[WanderingFalcon (Carol P.):]

OK, I'm making up names of locations at KP as I go.     The structure below the chute on the bldg just east of the blue building we're used to seeing LP on has orange railings at the top of it.  Hence ORB aka Orange Railing Bldg.  This may actually be an elevator shaft, but we're not sure. 

Both LP and her friend have been landing there frequently and vocalizing, ee-chupping loudly.  Will this be the area they choose as a nest site?  We'll keep Watching.

WanderingFalcon (Carol P.): 2 pefas at KP. The pefa on the still flew to the ORB. The 2nd flew in & landed. ee chupping filled the air. 1 back on the still.

Link:
http://twitter.com/WanderingFalcon/statuses/48150975860584448

But what will they nest in or on? Will the DEC put up a nest or is it too late?

prob her last visit tonight, unless she sleeps there! 

Hi Donna,  I can't get on the ustream site.  It evidently isn't working in AZ.  i get everything else but the live ustream.  It's driving me goofy.  Can you give me another live site to watch?  I really enjoyed this one last year and looked forward to it this year.

This site isn't Ustream, just the live cam....you can't get on?

http://www.iplpower.com/ipl/index?page=IPLGeneral&Menu=06000000&DocID=020391af33d6010aaeb2112a007dde  try this and click on ILP's falcon cam on the right.

She's been hanging out there a lot today!

Our youngest eaglet continues to hang in there and work his way into meal time. He’s still small and he has a lot of catching up to do, but he looks healthy and active, which at this age is about the best we could hope for.

We have noticed the eaglets’ big yellow feet are becoming more noticeable. Their feet are among the first body parts to become adult size, which is why biologists can often band their legs at a relatively young age. We don’t band eaglets at the Refuge at this time, so we won’t be banding these birds.

One question I did get this week was about the eaglets’ ability to feed themselves. Biologists believe that eaglets can feed themselves at around 6 weeks of age. Holding down prey with their talons while they tear into a fish or duck with their beak is hard work, so it takes a little while before the eaglets are strong enough to do it themselves. But once our oldest eaglet is able to tear off his own food, it might help our youngest, since it would free up the parent to feed just the two younger chicks.

No one has asked, but I thought I’d mention the Eaglet Naming Contest, as well. We usually like to wait until the chicks are about a month old before we start the contest, since that age is a safe time to assume that they’re all going to make it. So you can start thinking up your names now, and it won’t be long before we start the contest.

I do wish there was a box there.

Me too Janet, remember the year she and the eggs were covered in snow? In the Summer, they are so hot up there on the roof with no protection! If the were our falcons, they'd be sitting pretty.

Caught a falcon at Travelers!

Beauty

Beauty's calling for Archer



it worked

Falcon at nest for a very short time

@ 8:20

[As if the human catastrophe weren’t enough, the tsunami that crossed the Pacific Ocean has swept over most of Midway Atoll, where it has washed away tens of thousands of albatross chicks and buried many petrels in their burrows.]

As if the human catastrophe weren’t enough, the tsunami that crossed the Pacific Ocean has swept over most of Midway Atoll, where it has washed away tens of thousands of albatross chicks and buried many petrels in their burrows.

http://birdsredesign.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/tsunami-displaces-thousands-of-albatross-chicks/

"Honest, Mom, it wasn't me!"

Police are bracing themselves for a mass invasion of an ordinary home in Australia after 200,000 people replied to a party invite put on a girl’s hacked Facebook page.

A 17-year-old boy who posted an open invitation to the girl’s 16th birthday party has been arrested.
The girl’s shocked parents had the page removed from the social networking site.

Police have not identified the family or the party date to avoid encouraging would-be guests.

Police Inspector Terry Dalton said: “The only thing that anybody who turns up on that street will be met by will be some police vehicles patrolling the area.�

The 17-year-old was charged with using a telecommunications carrier to harass or offend. He is due in court in April.

facebook can be very dangerous, in the wrong hands!

The second egg.

Today Jetta laid her third egg.

Great Annette, thanks!