CHATTANOOGA — Lookout, the fledgling Rock City peregrine falcon, is just what his name says: He's a wanderer. Satellite telemetry already has tracked Lookout in a clockwise loop through four states, said falconer and ornithologist John Stokes. He raised Lookout and his brother Chatty in a hacking box on a bluff in Bill Chapin's Rock City backyard. The falcons made their first flights from that box July 11.

After hanging around the hacking box for a few days, Lookout struck out looking for adventure and a bit of good hunting, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

"He went to Cloudland Canyon, then he turned to the north and went to Lawrence and Dickson, Tenn.," Stokes said. "He stayed a night near Cookeville (Tenn.), then he circled back to the hacking box and then took off toward Dalton and Rome, Georgia."

"Then he flew to Gadsden in Alabama and then into Mississippi. The last report we had he was in Grenada Lake in Mississippi. We first thought he was headed for the Gulf Coast, but Grenada Lake seems to be occupying him right now," Stokes said.

Grenada Lake is about halfway between Memphis and Jackson, Miss.

Less is known about the wanderings of Chatty and another falcon brother, Bruce, who was released a week earlier than his siblings from the roof of the First Tennessee building downtown.

Both birds were wearing regular radio transmitter tracking devices glued to their tail feathers. And both made short work of those ‘Big Brother' tattles — they plucked out the trailing wires, tail feather and all.

Stokes said some reported sightings indicate Chatty is hanging around Rock City, but Bruce hasn't been seen for a while.

"I found Bruce's transmitter and tail feather on the roof of one of the BlueCross buildings," Stokes said. "I think that tells us that next time, even for the radio transmitters, we might use a backpack like Lookout has. That seems to be working fine."

Lookout's backpack holds a solar satellite transmitter equipped with GPS. The gear cost about $4,000 and weighs only 22 grams, considerably less than a tenth of a pound.

Stokes' wife, Dale Kernahan, is tracking Lookout.

"This will be the first time this solar tracking has been applied to a peregrine falcon in the South," Kernahan has said. "Up in the Arctic, these birds are known to travel all the way down to Colombia, but there's never been a study done before on a Southern peregrine falcon."

The falcon's track is being added to Rock City's website so the public can keep up with Lookout.

Stokes and Kernahan operate a nonprofit birding organization known as Save Our American Raptors-South, SOAR South for short. They blog regularly on the SOAR South website, updating Lookout's track and sightings on the other falcons.

Last week the two obtained a breeding male peregrine, hoping that next year they may be able to provide peregrine falcon eggs and fledglings.

Stokes and Kernahan already have a breeding female, Bonnie, who cannot be released to the wild because she has only one eye.

"Maybe next spring we'll have some eggs," Stokes said.

AJC

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Cinnamon is back again!  7:13PM...

Shoot, missed him. Caught RM and maybe T?

OK, phooey, thought I was on a HOT trail!!! Wine Cellar!!! Your writing room??   Kitty Litter Room?  We know you love cats but they like it hot! (How long can this go on?) Bomb shelter?

It goes well with S2

Gemert, August 7, 2011

S2 is doing well and actually has little to report.
She sits quietly in her residence (HxWxD 90x60x60) which is shielded by a white blind. This residence is a site where they perch quietly spends her days. The blind should not let them get stimulated by outside influences.
It gets a bit monotonous but still eats well, is quiet and seemingly has no problems with her wing and fixation. It therefore remains hopeful but X-rays must have three weeks more clarity on a full recovery.
If the radiographs show well-repaired cracks, the pins are removed at a later date. After removal of the pins and their fixation on her condition she will have to go over and then bring us back into the wild. S2 will basically get her freedom back to where she was found, it would not be in the vicinity of the tower are the mortar. Crow flies, it is a piece of nothing and the tower from here at altitude visible.
Then she stands for a new challenge in her life, she returns to the tower in De Mortel?
If so, then she will have to enter into a confrontation with her compatriot and is it still appeals to her husband Pa? Exciting times for all parties, both for the peregrine falcons and for many visitors to our website where the images refresh to see and visitors to the various forums. But also for visitors to the field spotters and the immediate vicinity of the tower of the mortar. They will then be "live" report on the operations of S2, Pa and B / Y.
But that is not yet, we will in the coming weeks and have to wait or S2 completely recovers and then indicate when they are released.

This week we visited the asylum keeper, and we make some pictures and a video of the environment where S2 now resides. We publish these photos and then the video on this website. Since S2 is now stable and quiet to recover from her injuries, we will not be every 2 to 3 days post a message. Once a week we will post you have S2 or when appropriate for a further interim report on this site.

(movie) Camera Crusin!

Must be cold there. I wonder where it could be.

The clock works, has hearts on the door, I see a monitor...it's our time, soooo, is it your LOVE shack?     S for Shaky on the door!!! Hmmm! Maybe it's the door to outside TS!! I JUST DON'T KNOW!! The 43 degrees throws me off, unless you like it cold!!  

OH but the time on the screen is 4 hour difference. Did you leave a camera setup in Alaska????

OH SWEET CINNAMON!! Good catch! Was wondering where he was! THANKS!!

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Is that from your own book your "STILL" working on? 

Have you looked at streaming video channel 3 lately?

No, I hadn't...what, pray tell, are we watching?  Other than a teaser for our S%$& lovers of course...

Me LIKES!!!

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[BARABOO — When the effort to restore a second North American flock of migrating whooping cranes started in 2000, nobody could foresee that something as tiny as a black fly could disrupt reintroduction of the large, endangered birds.]

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BARABOO — When the effort to restore a second North American flock of migrating whooping cranes started in 2000, nobody could foresee that something as tiny as a black fly could disrupt reintroduction of the large, endangered birds.

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http://www.arkive.org/suriname-toad/pipa-pipa/video-00.html  OH and EW!! How does that happen? This gave me the heebs!!

http://www.arkive.org/osprey/pandion-haliaetus/video-09b.html I like this one too, listen to the sounds the babies make. I never knew this.