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No Annette, it's still there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11022260  Video

Wow!

[Poor Darla, this is sad.]

 Posted on August 19, 2010 by Sam Cook

Darla, one of four peregrine falcon chicks raised on the Greysolon Plaza building in Duluth this summer, died Aug. 14 at the Raptor Center in the Twin Cities. She had been found in a weakened condition in Duluth the day before and was taken to the Raptor Center the morning of Aug. 14.

“They did X-rays on her and found some old bone fractures, so they did a full necropsy on Monday,â€� said Julie O’Connor a naturalist and volunteer coordinator at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth. “She had several healed fractures in her legs, a more recent fracture on her humerus, and she had a horrible case of aspergillosis, which is a fungal infection.  She was quite thin also.â€�

O’Connor said it appeared that Darla, one of four chicks raised by two adult peregrines, had some form of a bone disease, the avian equivalent to rickets.

“She’s a bit of a puzzle, hopefully an anomaly,� O’Connor said.

Of the four chicks, three were males. One of them died the day after he fledged in late June. The other two males are presumed to be alive, O’Connor said.

Poor Darla, this is sad.

Beauty

Archer
Beauty.

Archer looking for his Beauty
Nope, she's not in here.

[Thought I posted yesterday's]

Osprey Diary 19th August
August 19th, 2010 by E Rawling, Perthshire Ranger SWT

Update: Camera problems again folks! Bare with us! Also, 3 ospreys have been seen flying around, although we have no idea if they are ‘our’ ospreys or visitors!

  Thanks to everyone who has sent osprey sightings from around the UK, and we hope you are enjoying seeing them in your neck of the woods. The next month or so should be a very productive as far as sightings go, except for those of us in the far north whose sightings will dwindle.

 As the wonders of migration unfold this autumn, we are lucky to be able to follow some osprey’s journeys in real time via tracking technology. We did not have the opportunity to satellite track our ospreys here at Lowes this year but there are young birds being tracked by Roy Dennis of the Highland Foundation for wildlife from Speyside and at the Lake District Osprey project (www.ospreywatch.co.uk). Check out their websites for detailed updates of the chick’s progress this migration season. You can also follow some birds all winter via Roy site: www.roydennis.org.

 Our male osprey has been around on the nest at Loch of the Lowes over the last day or so, but still no sign of the chicks- they must be out and about in the area , so we will let you know of any sightings today.

 Emma Rawling

 Perthshire Ranger

Osprey Diary August 18th
August 18th, 2010 by E Rawling, Perthshire Ranger SWT

Update: Sorry for the interruption in viewing! Seems to be a problem with our internet connection. We’re working on it! On a positive note, our Laird has been seen for a while this afternoon, so they are still with us…well dad is anyway!
Fiona

A beautiful morning here at Lowes, with blazing sunshine and a light wind- a perfect late summer day. But what is noticeable is how much the evenings are already shortening, with dark now falling well before 10pm, a sure sign the year is turning fast.

 We know that most animals and birds respond to day length, rather than temperature as triggers for migration and other seasonal behaviour. So little wonder that our ospreys thoughts are all turning south!

 This time of year with ospreys from all over Scotland are migrating,  so those of you who live in southern areas are in for your twice yearly chance of seeing an osprey locally. The birds take all sorts of routes over the UK and can be seen , not just near water ( where they stop and feed and rest up on route) but flying over even built up areas- a couple of years ago, Roy Dennis even satellite tracked on osprey flying right over Heathrow airport!

 So, here is our guide to spotting an osprey:

 Look for a bird about the size of a buzzard (roughly five feet in wingspan) or a very large gull ( such as a black back).

 Look for a distinctive raptor silhouette, with classic ‘finger-tips’ on wing ends, and a slight elbow in the wing- Buzzards have a very straight front wing edge.

 Look for a pale white under belly (not just pale elbow patches like buzzards) and if you can, a pale head- a buzzard always has a darker head. .

 Good luck and be sure to let us know where you are seeing birds!

 Emma Rawling

 Perthshire Ranger

Thought I posted yesterday's  ???

Anything to make a buck. Sick.

from this am
Had some withdrawal but I'm better now

Thanks Shaky, I'm sure it was maddening this Forum stuff. 

you are not alone I have been getting them too. I had other problems earlier today and thought they were connected. well maybe they are in some way.

I had problems earlier, when I clicked show unread post, it gave me a blank page and on the bottom it said Done. This happened at least 4 times today.

I'm getting "picture not found" on all cams. WOW, is it just me?

