest box moved and now the attack. Sure it’s nature and that’s what happens, but we all have hearts and that’s the way most of us falcon watchers feel.
I do like the name Beauty and it shouldn’t be changed.

By: Carol P.

Carol P. — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:19:31 +0000

No reports yet Caye.

By: caye

caye — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:10:43 +0000

Joan McC, agree with you. My loyality is with Mariah….and how I miss seeing her.
Any further reports on her since the vet saw her on Tuesday?