[Happy Birthday Carla!]

Happy Birthday Carla! Remember..next time!  

And on the same theme...Home Depot Duck...

http://www.koco.com/family/28108947/detail.html#ixzz1OBpmcEFA

Ahhhh, so cute! Thanks Ei

A peregrine falcon perched on a beam at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor Wednesday while another falcon soared through the air nearby. The bridge is home to a pair of the birds and their chicks. (Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority)

This is beautiful! The setting sun shone down Manhattan’s 42nd Street late Monday in the biannual event known as �Manhattanhenge,� when the setting sun aligns itself with the city’s east-west grid and shines down all gridded streets at the same time.

A bird of prey - thought to be a peregrine falcon or a buzzard - was rescued from the River Thames by police officers and an RNLI lifeboat crew this week.

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5324 story and pics

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/BP/20110603/NEWS01/106030325/Tonga-fends-off-banding?odyssey=nav|head story and pics

[This evening the monitoring camera was cooperating and the young were out of the corner, so here's a shot of that. As you can see they're getting pretty big, and no doubt this will continue until they reach full size. In the next few days I'll post my calculations on when first flights may take place, but there is still a bit of time before that happens.In somewhat related news, Jack's other family at Bloor and Islington got banded today, two gals and one boy. Their names are Skye, Hera and Jupiter. Kathy over there thought they only had two so it's cool that they got a bit of a surprise today.]

Three eyases were banded this afternoon at Etobicoke Sun Life - Jack and Angel's kids!  They all weighed 700 grams....so they had to measure feet and determined 2 were girls and 1 was male but because he was tougher to determine, he's wearing female bands..just in case.  They were named Skye, Hera and Jupiter. 

Small girls for Angel compared to past years but all looked and 'sounded' quite healthy 

Congratulations! Does Jack have any eyases with the "other female"?

This evening the monitoring camera was cooperating and the young were out of the corner, so here's a shot of that. As you can see they're getting pretty big, and no doubt this will continue until they reach full size. In the next few days I'll post my calculations on when first flights may take place, but there is still a bit of time before that happens.

In somewhat related news, Jack's other family at Bloor and Islington got banded today, two gals and one boy. Their names are Skye, Hera and Jupiter. Kathy over there thought they only had two so it's cool that they got a bit of a surprise today.   YUP!!

Well hey, colour me frustrated, to put it mildly. Fortunately I am putting it mildly because compounded by unrelated technical issues I could swear a blue streak right now but frankly, who might be listening anyways.

Around noon today, I was treated to a glorious few moments of monitoring cam footage, in which I clearly saw two juveniles. A moment later, I saw what could easily have resembled four juveniles, and given I can't see sweet @#$% all with any certainty, who knows what's up there.

At this point, we've abandoned plans to band based on a now inaccurate notion that there was only one juvenile to band. We clearly have at least two, perhaps more. I have put a call in with the MNR to determine what influence this new information may have on banding, and I've also asked if someone from the MNR could come stick their head over the edge of the roof so we could gain some certainty on this saga. I'll let you know how that works out as soon as I know more.

Update - well that was quick. The banding plan will remain as planned - if a bird comes to ground it gets banded. I don't foresee anyone will be coming here to see what we have on the ledge either.

I don't think they can totally blame her age. As we have first hand knowledge a lot of nests did not do well this year for some reason.

ps her energy was expended laying the eggs not sitting on them. jmo

A lot has happened this season with eggs! For sure.

Ans she's always looking out over the ledge!

That is the cutest video. Poor Harlequin, thought dad was going to feed him/her. Hey, he tried. Practice Kendal, you'll get it. Thanks for this. 

I did watch her go over to the left corner of the nest box earlier to pooh on the wall. I was so busy watching her, I forgot to capture Harlequins pic! 

Stunning pictures of island where penguins have created the world's largest crèche.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1393379/King-Penguin-colony-South-Georgia-Stunning-pictures-worlds-largest-cr-che.html YIKES, how does one find their kid in this? Awesome pics.

South Georgia Penguins.

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Living/Outdoors/article/14534/hopes-fade-for-lady-of-the-lowes-latest-eggs.html Nice article about Lady  but sad.

Love the pics, especially the 1st and 3rd. Thanks Bonnie. Good luck little ones, don't get in trouble.

Ahh! So it is Cindy! I checked her website (see her profile) - what amazing creations!

Her quilts are awesome. Such talent.

Yep, Donna - far too long! It would have been a record-breaker, but for me now, the main thing is the continued health of The Lady - I am so much in awe of her, and we may not see another year. This one was such a gift. They were hoping to do transmitters for some of the young, but that will not happen, I fear.

1 year made such a difference. She did well for her age and if it's not meant to be, then it's not. I just feel bad when they incubate the eggs for so long and nothing hatches. Breaks my heart. Poor Lady.