I joined Dan on the Broad St bridge-- Beauty was on Mercury and Archer was on OCSR.   Suddenly, Archer went in the direction of the Hyatt followed several minutes later by Beauty.  We moved to Frontier parking lot and saw.... nothing.  sheesh.  Suddenly there was a falcon on Xerox but we didn't see the direction of flight.  That was it for the evening! 

Foiled again..they are fast, um well their suppose to be. Thanks jeanne. Wonder where C is these days.

(Aug 18, 2010)

Hamilton's falcon watchers are playing an integral role in assisting a provincewide resurgence of the peregrine falcon.

That is according to the Ministry of Natural Resources which says that falcon numbers in Ontario may have grown from 78 pairs in 2005 to 100 this year with the help of the Hamilton Community Peregrine Project.

A recently launched survey, which ends in September, will provide firm numbers.

Lisa Nyman, the biologist in charge of the survey for MNR, said much of the success is due to groups that work so hard to support the peregrine falcon.

She said: "They do fantastic work. We are encouraging people to become more familiar with the falcon so they can spot them for us."

The survey relies on members of the public notifying MNR about Ontario's occupied territories -- areas where at least one falcon is known to live.

Experts believe the population decline began in the 1960s with the chemical DDT, which worked its way up the food chain to animals and insects.

The pesticide, now banned, is also said to have weakened eggshells which many believe had a devastating affect on the falcon during incubation.

The recent increase in numbers comes after extensive effort by MNR to revive the species in Ontario. It has released 600 young falcons into the wild since 1977.

Local groups, too, have been working hard to ensure city birds survive.

The HCPP has a base across the street from the Sheraton, where falcons have nested on the window ledge for 16 years.

During this nesting time, group members are stationed for about three weeks in June to ensure the safety of the six-week-old chicks.

Forty-eight chicks have been fledged at the site.

The other pair live atop the Burlington lift bridge.

Despite all the good news, some people are cautious.

Mike Street, one of the original members of the HCPP, said he doesn't want people getting carried away.

"I am a bit worried we are getting ahead of ourselves," he said. "It would not be good for the falcon if everyone thought the species was fine. We are not out of the woods yet.

"We know of some in the south and in Thunder Bay but in between the two sites we have little knowledge and we need the full picture.

"Last year, for example, some of our chicks caught a disease and didn't make it.

"It would only take a few years of disease to wipe out urban portions of the species again."

He added the bird, which is one of the fastest creatures on the planet, was downgraded from endangered to threatened in 2005.

Some of the other areas that have pairs include Toronto, Niagara, London, Port Colborne, Ottawa and Windsor.

If watching a hawk, eagle or falcon lifts your spirits, good news has arrived: this autumn, you have every chance of spotting one at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, the world's first refuge for birds of prey.

This year marks the 76th Annual Autumn Hawkwatch at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, where a raptor expert is on duty all day, every day, through Dec. 15.

http://www.bctv.org/special_reports/environment/article_3f7a4df2-aade-11df-ac27-001cc4c002e0.html  To much to copy here....continued

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Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Aug. 11) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. A brown pelican was seen in Buzzards Bay near Wood’s Hole, but has not been seen since. In Chatham, a bar-tailed godwit was reported from North Beach Island, when it was last seen flying north.

At South Beach in Chatham there were 2 common eiders, 2 common loons, 25 greater shearwaters, 25 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 1 Northern gannet, 250 double-crested cormorants, 2 snowy egrets, a yellow-crowned night-heron, 2 ospreys, a Northern harrier, a peregrine falcon, 500 black-bellied plovers, 2,000 semipalmated plovers, 14 American oystercatchers, 16 piping plovers, 200 greater yellowlegs, 45 willets, 2 Western willets, a spotted sandpiper, 15 whimbrels, 68 Hudsonian godwits, 5 marbled godwits, 75 ruddy turnstones, 100 red knots, 300 sanderlings, 4,000 semipalmated sandpipers, 50 least sandpipers, 100 short-billed dowitchers, a Bonaparte’s gull, 250 roseate terns, 1,300 common terns, 7 black terns, and 14 saltmarsh sparrows.

At Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary there were a glossy ibis, a yellow-crowned night-heron, a black-crowned night heron, 6 green herons, 6 great-blue herons, 25 whimbrels, a pectoral sandpiper, and 10 spotted sandpipers.

At Hemenway Landing in Eastham, 5 yellow-crowned night-herons, 11 black-crowned night-herons, and 49 whimbrels were noted.

A Lawrence’s warbler, which is a hybrid between blue-winged and golden-winged warblers, was spotted at Pilgrim Heights in Truro. A snowy egret and 19 whimbrels were in the Pamet River marshes elsewhere in Truro.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.

I would have a  attack if I saw all these birds! My word!