Banding day watch 6-18-13
By Rochester Falcon Watch MAK
Watchers on the ground were as follows: Dan, Larry, Brian, Joyce, Lynda and Tim, KathyO, Dana, Barbara(watcher) Barb (BBP bander) and myself.
Beauty and Dot.Ca were marvelous defending their nest box from the “bad man”. Beauty didn’t leave the air until all was done and over. She landed on the deck and then went up on the main cam to check on her family to be sure all were present and accounted for. Dot.Ca (DC) was hesitant at first but he soon joined Beauty to try and scare off these awful humans that were messing with his nest box and kids. He made the closest swoop at the nest box and I’m sure that it’s from all the practice he had from earlier this year when he swooped on Beauty.
They banded 2 girls and a boy: Rosetta, Voyager and Baron
I have provided links below of a photo album and 3 videos- I hope you enjoy!
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0AaN3DFm0ZMWqiJc
http://youtu.be/xEHV42sQV9w
http://youtu.be/3Svwr64tw08
June 18th, 2013 at 11:47 PM
Amazing tracking of Beauty and Dot.ca in-flight, MAK! How do you do that?! It’s nice to see what was behind all of the background noise. Congratulations, to everyone involved, on another successful banding day!
June 19th, 2013 at 12:21 AM
Thank you so much for commenting Barb-it was pretty tricky to follow especially DC. He was faster and I lost him quick! 🙂
June 19th, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Yesterday was quite an exciting day. I’m so happy I was able to watch it on the camera thru my phone. Yup, there I was murmuring and cooing to my phone when the babies were squaking.
June 19th, 2013 at 5:27 PM
Ps, I agree with Barb, above, great job with the video of Beauty and DC. I was wondering what they were doing during banding. You must have been dizzy. Thank you again!
June 19th, 2013 at 7:47 PM
Well thank you so much for your comments lori! I’m happy you could watch too!! And, I’m naturally dizzy!!! 🙂