[$ 21,000]

from Brian: Downtown report from Broad St Bridge, no falcons on KO, FCT, TS, COP ANT, MERC, OCSR.

(Where are you Beauty)?

Probably headed out of town because of all the commotion that's going to happen tonight! 

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120206/NEWS01/302060020?source=twitter-dandc

It won't do much to make the Snowy feel welcome either.

Are you serious.... $ 21,000 just to scare away the crows??? Come on Beauty do your civic duty! Did anyone hear it on the cams? I had mine muted, forgot to unmute!

It has been moved to 10 PM.

OK thanks!

Just saw on Channel 13 News that tonite the USDA would be starting to attempt to oust the Crows roosting in downtown Rochester.  They're going to start in the Cornhill area, which is just south of the Times Square Bldg.  They'll be using loud sounds, pyrotechnics, lasers and other things. 

They were reporting live from the area and said that 1,000's of Crows were already there, swirling overhead.  They say the downtown Crow roost population is approx. 20,000. 

This is supposed to start between 10 and 11 pm tonite.  We will probably be able to hear it on the live streaming video. 

http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/City-To-Begin-Scaring-Away-Crows/rWujC1KV4U-DIEs6F_grBg.cspx

I posted this earlier on the Twitter thread.  It's going to go on every night for 5 nights!

Good grief!! $$ well spent! NOT!!

Kelly Corbett on fb posted this and wanted to know if it was a Merlin or a Falcon? She saw it this afternoon on the antenna of Inn on Broadway bldg.

I thought juvie falcon???

 It headed due West toward the old Midtown Bldg. 4:45 pm today

[$ 21,000]

from Brian: Downtown report from Broad St Bridge, no falcons on KO, FCT, TS, COP ANT, MERC, OCSR.

(Where are you Beauty)?

Probably headed out of town because of all the commotion that's going to happen tonight! 

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120206/NEWS01/302060020?source=twitter-dandc

It won't do much to make the Snowy feel welcome either.

Are you serious.... $ 21,000 just to scare away the crows??? Come on Beauty do your civic duty! Did anyone hear it on the cams? I had mine muted, forgot to unmute!

[Lovely Woodpecker Aafke and gee as always, I CHEAT!!! Can't help it, too impatient. Thanks.]

Lovely Woodpecker Aafke and gee as always, I CHEAT!!! Can't help it, too impatient. Thanks. 

From BCAW and Kris G!


 OK Norfolk Dad, pick ONE! The mods were talking last night about Dad and this situation. I think it may be like goldilocks and the three bears LOL?? One too cold, one too hot, and finally one just right? LOL the only bad thing is they said Dad may not have had a strong bond with ANY of them since that takes time, and he went from one to another. It could play out that he does not create a big enough bond with any of these females, and has to find a new one altogether. Hopefully if that happens, he can do it before egg laying time is up. They said we could end up with NO eggs this season if he cant choose in time. Also, with so many 5 yr olds around the garden right now, there will be more fighting between eagles and nests happening. This situation has thrown us a real curve ball, anything can happen including what happened at the West End nest a few years back - 2 females on the same nest! So expect anything to happen, and yet it is all very exciting.

I saw a news article saying that WVEC/DGIF commented that with the original pair, being territorial, they kept other eagles AWAY from the garden and airport, and the present situation seemed to be drawing MORE eagles to the area. In light of the present DGIF and airport discussions regarding the hazards of eagles/plane strikes, this is of concern to them...but their article as before, kind of says there is nothing they will do about it, i.e. push for nest to be removed, or eagles. So why do they even have to put all this out there, the DGIF/Airport people? Just to stir the brew and cause drama?

Anyway, lets hope Dad finds his true love. This is so much a flashback to Pale Male after Lola's death, it is shocking/amazing? to see it happen to Dad.

from Brian: Downtown report from Broad St Bridge, no falcons on KO, FCT, TS, COP ANT, MERC, OCSR.

(Where are you Beauty)?

~ From an Eagle's View ~

Have you ever wondered what it's like to fly free,
To see the world as far as the eye can see,
To view the surroundings from high and from low,
To hear only the sound of a distant echo,
To float in the air with the wind being your guide,
To admire many rainbows that the trees tend to hide,
To see the misty mornings over a beautiful mountaintop,
To glide over a flowing river that never seems to stop,
To watch the animals from over a mile away,
Or to rise above the treetops that glisten in the day?
If you were an eagle you would wonder no more,
For it can see things you have never seen before.
Next time you look into the sky of blue,
Think of what it's like from an eagle's view.

~ Author, Stacy Smith 

So maybe it was only the 2 and not 3? Was 3 ever spotted at the same time? Oy, the plot may thicken. A purple band again. It's pretty quiet now on the cam but we'll see what the day brings. Thanks Dana, great pics of the Snowy and male falcon.

So far it's been a quiet morning, not even a Beauty showed up! Hmmm

Still very quiet out there, considering yesterday's events! I have nothing to post! 

[This year, the two-foot-tall bird, made famous by the Harry Potter series, brings birders out in full force because of the usually high number, an estimated five to 10, spotted citywide]

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=199692 

This year, the two-foot-tall bird, made famous by the Harry Potter series, brings birders out in full force because of the usually high number, an estimated five to 10, spotted citywide

By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
I'll let my pictures and report in this KGallery explain what we saw this weekend. So many things happened the visit by a pair of Peregrines to downtown Rochester today and a visit with a Snowy Owl in Downtown Rochester. It doesn't get much better than that.
Thanks for the assist...

Link:
http://rfalconcam.com/falconwatching/?p=3794

Awesome pics Carol, I still can't sign into Kodak. UGH!! So, what do we know abut this pair? Nada but so many possibilities. Thanks for running around today!

Nest location:
On the grounds of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's NCTC (National Conservation Training Center) -- on the Potomac River near Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Shep is the new male this year. We wish them well.

Belle (female)
Shep (male)

1st egg today

http://outdoorchannel.com/Conservation/EagleCam.aspx cam

Eagle Eggs
Posted by Lisa in Eagle Cam, eggs
We’re about ten days away from the possible hatching of our first egg. As we mentioned on the cam page, our parents went through a brief period where they seemed agitated by something outside the nest (maybe another eagle). They spent some time off the eggs, and we have to assume that it was not long enough to hurt the eggs’ development.

Then on January 31, the male brought in a meal to the nest (almost all meals to this point had been eaten away from the nest that contained eggs), but rather than hand it off to the female, he mantled over it and then gave her some when he was done. This is the kind of behavior we’ve seen on the Osprey Cam nest when a new male was at the nest or when the couple — which had spent the winter apart — we’re just beginning to bond again for the breeding season. It isn’t the kind of behavior we expected to see with a male eagle that had already helped bring about two eggs with our female. So we’re not sure what was going on, but we haven’t seen this behavior again.

Cam watchers have asked about the size and color of the eggs. The blog from the Center for Conservation Biology reports that the eggs are oval (about the size of a tennis ball) and 4.3-4.5 ounces.

Back maybe for the last time. She's probably up on the wing for the night. Can't blame her.