Archer waiting his turn?
Beauty says no way, it's raining.

A new update has been posted.
With pics!!

AWWW!!!!!   

  I know right 

A new update has been posted.

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/w/2011/04/sightings/domestic-bliss-two-eggs-and-full-time-incubation-appears-to-have-started-the-countdown-starts-ticking-today/

With pics!!

Good afternoon all,

Events from the nest today:

We must begin by mentioning a bit of drama which happened after the previous blog entry yesterday evening. At 17:24; an interloper was seen landing on the nest with our female osprey. It did not appear to have a ring and our female did not behave as she would with her mate, mantling over the eggs and calling agitatedly. She then appeared to take a swipe at it with her wing, causing it to fly away. Although our female continued to be alert tense for some minutes, the interloper did not return. For the remainder of the day and into the night our female looked very settled on the nest after 7Y had brought her a final delivery of a perch at 18:48.

Today began with a few interlopers and bothersome crows and a grey heron causing the female to alarm call and mantle.  7Y has delivered two fish to our female today. The first was a whole perch at 13:19. Then he flew in with a large, headless trout at 16:55. Having been well fed today, our female should all being well have a comfortable night ahead of her.

A question we received via ospreys@swt.org.uk asked us how we tell the male and female ospreys apart. The female is around 20% larger than the male bird and looks bulkier when sitting on the nest. The male, 7Y, is most easily identified by his green leg ring. Also, we will from time to time zoom in on the birds in order to take a closer look at them. When this happens you may be able to see a lightning bolt-shaped defect on the female’s right iris. This mark is unique to her like our fingerprint is unique to us.

4/26/2011  ::   Hatch Update
The remaining eggs in the scrape have had little incubation so it's likely we'll have only one nestling this season. We think this new female is very young and as such it's not unusual for her to lay infertile eggs. This may actually be good in the sense that she'll have less pressure in giving flight and hunting lessons to this nestling when it fledges than if the full clutch had hatched. Looking back to the 2000 season, mortality of the fledglings was high (75%) perhaps due to the inexperience of 4/4, the original Rachel Carson female in training the fledges to attain the skills necessary to reach independence.

Ahh poor eggs. 1 is better than none.

There he is!

He had to file an IFR flight plan first.

That fog was thick!

There he is!

He had to find the building first!

He had GPS in that Fog!

There he is!

Good morning Beauty!

   

Some nasty looking weather this morning...BLECH!

and Archer's a wee bit late this am.

Two choughs which arrived in Cornwall 10 years ago are being guarded around the clock by the RSPB and volunteers to protect their eggs.

The RSPB said the female had been seen sitting on a clutch of eggs in the nest in a cave at Lizard Point.

It is hoped the pair will be more successful than in 2010 when all four of their young died.

If the birds are successfully hatched and reared, the chicks are expected to fly off in early June.

The chough, a rare member of the crow family, has distinctive red legs and a long red bill.

There were more than 100 pairs in the county but the bird vanished after its food source dried up because of a decline in cliff-top grazing and the use of pesticides.

It eventually disappeared from the county in 1973, before returning to Cornwall in 2001.

In 2010, four eggs from the Lizard Point pair hatched but none of the fledglings survived.

Elsewhere in the county during the same year, there were another five breeding pairs in the county. Three pairs successfully raised nine young

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110424&content_id=18223284&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb Story & video

MILWAUKEE -- Move over, Bernie Brewer. Miller Park has a new mascot.

A hungry bird -- some thought it was one of Wisconsin's many red-tailed hawks, while the Brewers' amateur birders believe it was a peregrine falcon -- dropped in for the third inning of Sunday's 4-1 Brewers victory over the Astros, taking a bite out of an unlucky pigeon on the way in before settling into the grass only 50 feet or so from a very wary-looking Houston right fielder Hunter Pence.

There he stayed, throughout a three-run Milwaukee rally complete with fireworks that followed Rickie Weeks' home run. Pence did the right thing by staying away.

!!! New colour camera and a very good view indeed!
April 24, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Mark Nash Reports:

A big thank you to Matt our CPF web master for giving up so much of his time behind the scenes for sourcing out, researching and endless hours programming the new camera, rebuilding two new computers, and all of the field work he has been putting in to get us back on top of our web camera game. And to Linda, our downtown falcon watch coordinator for all of the running around, co-ordinating and arranging accesses to the various downtown nest sites that have allowed us do the necessary repairs and fixes to get the CPF web cams back up and running.

A huge thank you to Wendy and her colleagues at Osler, and to Jan Chudy who now both lives and watches the nest site from France for all of their continued support and contributions that have allowed us purchase the new camera and finally able to replace the aging black and white camera.

Lastly, we would like to thank the Toronto Sheraton Centre hotel management and staff, security , and ITT Hotels and Resorts for all of their support and patients, and for being both there for the CPF and the birds, and for being such great nest site hosts and foster parents to the birds.

We are delighted to report that the Toronto Sheraton nest has a new colour camera that is producing a great colour image of the nest ledge!
Enjoy, and stay tuned…………

!!! The nest tray photos that you have been asking for.
April 20, 2011 - Toronto - Don Mills
Mark Nash Reports:

As promised, I have enclosed some photos of the nest tray that you been requesting I post.
These shot were taken shortly after Tracy Simpson from the CPF delivered the nest tray to our location. While iorginally built and designed the nest tray for use at the Windsor nest site, Tracy and Steve were easily able to some some minor modifications to the tray while up at the CFP Raptor centre. tracy wss kind enough to transport the nest tray down to the Don Mills nest site, as Harlequin was kind enough to store it in their offices until we could get it installed on the ledge.

Congratulations are in order today for Rocky and Jubilee, the proud new parents of four baby peregrine falcons (or eyasses, as they're properly known) on the rooftop nest at 55 Water St.

The couple, who have been together for several years and made their home at 55 Water in 2008, previously had four children almost a year ago, named Brianne, Ramona, Matthew and Stephen. The new chicks have yet to be named, though the DEP will likely be on-site soon to tag the baby birds.

Falcons have been nesting at 55 Water St. since 1999, as one of 15 active nests across the five boroughs, and the building's website has been tracking their activity with a live BirdCam for several years. Though they're little more than precious fluff balls for now, soon, the eyasses will grow into fast-moving killing machines, diving for prey (like pigeons!) at speeds of 200 mph and using their talons to dislocate their victims's vertebrae.

From the gothamist

They be full!