[Have a great day gayle]

   Have a great day gayle.

[have a 6-foot wingspan]

have a 6-foot wingspan

  LOL, sounds more like an eagle...ya just have to let those people ramble on and nod your head. Lots of people think Hawks are falcons too and when it's really is a Falcon, it's a hawk to them  

Doesn't look like a falcon but the band says it all.
Just before take-off @ 5:07
Came back @ 5:52 to a screaming halt

(doesn't anyone sleep?)

  LOL, that was funny

Interesting to find out more. Thanks joyce   

Any news from Linda how the kids are? No updates on Canada site.   I'm sure their fine but just checking.

[First Successful Catch???????July 01, 2010 - Burlington - Lift BridgeSue McCreadie Reports:]

First Successful Catch???????
July 01, 2010 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Sue McCreadie Reports:

This evening out of nowhere, we spotted Brant trying to land on the cable wires.  To our surprise, he was carrying a bird in his talons.  Was this the first successful catch?  I think so, because there was absolutely no sign of Mom and Dad nor the typical screaming when Mom or Dad deliver dinner.  As a matter of fact, Mom and Dad had not been seen for most of the day.  Sister Diana rushed out to meet Brant screaming but she soon realized that he was not sharing.

!!! While we have received no updates on the nesting activities of the London peregrines, there is still lots of peregrine activity!!
July 25, 2010 - London - TD Tower
CPF Postmaster Reports:

Hi…
I live on St. Bees Close in north London about a km north of University of Western Ontario.
This past Friday June 25, 2010 about 6 pm, a peregrine falcon (not sure of sex) was in the middle of the street, with a young starling in its talons and about 10 adult starlings standing and swooping down on it to try and get it to let the youngster go.
Quite a sight and very unexpected.
Jim Durham

!!! A new family!
June 30, 2010 - Etobicoke - William Osler
Mark Nash Reports:

Hi Mark & Matt
I was able to get a couple of pics through the peep hole of the chicks today. Still one egg left to hatch, fingers crossed.
Photos to follow.
Joe

!!! Well this is the year of the glass balconies!! Yet another fledgling entrapped behind a glass balcony! It’s Zera!
June 30, 2010 - Toronto - King Street
Mark Nash Reports:

Yet another call from Toronto Wildlife after they received a call from Rob, an employee with Image Design who calls from his cell phone while working at job site at George and Adalide in downtown Toronto, as he watches a young banded peregrine falcon struggle to get free from yet another glass balcony enclosure.

Identified as Zera by her 18 over X black band, she was produced at the Toronto 18 King Street nest site this year, and has hopefully learned a valuable lesson today about urban living. Uninjured and very peeved off, Zera was rescued safe and sound and will be released back to her parents and the nest site at 18 King Street nest site were she was produced.

!!! A view from the east!
June 30, 2010 - Toronto - Uptown Yonge and Eglinton
Mark Nash Reports:

Just thought I would give everyone a look of the nest building (and the actual nest ledge) from the east.
Also indicated is where little typhoon was rescued from a glass balcony - (in red).

he's down
he's up

Music is suppose to put you to sleep Jemison.

he's just looking at the big bright city

[CONGRATS Sage...I'm so glad you have your own Falcon namesake. I'm very happy for you. Way to go Connie!]

officially named Sage by Connie

CONGRATS Sage...I'm so glad you have your own Falcon namesake. I'm very happy for you. Way to go Connie!

Love the pics too. Thank you!

Now he's really tired..the little cutie

All pumped up after a swell day of flying.

Jemison flew in to say Good-Nite.

Surviving falcon returned to downtown Reading nest

The adult female peregrine falcon from a downtown Reading nest sits Wednesday on a ledge at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sixth and Washington streets.
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The only surviving peregrine falcon of this year's known city fledgings has been returned safely to its parents' nest at a downtown Reading office building.

"He did a few turns and landed nicely on the roof," said Arthur McMorris, peregrine falcon coordinator for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. McMorris was present for the Tuesday afternoon release.

He said the bird and its parents interacted well, the young bird begging for food and the parents vocalizing their greetings, in the way birds say hello, McMorris said.

Peggy Hentz, owner of Red Creek Wildlife Center near Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, released the bird at 3:30 after treating it for a head injury at the center.

"To watch those birds fly through the air at eye level, it just leaves you with the feeling that those peregrine falcons, they own the air," she said. "They really do."

The bird was taken to the center June 17 after being hit by a car at Fifth and Penn streets.

The bird is one of four to be born to Reading's falcon pair this year, but the only one to survive. Its two sisters died from a parasitic digestive disease called trichomoniasis, and its brother, found dead in the nest, died of unknown causes.

McMorris said the remaining bird is in excellent health and was both flying and hunting well at the wildlife center before its release.

Hentz said a video of the bird flying with its parents is on the wildlife center's website, redcreekwildlifecenter.com.

"We always get to see (animals) broken and sick," Hentz said. "To actually be up there and have them flying around you. We were in awe."

Oh that poor girl...such tragedies there lately. Thank you Carly, I feel real bad now. Callidora and Jemison..pay attention to the buildings!

[Hope your having a great Day....enjoy!]

Hope your having a great Day....enjoy!

     

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While the Gulf Coast oil spill looms large for those who work with Wisconsin's migrating birds, the spring brought some much needed good news for the effort to restore a flock of migrating whooping cranes.....