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Finally Orville gets his own topic.

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Orville's had to learn how to stand up straight to see over the gravel pile... 8)

Well, it's about time!   :lol: (This kind of looks like a rock laughing!)  :hysterical:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8597520.stm

What Orville wants to be when he grows up.
Cute footage of penguins hauling rocks around, and after you watch it you get other links to penguin-related BBC.

Beauty's making sure everybody in the nest box is okay!
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:2funny:   :hysterical:

Orville welcomed a second new roommate its first night... it kept his beloved Beauty closer at hand...perhaps she would have more time to keep him close, too... after his first roommate moved in, he certainly had had more company, welcome after a long and lonely winter...

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Add another to the lease!  :clap:

Eggs still there? Yep! Turn the eggs? Check!

Orville still there? Yep! Turn Orville? Check!

Everyone's okay... time to people watch!

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Insert Cute Smiley Here  ;)

Beauty decided to try decorating the nest box yesterday, since she would be spending so much time here. Her first attempt, it was decided, left a little something to be desired.

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When Orville awoke this morning, they shared ideas, deciding that three was definitely better than one. If she could manage it, though, he suggested she try to get a fourth pebble up on the shelf, so none of her eggs felt left out. However, Orville loved how she put them under the view of the 'main cam'. "So realistic!", he said.

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Later on, he commented that this really was a fine arrangement. He had company, and now had some art for the walls. "It's starting to feel more like home!" :happy:

 :clap:

Life on the ranch is never dull... in the nestbox, however, things have been rather quiet for our dear friend Orville... until....

Beauty took off for her morning constitutional at 5:48, and all looked well from the Main Cam.
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However, Orville, from his ring-side seat, noticed something very amiss...
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Under cover of shift-change, one little one, eager to explore the world outside, was making a 'break' for it...
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Enter Archer, the egg-wrangler, to our rescue!

A flurry of feathers, a shuffle of wings, the wily thrust of his beak, and a flourish of his talons, and despite that little egg's best efforts...
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Archer did prevail.

"Oh, bravo, bravo!" Orville exclaimed with delight! "It was a valiant effort on both parts..."

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"But, little one," Orville whispered, as his father settled in, "if you want to see the world, hatch first!"

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Where's Orville???

He is under nestbox perch.

Has Orville pulled himself together?

I don't know-Carol reports he is on watch with everyone, so he must be feeling better

He cracked and fell to pieces! (Not that Orion had anything to do with it).  :devil:  Maybe he jumped, who knows!  (http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp154/AquarianRose/imhappyrockplz.png)

I'm sure he has a splitting headache.

 :2funny:

Orville can't be returned until later in the year when the falcons are not interested in defending the nest box. This usually happens around October through December.

Should we organise a visiting roster? Should I bring flowers? Is there a possibility of contagion? Do I need gloves? So much to ponder!

Let's face it, Orville has been Fracked for natural gas.

Orville has gone where few (if any) rocks have gone before.
One small step for rock one giant leap for rock kind.  ;)

So, is anyone fostering Orville until his return to the nest?

Carol has Orville now and if he can be so called "pieced together or cloned", he will be put back in the nest in Oct. We'll have to see if Orion gets the migration itch first, otherwise, well, you know him and his Orville!

And, finally...last, but not least

Falcon Fledge Watch - Orville Fledges! - 8/18/12

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

http://rfalconcam.com/falconwatching/?p=5005 (http://rfalconcam.com/falconwatching/?p=5005)

Orville has been resting comfortably.   :sick:  He keeps asking me how his good friend Orion is doing.   :falcon:  He really misses him.   :(  He would also like to thank all of his many fans around the world for their well wishes.   :wave:  :heart:

Carol tell him we love him and miss him. We understand when he comes home he just might have to beside himself (just more of him to love)  ;D

I told him.   :happy:

I'm looking for pictures of Orville with one or more falcons from 2010 and earlier. If you have any, please post them here.

I can do some hunting this weekend...I'm sure I have some.

