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The Buffalo cams are back up today, with the addition of a third cam showing an outside view of the ledge.

Can't read the bands, but I hope this is Yankee.

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http://www.buffalo.edu/falconcam.html (http://www.buffalo.edu/falconcam.html)

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Ralphie (W/84 from 2014)  from Toronto Sheraton has been ID'd as the new tiercel at Statler City.  Terka over at BCAW got a nice photo of him with his bands this morning.  I called Tracy Simpson (CPF) who just ID'd him for me.!!

So it's Rhea Mae and Tiago's boy!!!!!

Edit to add:  another branch to add to the family tree Kitty!  :wub:

Grandson of Mariah & Kaver and Erin & Windwhistler!   :wub:

Such great news!!!   :yahoo:

More fun!!!!! Thanks Carly!!   :wub:

Dixie and Yankee have their first egg! Just caught a glimpse of part of the egg, which was immediately covered again.

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The egg this morning, as Dixie left to take a break:

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Good news!  I wish I could get this cam.

The cam doesn't work for me in Firefox. It will only work for me in IE, and even then, it will run for a minute or two and then stop. At that point I have to go out of the site and back in to get it to work again.

I don't know if that will work for you, but it might possibly be worth a try.

I can get it on IE in my craft area computer downstairs but I spend 90% of my time on my iPad and that's Safari.

They're reporting 5 eggs for Yankee and Dixie!  :clap:

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YIKES!!!    :thumbsup:

BCAW poster Sally reporting a pip has been seen in one of the eggs at UB!!

         I wondered if they shouldn't be hatching by now..can't get the cam.

You use firefox? You can only see it with internet explorer or windows media player 11.

Some serious concerns about the health of both Dixie and Yankee apparently, Peregrine Place has just posted about it as viewers have seen them both panting heavily and not incubating at times:  

https://www.facebook.com/PeregrinePlaceWNY/ (https://www.facebook.com/PeregrinePlaceWNY/)

Oh my, that sounds bad for all concerned. 

I'm watching the cam at home now and they are right, Dixie doesn't look good...very strange behavior.  It's like she is in a trance, standing there with mouth gaping, eyes closed...looks like she is trying to focus.

       😢

Yankee came to relieve Dixie and she took off like a shot.  He seems fine in comparison, very alert..no panting yet that I can see.  He's tight on eggs right now...will keep watching.

Posted on FB-

NEWS ALERT: UB The DEC has just informed me that it is accepted that the eggs are no longer viable and they will be removed from the box.and  sent to a lab for analysis. It is being planned for tomorrow if everything else is completed today.

Our DEC had to coordinate with UB, the head Wildlife Mgr, get permission from  the Albany DEC  and the USFWS in Cortland. Nothing could be done before that.

Of course this is very sad for us but at least the birds will no longer have to keep incubating non-viable eggs. The nest box will be checked to try and determine the cause of this year’s problems. I will post any information as it come in.

On a good note for our Peregrine watchers, we have the great Statler cam to follow and I think there is a crack in one egg which I’ve seen to the left.

Hope they find out whatever was causing the adults to appear overheated while incubating in the box..a sad ending to another season for this great pair.  :'(

UB eggs have been removed.

Friends in NY wanted to see how Defiant (Peregrine Falcon) is doing. Here she is - almost done with her molt and looking pretty!

BB (now known as Defiant) hatched at the Whittier Apartments in Detroit in 2007. She nested in NY at the University of Buffalo and Richardson Towers. She is now an education bird in Arizona. Looking good BB/Defiant!

Feel bad for her but at least she is alive!! She does look great!  :heart:

Poor Defiant (BB) is in the peregrine Witness Protection Program, I guess.  I'm glad she's doing well.  She does look kind of thin, though. 

She does look thin..nothing in that crop.  :(

 :heart:

 :wub: Be well BB.

Just posted to Peregrine Place a few minutes ago...RIP Sweet Dixie  :crying: :crying: :crying:

I am so sad. This is a bad week for us in Buffalo. Grab your tissues before reading on. Our Dixie, Yankee's mate at UB was in a stoop for a pigeon this afternoon, but struck a car instead. This happened at Bailey and Winspear. I was there twice today, seeing Yankee tucked into a corner near the cornices to stay warm, but Dixie was not in view. She could have been in the box though. I came back from Central Terminal, going through Bailey and Winspear probably just before Dixie tragic event. Connie will have her mounted at some point.

