Poor sweet baby

Quest, the day she fledged

Quest on top; Seneca below

I hope the Daniele family is reading this thread.

Exactly, right, Shaky!

What a touching tribute for mama eagle.  Very respectful.  Her life and her passing should be noted

BigFrank, thank you and thank you to Ann!!!  Beautiful!  These are some of the closest photos we have seen since Quest was on the Cape!

Congratulations, Donna!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's to more!!!!!

I'm with you. Donna
 Those eaglets are really cute.

   Frank it was a thrill for me to meet you and the CPF gang. It made me feel important rubbing elbows with all of you. I too, have gone places and done things I never thought I would. There is a bond we all share...our love for falcons and nature! I started out as a lurker on the forum during Mariah and Kavers last brood and now I go on a falcon watch practically every day! They have DEFINITELY inspired me out of a low spot in my life! And a bonus of making many very good friends. 

MAK, you are pretty awesome too!

I just found this on google:

BigFrank, could this be a Canadian bird?

Jeanne



Greetings all,

OK - after getting past the technical difficulties, I finally got this posted.

ibis.MOV

I also have a few stills which I may post when I get time. The time stamp on the stills indicates that the falcon was harassing the ibis for over 10 minutes, including landing within feet of the ibis and having staring matches. As a group, we had assumed the match was a stalemate until the "event" took place.

When we left the refuge around 4:30, we also saw a harrier take off from the kill site, apparently the local raptors enjoy "foreign food".

The class had a great day with over 70 species in addition to the excitement.

Mike
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Michael Blust
Professor of Biology
Green Mountain College
Poultney, VT 05764
802-287-8331
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From: Deb La Roy [mailto:(email address filtered)]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:49 PM
To: (email address filtered); Michael Blust
Subject: White-faced Ibis demise - correction and addendum

A big thank you to Dr. Michael Blust, Professor of Biology at Green Mountain College in POULTNEY, VT and to his class of ornithology students for sharing the pictures and video of the one-eyed Peregrine Falcon taking out the White-faced Ibis. All of the birdwatchers loved being able to share the wonderful video of this amazing event. Acording to Dr Blust, it took about 5 minutes for the Peregrine to subdue the Ibis, drowning the Ibis.

What a wonderful sighting for this college ornithology class!

The Peregrine Falcon had two leg bands, one silver USFWS band on right leg (too far to get a band number) and a green band with the number 38 on the left leg.

Keep a lookout for this Peregrine on Plum Island. It is easily distinguished by the blind left eye and the green leg band.

On the way out of the Parker River Wildlife Refuge, Liz Southworth and I spotted the Peregrine sitting on a log just north of the salt pannes. We stopped to look and in addition to the Peregrine Falcon, there was a Northern Harrier on the ground, about 10 feet closer to the road then the falcon. The Northern Harrier was feeding on a carcass of what was likely the White-faced Ibis. Unfortunately, we only saw the wing and part of the body of this carcass and did not see the head so could not confirm it was the Ibis being eaten by the Harrier. Once the Harrier flew off, the Peregrine came down to the carcass to feed once again before flying off with a bulging crop.

Go raptors!

I think the laughter was nervous shock.  They were watching birds, the ibis is rare and all of a sudden, smack, here comes the falcon.  It reminded me of when a baby mourning dove landed on Carol P.'s car one year.  She was getting her rescue box cause this was right across from Kodak and she didn't want M/K to get the bird.  As she was thinking this, in came M/K. 

Jane, how do you know the falcon is blind in one eye?  Wonder who this falcon is?

jeanne

I agree!!!  You all are awesome!

We should have equipped Quest with something on that transmitter that could spray water to offenders

I feel sad that now he has lost his whole family.  I am surprised that they didn't wait to see if dad could do it all. 

Do we know who the 4th falcon to get a transmitter is? 

Mary Ann, Skye, Hafoc and Quest.

duh, Kris, I kept looking at the first three and wondering who #4 was!  I think I have to wonder where my brain is

Thanks, Ei, I just lit a candle as well

Do we know who the 4th falcon to get a transmitter is?