I know I have some from the MK days but they were on Kodak Gallery. Lord knows where they are now. My albums are all gone and not on Shutterfly either!  :(

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/djweeds/mariahfeeds2008.jpg) See Orville?

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/djweeds/kavergrxb7.jpg)

(http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r32/djweeds/Kaveregg.jpg)  These are huge but found some.

What year did Orville show up at the nestbox?  I've got one from 2005, but not sure if that one is Orville and there are five eggs, no birds.  I can keep checking though.  Could someone tell me if Orville is here though?  I should know what he looks like by now, but.......  :stupid:

I believe Orville has always been there though I think he's changed & matured a bit over the years.

In your pic I think he migrated just out of the frame...on the bottom about 1/3 from the right.

Doing a Family Portrait, are we?

I need old pics to hang on the wall at Orville's retirement reception.

Will we have refreshments?

Coffee, soft drinks, and cake.

No Stone Soup??

Or poutine?

Why is Orville retiring?

There has been some chatter that his injuries were too severe and he might be unreleasable.

He may have to spend the rest of his days as an education rock at Wild Wings.

I don't think there's been any final decisions yet.

Orion picked him up and dropped him over the ledge, where he crashed and broke apart! Guess he wanted to see if Orville Bounced!! Carol rescued him/her and is caring for the pieces! Do we know that Orville is a male?   :devil:

Any more pictures of Orville?

The Sunday Market up on South Winton in ROC has a Poutine Stall. I never got a chance to sample it, tho. Thought it was neat to see.

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I too have been trying to remember when Orville first arrived at the nest. I think these pics include Orville,

         

          

         

Yup-just to the left edge of the scrape mound against the back wall

A quick scan through my current backup drive...I'll have more time this weekend to go back further...

The earliest photos clearly showing Orville so far is March 15, 2007...

 

...waiting patiently on the front left corner.



In this classic view he's shifted to in front of Kaver.

Have to look again to see if I can figure out who has the feather duster & Orville here



Diamante claiming Orville for his very own!

And Orville is in all these ShakyPix...not sure which years the originals are from...perhaps Shaky noted it...

   

2003

 

2004 (2003 base pic)

 

2005

     

   

2006 was a very good year for Orville sightings!

   

2007

 

2008

Except for the one you pointed out, the originals are from the year they were published. I don't have any originals prior to 2007.

I still have a backup folder on my current external drive and a whole other external drive to look through. I think the other drive has the stuff prior to 2007. It will likely have to wait until the weekend.

And the 2010 folder...and the other cams from 2008 & 2010...and there were more 2008 main cam pics-I just picked a few highlights...

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These are from Kris G.

There is something about these pictures that is so touching.  I love to see Mariah and Kaver.  I watched kodakcam or whatever it was in the early days.  Seems so ancient now.    The lattice work behind them is lovely.  I remember mention of Orville ...he's been around for a while too! 

Where is Quest in this pic?   I am thinking she is the big girl on the right, but if it was banding day, I don't see the transmitter!   Is that Quest on the right?

Hi Margaret.  Quest is in the middle of the picture lying down, snoozing.  You can just make out the transmitter antenna on her back.

This is the first of many that made ME cry that year...

I love the Orville pictures!
Thanks so much everyone!
          :thankyou: :thankyou:
                  Lola

Thanks, Carol!  Now I see it!   

I don't know if this is anywhere on the rfalconcam forum. I remember reading this in the kfalconcam board.

ORVILLE THE PEREGRINE PEBBLE
 It was written by DianaR, Kay, Pam T in VA, Alison in Austria & Elaine K in Grand Rapids

Ahhhhhhh boys and girls! The story I am about to tell you is SO fantastic, you will think it cannot be true. BUT IT IS VERY TRUE!!!
This is a story of a pebble called Orville and his VERY important and special job!
It all began in the spring of 2003, in a town called Rochester, NY, USA.
   
   Orville immediately knew that he was different -- he was    surrounded by much smaller and grayer pebbles. He was so    much larger that he stood nook and cranny above anyone else in    his home.

