4/8/2010  ::   Juvenile Female Claims New Territory
The red-band coded female that fledged from the Rachel Carson State Office Building two years ago has been spotted at a nest site in Wilmington, Delaware; she may be responsible for killing the resident female and taking over the scrape.

This female was banded on May 22nd 2008 and weighed 795 g, the largest of the four nestlings banded that day. The Rachel Carson female and her mother, the nesting female at the Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia from 1998 until 2005 are know to biologist as intensely aggressive and territorial. These traits have clearly been passed on to their progeny.

To see the young female at her new scrape, visit http://www.dosbirds.org/wilmfalcons

Looks like Jr could use a blanket...in the 30's

Grab them zzz's while you can  soon this 

What were they doing last night?


Yesterday afternoon Dori laid her third egg so this morning I looked through the video archives for footage showing all five: the two eggs laid by the previous resident (Tasha) and Dori’s three.  I looked especially for nighttime images because the eggs show up so well under infrared light.

What I found was a surprise.

Around 11:15pm last night, Dori was incubating the eggs when something flew by and caught her attention.  She got up and trotted to the left, out of camera range.  I could hear ee-chupping, then little eee sounds, then a distant wail.  Silence.  For more than ten minutes there no bird sounds except one or two distant wails.  No birds on camera.

After ten minutes Louie appeared, walked to the scrape and adjusted the eggs.  Male peregrines don’t usually incubate at night.  What was going on?

Louie spent about 5 minutes with the eggs, standing over them, peeping softly.  A peregrine wailed in the background.  Louie left the eggs and walked down the ramp where he paused to listen (pictured here, approx 11:39pm).  Then he was gone.

I wonder what happened.

We’ll never know.  The archives broke after that for the next two hours (they saved the same two seconds with a new time stamp) and when they resumed at 2:00am all was calm and Dori was incubating.

Another night in the life of peregrines.

p.s. I did find a photo of Dori with all 5 eggs.  See below.

How many siblings will this egg have? I say 2..3 tops.

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I agree  I want to say WT?

Close up...THANKS

Boy she laid that egg just before I had to go to work....Then I had to leave    But it's a Gorgeous EGG!

 

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Were not falling for that "pretend your laying an egg thing" again.   

Hopefully, it's Archer she's looking at.

Beauty's reaction when 3rd Peregrine (female) passed over the Times Square Bldg. 

No wonder she's holding off on eggs....Don't they do that if there's a threat? I think Mariah was right in the middle of laying eggs when a female came through one year. Was that the year 1 disappeared?

Hi,

Scout laid her first egg in this season.


Greetings
Annette

Great Annette, I haven't checked this yet..That means Beauty will follow soon.

The snowy owl first appeared on the islands in 2003

A male snowy owl has returned to the Western Isles for a seventh year in search of a mate.

RSPB Scotland said the large white owl first appeared on the islands in 2003 after possibly flying from as far as North America.

In 2008, birdwatchers' hopes of snowy owls breeding in the UK for first time in more than 30 years were raised when the bird was joined by a female.

However, the pair were later spotted 50 miles apart.

The last pair of snowy owls to breed in the UK was on Shetland in 1975.