Now look at that pretty purple band!

By MAK

https://plus.google.com/photos/105852657168785204361/albums/5710947985173171665?banner=pwa Polly's last nesting site.

Thanks Kris

Wow is that just a drop off from the nest box? If so I pray the babies stay back!!! 

Amazing how we worry huh?

I know you say be patient but its been a week. There should be some news by now. geeze

come on is she healing or getting worse.


(I wish she was with Marge in Wisconsin)

  

I wish she was in my backyard!!

Algo et Polly, les rejetons de Spirit et Rogers, nés en 2009, ont maintenant un tout nouveau nichoir à l'échangeur Turcot. C'est la compagnie Services Environnementaux Faucons (SEF), en collaboration avec le Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune et Transports Québec (MTQ) qui a procédé à la construction et à l'installation du nichoir. Ce dernier est sur la pile J-4, soit une pile au "nord" de la pile où leur premier nid était situé l'an passé. Après une tentative de nidification ratée en 2011, on espère que 2012 leur apportera des fauconneaux en santé. Merci à Marilou G. Skelling (SEF) pour la photo du nichoir.

Algo and Polly, the offspring of Spirit and Rogers, born in 2009, now have a brand new box at the Turcot interchange. This is the company Falcon Environmental Services (FES) in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife and Transportation (MTQ) who carried out the construction and installation of the box. The latter is on the stack J-4, a battery "north" of the pile where their first nest was located last year. After a failed nesting attempt in 2011, it is hoped that 2012 will bring them healthy falcons. Thank you to Marilou G. Skellig (SEF) for the photo of the box.

Way to go Polly!! What a nice nest too! Shouldn't there be a guard in front?  

Posted by Eve Bélisle at 5:40 p.m.

Great pic on the City of R fb page.

Look at Mercury!

Looks like it was taken from the top of the old Changing Scenes Restaurant.  Nice!   

Yeah I thought it was taken way up some place!! Cool view. Would love to have an office up there. A falcon-watching office, that is!!

Great pic on the City of R fb page.

Look at Mercury!

[Rochester Buildings.]

Here is a link that lists Rochester Buildings.  In addition to Dumpsterkitty's Rochester Landmarks Map (see other topic), this can be used as a reference for the various buildings our Rochester Falcons land on.
 
http://www.emporis.com/city/rochester-ny-usa/all-buildings

Good to have for reference Joyce...thanks!

Had the cam up too!! Missed it. Thanks so much Kat!!

  Sunshine & Welcome

I am thinking of getting the brain of a hummingbird... might mean I do not to keep praying to St Anthony and paying him if he finds things... which (quite spookily!) he always does...

Funny, I read that with need in it! How the mind works! 

So your mind is already the size of a hummingbird's, huh, D-G?!

We won't go there! 

I am thinking of getting the brain of a hummingbird... might mean I do not to keep praying to St Anthony and paying him if he finds things... which (quite spookily!) he always does...

Funny, I read that with need in it! How the mind works! 

  Today is Brian's prediction of Archer's return! We'll see.

http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/120221.html

London - They may be tiny, but hummingbirds have a huge memory, researchers have found.

Their hippocampus – the area of the brain responsible for learning and memory – is up to five times bigger than that in songbirds, seabirds and woodpeckers.

This might explain why hummingbirds are such skilled foragers.

The birds can remember where every flower in their territory is and how long it takes to refill with nectar after they have fed.

A team led by Dr Andrew Iwaniuk, of the University of Lethbridge in Canada, dissected hummingbird brains and found their hippocampus showed an “exceptional� memory.

Their study is published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. - Daily Mail