But Orville had not always lived in a box at the top of the Kodak Office building. He had started out as a pebble at the bottom of a river. That was as far back as he could remember, but he had heard that there was even something before that, something to do with great mountains and then boulders. There were even stories of flowing magma, but that he could hardly believe, even with the recent heat wave, he had not begun to melt. His travel to the top of a skyscraper in Rochester to live with the falcon family was an adventure in itself. He was lying there, enjoying the gentle flow of the water running along his body when a great noise disturbed his meditation. A vast yellow monster came toward him, scooping him up with a great single hand, tumbling him together with his neighbors. He did not so much mind being out in the dry air, but the fall from the hand into a metal container on the shore was a shock. Vaguely he remembered the jostling as a truck carried him far from the river he had called home into a large plant where he was shaken out and came to rest in a bin with other pebbles about his size. A period of darkness followed and after some uncertainty he found himself with his fellows riding an elevator up to the top of the office building and was transported out onto the walkway and deposited upon the floor of the nest box, and told to make like a cliff top. Many of his fellows had decreased in size during the trip and some had gone quite gray with anxiety, but Orville remained large, rounded and colorful, an eyecatcher in every respect. And he did catch Mariah's eye.

Dashed at the speed of light, in an explosion not imaginable to mere mortals, particle became atom, became molecule. Each molecule reached a point at which it fell back again to what man now calls the Sun. Some collected, formed, and orbited around the sun according to its composition. We now call them the planets. One of the planets began to cool and harden into magma, then rock. This was a very special planet which has thee ability to sustain life. No other planet in the universe can do this. Earth is the only one.
The gasses and rocks formed and reformed and vapor became water. The seas were formed. Rivers flowed from the mountains when the rain added water. As the heat and cold broke up the Cambrian rock mass, small rocks formed on land and water. One of these rocks was in a high mountain in the Adirondacks. It fell into the river one rainy spring day and was washed clean and smooth over time. Now it was a pebble.
The fish would leave their eggs on his shiny pink sides. New life! Bits of organic matter fell beside it and the other pebbles. Fish would nudge him as they fed on the organic matter. Slowly the flowing water pulled him further downstream.
One day a little boy noticed the pebble. He waded out to the shallow stream and picked it up “Hey Dad, look at this one. It’s pink, and it’s bigger than the other pebbles.” He put the pebble in his pocket to take home with him.
His father was very wise and explained to him that if he took it home, no one else would be able to enjoy the pebble. Soon the boy realized that a pebble so special should be enjoyed by everyone, not only himself. So they took a picture of the pebble (with a Kodak DX4900) and replaced it by the side of the stream.
In late fall, a truck came along and used their equipment to dig up pebbles to sell to people in the towns for pavements and gardens. The pebble was taken to Rochester where a very nice man from Kodak found it while searching for nesting material for the Kodak falcons. He carefully placed the pebble along with many others he had gathered into the nestbox high atop the Kodak tower. Mariah laid her eggs on his shiny, pink sides. New life! Bits of organic matter were again dropped on and around it. Later the rain washed it clean again.
As people watched Mariah and Kaver’s eggs become eyases and fledges leaving the nestbox, they noticed the pebble. “It’s pink and bigger than the rest. What a lovely pebble. Let’s call it Orville”, they said. It seemed lonely in the nestbox after the falcons left. But it wasn’t. Everyone knew what Mariah and Kaver would soon be back to start another brood with Orville there to help.

   Orville, being bigger than his fellow pebbles, caught the    attention of a fierce falcon named Mariah. Mariah was pushing    the pebbles around, making a place for her eggs. Orville was so    big, even Mariah thought he might be a falcon egg and placed    Orville in the nest. This was observed by people watching the    nest through cameras. Many got excited thinking that Mariah       had started her family. Orville was soon joined by real falcon       eggs. They were also pink and smooth, but even bigger than    Orville. Orville didn’t mind having brothers and sisters. It    meant that he was covered by Mariah and her mate, Kaver, as t   hey incubated the eggs. The spring was cold and Orville was    glad to be warm and dry instead of cold and covered by snow    like the other pebbles.
   
