How hot is it there?

Archer sneaks in again
and Beauty's ready to go

Looks like 3 in this pic....but ya never can tell what lurks beneath 

Strange, its Archer of the white wing feather. right? 

Yes Archer has the white wing tip BC

I don't know, she's doing a lot of this lately. What's going on in them eggs!
Since she's new at this, maybe she doesn't know either. ???

Now that's a weird pic Aafke.

A quiet day incubation. A few skirmishes with the usual Pigeon Hole, but it seems that the slow owls in control and get the pigeons gradually give ground. Stone Owls that nest in more places with competition have, we saw again today during our field day. And of course there where the owl nest boxes have no interest in, for example because they have found another nice spot under the roof of a barn. And then benefit other birds of beautiful spacious closets owls. So we found a few boxes of Starlings and even great tits! Our experiences and results of the first field day, visit our blog www.athene.web-log.nl. The next week the log provided by Emiel and Joep. (Ronald & Pascal).

Owl/pigeon

Great video Paul...besides the call of the Loon...I  the sounds of the waves hitting the shore. Thanks.

Are they talking to her? 

She's up a lot

!!! The falcons have finally been sighted!
April 28, 2010 - Ottawa - Crowne Plaza
CPF Postmaster Reports:

Good morning, all, just to let you know that the falcons have been spotted this morning (Wednesday Apr. 28/2010) at 10:15 à 10:25 a.m. Male sighted in flight and on CP hotel SE corner (last year’s nest site) TWO females in air above at the same time (both were larger than the bird that landed on CP and of about equal size some “chasing� observed but male did not participate but was watching from a distance and followed when the two females headed north over the East Memorial Block). Heard calling KEE__YAAK_YAAK_YAAK from male when he was on the CP Hotel ledge; neither female responded as far as I could tell. There is a crow’s nest in one of the trees on the Place de Ville patio area (smoking area), and is in perfect sight line from the SE corner of the CP Hotel, female crow is currently brooding her eggs; perhaps this will become a “lunch-counter� for the falcons once the baby crows begin to fledge. Keep in touch and have a great day…

Scott

!!! Getting close!
May 01, 2010 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:

Yesterday was approximately Day 30 by my count of heavy incubation here at the Etobicoke nest site!  As if to back up my calculations - Jack for the first time since last years chicks were here was perched in his old signage spot most of yesterday so I know something is up!  He spent quite a bit of time here yesterday for the first time in quite awhile.

This morning I arrived on-site at 8:25 am.  Jack was on his old perch and Mom was in the nestbox.  Usually you can’t see her from the ground due to the height and depth of the nestbox but this morning I observed her tail and head flipping around quite a bit which tells me she is not laying very flat like she normally does. 

Jack spent his time watching, clearing the pigeons and anything else he didn’t like the look for about a half hour which included me!!   He actually flew over to where I was across the street and down the road and circled  low above me three times which was quite intimidating.

 He went back to his perch for awhile, satisfied that I was sufficiently cowed - which I must say I was!  Then he flew out to the south, back and forth a few times as something must have caught his eye and the last time he came back with something in his talons.  He then flew to the front ledge and was in the process of preparing Mom’s brunch when a poor misguided pigeon was attempting to land on the ledge and he just grabbed it in midair and that was that!  That’s the second time I’ve seen him do that and it’s just spectacular to see!  He then took his new catch and flew by the nest ledge and then headed towards the direction of his other nest site!

At 9:36 he arrived back at our site, swung around and grabbed his previous catch and went to present it to Mom, a few chups were exchanged and she took the offering and flew out of sight to the rooftop to enjoy her meal.

She took close to a half hour to enjoy her meal and then returned to the webcam, a few more chups to dad and she settled into cleaning her talons and giving herself a good preen which is how I left her at 11:00 am and Jack was still in the nestbox so she’s had a good break this morning!

A new update of Quest is posted.

She's racking up them frequent miles. That girl can move!

["EYASES"]

That is one big pile of "EYASES"   

What?

That's 1 of 4.

 

Beauty's feeling the heat already....gonna be a hot one today.