Oh my!  Oh poor Dixie!  Reminds me of Unity.  She and Yankee sure have been through a lot.  I hope he finds a new mate soon.    :(

Oh no! Not Dixie! She is very precious, and Dixie and Yankee have been such a great pair.

What a terrible day.  :crying:  :crying:  :crying:

           Fly free, Dixie. :sorrow:

 :crying: I am beside my self! Fly Free Dixie!

Joyce and I were there today and missed this tragedy by mere minutes. Such sad news to add to the sadness of Diamante being injured yesterday.  :crying:

Fly free Dixie. You will be missed.  :( :heart:

Oh no, how sad!!  Fly free sweet Dixie  :(

Suzanne in Ithaca

For what it's worth, the Buffalo cams are back online. I wish this had happened some time ago, so that we could have seen Dixie and Yankee together at the nest. Now, with the tragic loss of Dixie, it is much too late.

It bothers me that for the last two years of her life, Dixie was deprived of raising chicks. In 2015, her chicks were taken from her due to renovations at the heating plant, and this year possible toxins from something used in that construction may perhaps have been the reason that none of her nine eggs hatched.  :(

No one was at the nest when I checked. This is one of the cam sites which only worked in IE (and just barely). I just tried it in IE and Firefox (version 50.1.0) and it worked in both.

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http://www.buffalo.edu/falconcam.html (http://www.buffalo.edu/falconcam.html)

Me too Alison. So sad.  :(

 :crying:

New unbanded female at nest bowing to Yankee this morning, I posted some photos to Peregrine Place just now.  Her legs bare and I got enough of his band to positively ID him.  Both still there now, she's peeking around the corner.

Edit to add:  I wonder if they are sure the female they picked up was Dixie?  This female looks like Dixie - they both have a heart shape on the side... I'd need more photos to be sure but she's awfully 'at home' here for a newbie and she was scraping too.

9.02 am and I just caught 'her' and Yankee smooching with open beaks.

Hmm, interesting!  :confused0083:

After Yankee flew off over the open area, the female stayed. She is still at the nest. I have been watching too, and saved some pics. Will post some a little later.

No bands visible:

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Great news out of Buffalo- "Note from DEC: " Dixie didn't turn out to be dead after all. The dead bird ended up being a big Cooper's hawk."
So our Dixie is alive!"

 :yahoo: :clap: :2thumbsup: :abs-cheers: :yippee: :phew:

Wow, MAK! Such incredible news! Best news of the month. I thought the female looked a lot like Dixie, but really didn't dare to hope it would be her.

So happy for her and for Yankee. Sad for the Cooper's hawk.

Better Cooper's Hawk as Dixie.

 :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

 goodnews: goodnews:

Such wonderful news!  :clap:

People need to know a hawk a pigeon.......from a FALCON!!!! Not the first time this has happened!!

Great news, now we can whistle "Dixie" again!!   :whistle: :wub:

Falcon?

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 :hysterical: Shaky.......exactly!!!

(http://i66.tinypic.com/2a85gty.jpg) One in the sun!

This was mistaken for a falcon many moons ago.  :2funny:

Falcon?

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Sattler Erica is being seen daily at Humber Bay, Canada, Hunting on ice. 

Erica is a 2016 hatch from Statler. Ann B sent the pics taken by Sean Von Dogner

Humber bay is 30 minutes from Ann's house!!  :2thumbsup: 
Hope she stays a while!

She's a beauty! Good to see food in her crop!!!  :clap:

Thank you Alison, she's lovely  :heart: :heart: :heart:

She's gorgeous! So happy to see a young one doing well. Thanks for posting Donna.  :2thumbsup:

Yankee and Dixie together at the renovated nest on February 5. They left together immediately thereafter.

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The site appears to be down yesterday and today.

Yankee, showing his bands:

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Dixie:

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Dixie supervises while Yankee works on the scrape:

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 :clap: :thanx:

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