   
..... "Gee, if only somebody would roll me into the sun, maybe I'd hatch TOO!"
"Farewell my brothers and sister. I was glad to have been a pillow and part of the Fab 5 Gang, even if only for a while."
   "Seeya next year, everybody?"
 
OT Orville and writers
Yes, Kay, I am a wri.ter - among other things - but unfortunately I'm getting ready for vacation and have several of my newsletters to write and get in place before I leave, plus I am editing a book that a friend is writing, so I can't do anything with The Story of Orville, the Peregrine Pebble, at this time. I looks as if plenty of other people are adding their bit, so the truth about Orville may eventually be told. (He's not part of the Canadian conspiracy that we learned about last year, is he? Or... is he....? Hmmmmm)

Orville... what a grand rock he was, and now to be prompting all these great memories of Mariah and Kaver and the clan.

I hope I didn't miss his retirement reception... please give him my regards.  :happy:

Linda - thanks SO much for posting that! I'd never seen it!

I'd never seen that one either, good ole Orville  :happy:

i LOVE this!  Had never seen it either!

Great story about Orville.I found this pic don't know if it was posted already.



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Sorry,was already posted on 20-11!
I do love this one!

I'm sure Oeville has had many adventures since 2003. Maybe some of our talented, imaginative members would like to continue His Saga...

Thank you for posting this Linda! I have seen it before but there's a LOT of notes to go through on Kfalconcam to find it.  I'm glad you had it saved 'cause I sure didn't!

 :clap:

I didn't have it saved. It was more of a ... I read some of his story somewhere.. start searching .. It was in the FILE section.  Just do a little copy&paste.

Great story about Orville's life.
Thanks so much everyone for telling it.  Did
Orville ever pose for an official picture? 
Hope so.
           :cheerleader: :yippee: :cheerleader:
                     Hugs, Lola

Okay, so we have Quest and Diamante. Can anyone tell us who the rest of the birds are in these two pictures?

Bottom pic-Seneca on left, Zephyr back left, Quest, Diamanté and Susan B. on right.

None of the pics I have from the surrounding times gives me a clue who is who except Zephyr on the left.

Orville 2006...

       

He's been there through the heartwarming and the heartbreaking   :crying:

         

       
          MINE!                        MAAAA!!!! Rhea Mae wants to eat Orville! I'll protect you Orville!

                                             Sabrina (Valiant) Rhea Mae & Aura

Orville 2007...a few repeats to keep the years together...

               

              

Orville started the year up front...hard to see him there...
Also, please note where Quest gets the white feathers on the back of her head!

                 

Grace and Linn try to look disinterested as Ananta and Sacajawea consult Orville on whether to move to the perch



Orville must have told Ananta to go for it!

Orville 2010...

 

Cuddling with Orville

   
Even Archer & Beauty discuss who gets Orville!

The only thing she didn't eat.

So you saying that she was a big eater?

No, that would be an understatement.

Go eat some poutine and stop picking on Rhea Mae.  :nono:

I wasn't watching back then-just have heard bits and pieces about Mariah being hurt and some eyases dying.  Maybe sometime somebody could tell the story of 2006.

Looks like the same clump of feathers Quest has in her mouth...one more ID'd! Thanks nycbird!

Oh man, May was quite a month in 2006!  :crying:

A year that started with so much sadness, but ended with 3 glorious fledglings, a healthy Mariah and superdad Kaver.  A year I will never forget.   :heart:

Here's a picture I found from 2005 showing Mariah and Orville.   :happy:

Look at her!  :heart:

:wub: miss her, wonder where she is and how she is doing

Me, too, BC - love that face! :christhumbs:

Yup. We all wonder! And I guess that is the point... the "Wonder".

Great Poem Joyce ,it says it all.
I can live with that !

Yup, that about sums it up!  :clap:

Well done, Joyce!

 :clap:

Joyce, your hilarious poem made my morning!  :bunny:

Dot in PA

Joyce is a Po-et and she don't Know-et ;D

Excellent, Joyce! Thanks!

Good one, Joyce!

 :clap: