Yay, we like home bodies!!!!! 

Cadence is a beauty!! Great pics Bonnie!! I give you credit carrying that load where ever you go!! Well worth the end results!! 

How awesome, she's in good Talons!!! Thanks Pen and Kris!!!  4 girls......yikes!!

Something has come up so unfortunately not going to be able to make it Sat. Hope you all have a wonderful day of watching our great pefas!

Can you come out and play on Sunday morning?? I hope so! 

It was believed that Éole and his mate Ève were raising three chicks at St-Marc's church, but as of today it has been confirmed that there are actually four chicks! So despite losing his battle with Arthurin, it has been a good year for Éole.

Where did the 4th come from?? Wow!!

So happy she made it through her first flights!! Go Sandy!

She is gorgeous!! Hoping for the best!

Oh crud, I cried reading Mark's account of Mel's passing!! 

Peregrine Update: It's a boy! X-ray reports have revealed that the falcon is a male. We have also received the results from initial blood tests which have all been normal. We are still waiting for the reports from the lead test, but the bird is gaining weight & his flight feathers continue to grow. We will continue to provide public updates on the peregrine as soon as new information develops, but are unable to respond to individual inquiries about this patient.

https://www.facebook.com/animalrescuelg Video of Silver, the boy!!    he has such a darling face!! I bet he misses his momma!!

Sadly we lost another young Peregrine Falcon at our Etobicoke nest site yesterday afternoon. R.I.P. Mel. May the surviving 2 "kids", Ferris and Ninja, be safe.  Rob

  Fly Free!  Be good Ferris & Ninja!

Oh that was a great story!!! Thanks

Fascinating article and video of a blind man who records birds

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33345913

That was awesome, thanks jeanne!!

!!! Holcim Quarries - Colborne Ontario - Now this is something that you don’t see every day HERE in Southern Ontario!!!
July 04, 2015 - International, National and Local News

CPF Postmaster Reports:

Saturday July 4th - 2015
A big thank you to Barb at Holcim Miss. after her Saturdays visit to their Colborne quarries,, and for sharing yet another great photo of their three newest feathered residents.

While somewhat typical of what you might expect to see in the far northern regions of Ontario where the vast majority of Ontario’s peregrines actually reside, (well at least the historical peregrine population),, this is something of a twist!

A man made cliff (but a cliff type situation with a ledge never the less), but with a stick nest base,, courtesy of the recently evicted occupants,, (the ravens), and you have a nest site that we refer to as a “near-urban“. Not quite an urban nest site under its true definition, nor a non-urban under its true definition.

So, like the two other quarry nests and the earlier Niagara nest site when the peregrines were nesting on the gorge ledge, the “near-urban� designation fits quite well indeed.

So back to the Holcim quarries nest site, one of the three hatchlings has fledged, (a male), with the two other hatchlings still yet to take their first flights. It might also appear that one of the two siblings might also be a male given its size in comparison, (just a little younger)? In any case, they are all looking pretty good indeed, with their “Taj Mahal� of all nest sites here in southern Ontario!!

Unfortunately, neither of the resident adults are banded so we have no idea of their history or origin - (urban, non-urban or near urban produced)? Thus will be the case with the three young produced this year, as there was simply not enough time to organize a banding this season so we will never know their fate.

Next year we hope to on top of this one and looking forward to working with our new friends in Colborne!

Attached is a GREAT photo of the nest and the three young peregrines!
Photo credit to follow…

Posted on July 6, 2015 12:54 pm
Observation for International, National and Local News

 
 

!!! New resident adult male identified at the Niagara Falls nest site!! It’s Duncan from Hamilton! And as earlier suspected, there is in fact 3 fledglings!!
July 04, 2015 - Niagara Falls

CPF Postmaster Reports:

July 4th - 2015

Some very interesting news indeed from Connie in N.Y. as she has reported after seeing recent photographs of the resident adult male at the Niagara Falls nest site, that there has in fact been a change-over, as Onyx is no longer the resident adult male at the Niagara Falls nest site.

After checking the CPF banding database, the Black band number 32 over V that was photographed on the resident male in Niagara Falls turns out to be a 2008 Sheraton Hamilton produced bird that was named Duncan - (after one of the banders that was involved years ago banding some of the Hamilton peregrines).

We had several earlier reports of Duncan actually having been observed nesting in New York state in 2010, but these records seem to be incomplete on our updated banding data base. We will be checking the old data files to see if we still have the older historical notes that were attached to the this record and report our findings.

While we can’t positively confirm that the resident adult female is still Diamond, she is till believed to be the resident adult female at this nest site.
As far as banding, to answer many of your recent questions, sadly, this will not be possible.

Despite the fact that we have certified highly trained high-altitude climbers that actually are the folks that ascend down to (or repel up to) the many nest sites that are banded each year to extract the young peregrines, (the same certified climbers that actually train many of the Canadian law enforcement personnel, the Emergency Task Force (ETF), and many of the Fire department staff for their high-altitude rescue training, people that do this for a living, (not for a publicity stunt), the Canadian Niagara Parks Commission will no longer allow access for us to band the hatchlings, so unfortunately there will be no way to ever identify or follow any of the surviving fledglings.

Banding as you know, helps all of our provincial, federal and state wildlife authorities monitor and manage the species throughout its recovery, as it is one of the most effective ways to understand and monitor the individual birds movements, nesting, and of course the species mortality (among many other important data that comes out of monitoring the species).

I guess there is simply no money in it for them??? Perhaps we should have been asking Nik Wallenda all this time for a publicity stunt type peregrine banding event?? Hmmmm, sell tickets and attract sponsorship?

In any case, stay tuned for a more detailed update to follow………..

http://www.kmvt.com/content/news/Peregrine-Falcons-in-the-Snake-River-Canyon-311506361.html

TWIN FALLS, Id ( KMVT- TV / KSVT- TV ) Wildlife experts say they've spotted a successful breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons in the Snake River Canyon for the first time in 20 years. A local high school student named Austin Young, was the first to spot the birds. A Falconer from Boise then came and confirmed the species about a week ago.