In a welcome change from my experience yesterday, there was an abundance of flying to be seen this morning. I’ve written about it and posted pictures for you to enjoy at Peregrinations:
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/06/mischief-and-mistakes.html

Jim

I finally had some time to download my pictures and a video snippet from today’s Watch.  My report is written up on this Kodak Gallery Album.  I hope this works.  It’s the first time I’ve tried to do my report this way.

Enjoy!

Carol P.

First the Kodak Gallery Album.  No sign on necessary for either.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=171aim5l.4egj94p9&x=0&y=-eknxao&localeid=en_US

or tiny url

http://tinyurl.com/6as5p2

and now for the video.  A game of talon tag anyone!

http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=171aim5l.21h9oqul&x=0&y=-l5g2en&localeid=en_US

or tiny url

http://tinyurl.com/66q4hh

Carol P.

It was a pretty quiet and predictable watch.

Quest flew from the Kodak building  to the smokestack . It was the first time I have seen a juvenile fly this year. Great flight  and good landing! I liked that!

Seneca did spend the whole evening in the playpen, Mariah watched over her early in the evening as Seneca ate her meal. 

We had a bit of action when Susan B flew and tagged Mariah, hoping for a meal . SB landed on the level with the scallops ( I never know what level number they are!)  and remained there for the rest of my watch. It was good to see her back in action!

Diamonte flew over to the stack to be with his sister. They stayed there most all of the night.

Kaver stayed on the Rocket ship level, supervising all of the action.

Everyone stayed in place, except Mariah e=who seemed to flit around to check on everyone.

There was no feeding action from my view until later when Mariah tried to stoop a Mourning Dove, right by us on the kodak building veranda. She missed, but the dove hid under the railing by the building all night. As it got dark one of the birds from the stack flew over to the tower. 

A short time later we saw Mariah chase the other off of the stac and on to the tower. it was really amazing to see her actually corral a juvenile to the tower. Soon after, Kaver left the tower ~so as to say , his work was done for the night and Mariah had things under control, and he flew to the south  his favorite hunting ground.

We saw everyone but Zephyr.  I wouldn’t worry about him , though, he has shown himself to be a successful fledgling.

Liza O

Not much activity to report from me, I’m afraid… I did catch a few shots of the fledglings though, including a few flight shots.  You can see themhere:
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/06/fledglings-spend-day-slacking.html

Jim

8:00
Arrive to find Dan S on watch. He reported 3 juvies on the stack earlier. He showed me Quest on 17 and 1 juvie on 16, both on the SE corners.

8:10 – 8:30
Took a walk around the neighborhood. I found 2 juvies on 16 and 17 SE corner, one on 19 NE, Kaver on the landing pad NW. No sighting on the stack, Bldg 9 or 10.

8:50
1 juvie arrives from the east to the 19th floor east-side. Then it goes north around the Kodak bldg and fliews west. I lost sight of it over Bldg 9.

9:00
1 juvie spotted on the south face of 20, sitting on a rail.

9:10
Quest (on 17) and Susan B (on 16) are spreading their wings to full length in the sun.

9:15
A short flight for Quest to 19 NE. She disappears up there.

9:20 – 9:30
Based on the following activity, I had Susan B on 16, Seneca in the playper, Diamante on 20 south, Quest on 17. I had 2 falcons fly in and out. All flew less Seneca and Susan B. I had M&K in the air with 2 juvies over State St and around the tower. 2 juvies were in talon tag. The parents were encouraging the juvies to fly. One juvie was on 19 SE. The parents buzzed it several times.

9:32
Zephyr and Mariah were chasing around the 10th floor and over Bldg 9.

9:35 M&K were working on Susan B (16 SE) by flying loops near her and over State St. 1 juvie flew to the stack (?Zephyr). Then M&K were over the river where they flew loops together.

9:38
Susan B is on 16 SE. Seneca is in the playpen. 1 juvie (?Zephyr) is on the stack. So this means that I had Zephyr, Diamante and Quest flying together.

9:50
Zephyr walked to the far side of the stack. I can’t see him now.

9:52
Starting a walk up Morrie Silver Way.

9:55
Saw one adult on the lilies.

10:05
Finished my walk aournd the neighboorhood.

10:10
1 juvie male flies into 17 SE

10:55
The male on SE 17 goes to the northside.

11:09
M&K are cirlcing. 1 juvie is in the air. It went to the north side. Mariah went to the scrape. One is on the SE floodlight. 1 is on 16 NR. Kaver is on the lilies.

11:40 Kaver is gone.

11:45 Kaver brings food to 17SE directly above Susan B on 16SE. She is crying out. Kaver is cleaning. Mariah is still at the scrape. Kaver brings the food to Susan B and drops it off. Seneca is still on the SE floodlight.

2:10
There is now a strong wind out of the east. Strong enough to blow my chair over.

2:15
1 juvie on the east playpen railing (not Seneca). 1 juvie on the 18th floor south side railing. 1 juvie on the SE corner of the playpen. 1 juvie on the SE floodlight. 1 juvie on the 20th NE pyramid on the 20th.

2:25
1 male juvie lands on the lilies. Then goes to launch pad – northside with both some nice flying and a nice landing.

2:30
Susan B is still on 16th NE.
Seneca is in the playpen.
1 juvie on the east launchpad.
1 juvie by the SE rocket.
Kaver on the lilies.

2:47
Zephyr and Diamante play talon tag from the tower to the stack.

2:55
Kaver takes off over the river. 1 juvie from the stack follows and chases with loops, dives and climbs. The adult goes further out over the river. The juvie comes back. I lost both behnd bldgs. Susan B and Seneca are both still in the same place.

3:10
3 juvies sighted with one each on 16, 17 and the floodlight, all on the SE.

3:30
The 17SE juvie flies loops around the tower and goes to the stack. Nice landing. Strong flight.

Hello all – Tom from Kodak here.

I posted some up close and personal pictures, mostly of Susan B., and mostly from today, here:

http://tomhoehn.1000words.kodak.com/

Let me start by saying that all is well at the Kodak Tower.  All five eyases/fledglings were accounted for when I left at 8:00 p.m.  Seneca has made her leap into the playpen and I’m sure she will fledge sometime soon.  Quest, Diamante and Zephyr are doing very well, especially Zephyr who is the guardian angel of this group.  He checks on all his siblings to make sure they’re ok.  Susan B is a little tentative about flying after her rescue yesterday.  She was seen resting on a lower building just south of the Kodak Tower.  I saw her flapping her wings and running around.  She looks well.

Zephyr has become his mom’s shadow, harrassing her every chance he gets.  He even followed her out to the communication tower south of the Kodak Tower.

I had a close encounter with Mariah and a Mourning Dove.  Mariah was flying above the High Falls Smokestack where Zephyr, Diamante and Quest were arguing over who would finish the meal supplied to Quest earlier by Mariah.  I was watching the very noisy game of tug-of-war when I spotted Mariah stoop (high speed dive) behind the building in front of me.  I looked to see where she went when I was buzzed by a very low flying Mourning Dove.  Right on the MD’s tail was Mariah, who also buzzed me.  I could hear wind whistle though her feathers, that’s how close she was.  She paid no attention to me, her sights on the Mourning Dove frantically racing to keep ahead of her.

I watched in amazement as the Mourning Dove swerved to the right, causing Mariah to break off her chase.  That was one lucky Mourning Dove!

I will forever be amazed by Mariah and Kaver’s hunting abilities.  They are truly unbelieveable.

Carol P.

There was excitement aplenty this afternoon and a daring rescue for one of the falcons! Read all about it here:
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/06/exciting-evening-for-girls.html

Jim

Just a quick post to let everyone know that all five eyases/fledglings
have been accounted for. We had missed Susan B. for most of the day,
but thankfully found her on the ground (that’s a whole other story!).
I was just so happy to have found her.

Quest is all over the place. She’s like the energizer bunny on
steroids. She is also ok after a very rocky start.

Zephyr is a PRO! He is unbelieveable.

Diamante is a lily boy. He is trying so hard to reach his dad’s
favorite spot, but has yet to make it. LOL

Then, there’s Seneca, who will know best when it is time for her to fly.

A very long and tiring day.

Carol P.

Dave and I got there just before noon. A lot of the regulars were there. Some of them were a block away watching Quest stay out of trouble…That’s someone else’s tale to tell. We saw Mariah & Kaver fly out over the gorge..looking for food or the kids. Seneca still refuses to leave the comforts of home. But she sure can scream for food. We think it was Diamante that landed on the top of the slanted roof and skied down between the A & K until he took flight again, this time with Mariah. Zephyr was on the High Falls Stack. The only one that I did not see was Susan B. Right around 1:30 everyone decided it was a good time for a nap. That’s where I left them at 2:30. It was a good watch until it rained. Good thing we were under the tent!!!!

ginha