[Thanks guys, I just do what I do best "POST". I don't mind going through 18 hrs of Cam shots looking for a "something". Heck, I even find but I do miss A & B and most of all reports on Mariah.]

Thanks guys, I just do what I do best "POST". I don't mind going through 18 hrs of Cam shots looking for a "something". Heck, I even find  but I do miss A & B and most of all reports on Mariah.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8twCvJJtT0A

You are surrounded by S words, Donna!    Snow in the North and  in Florida!  Yiks!

You are absolutely correct Janet...

[A snipet from our local paper....]

But Michael Bartone, membership director of the Hidden Valley Club, a semi-private skiing area in Vernon, said club officials were able to build a snowman on Thursday. Exactly one year ago, he remembered that the temperature was 50 degrees.

He said the farmer's almanacs this year, along with wooly caterpillars, have made one thing clear.

"It's going to be a really cold and snowy winter." Bartone said.

A snipet from our local paper.... I don't mind the snow    but not happy about the

cold.  That's if one believes the Farmer's Almanac 

Is anyone going through the archive to see if A&B are showing up on camera?

Trust me, I go through your archives every day from AM to PM. I always post what I see and lately...nada. Pretty boring without them.

I searched the Utica newspaper and found the following July articles.  On July 10 they were still hopeful, but on July 17 it was declared a failed nest again.

http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1885891326/Observers-Falcons-egg-s-overdue-but-may-still-hatch

http://www.uticaod.com/news/x931238474/No-offspring-again-for-falcons

~Joyce

Poor Falcons...this is sad 

There were no falcons on the main cam since October 11.  That was the last time I saw both in person, but Larry had Beauty on the Communication Tower at lunch on 10/12.

Joyce

But no sightings since Joyce? I guess no Mariah either. She's either hiding very very well or she left. What a mystery again. Thank you.

    Lovely and   

Oh it's just a 5 ft Rat Sssssnake in her yard... Yeah, we be stayin away from Fla. Sorry Cindy...keep it up, I'll never come down.

Have Archer & Beauty Migrated???? What about Mariah, where could she be? This is nerve-racking not knowing! 

Yup we got it... just about the same time last year too...

 

 Redding's most famous fowl have returned to their downtown nest during some seriously foul weather.

As fall's first big rainstorm approached Monday evening, Terri Lhuillier said her husband spotted Patriot and Liberty - a pair of adult bald eagles - checking out the nest at Turtle Bay where they raised a rare trio of eaglets this spring.

"We really didn't expect to see them this early," she said.

Despite the apparent return, an improved California Department of Transportation webcam affixed to a cottonwood limb near the nest won't likely be broadcasting images until next month, said Denise Yergenson, Caltrans spokeswoman.

That's when the eagles take roost in earnest. For now, Yergenson said the birds will be sporadically inspecting the nest before beginning work to rebuild it.

Patriot and Liberty became locally famous in 2007 when they resisted an effort by Caltrans to move them from their nest because of coming bridge construction. To do so, workers on contract with Caltrans wired a plastic cone to the nest. After about a month of protests by the public - including Lhuillier, a Redding science teacher who led a group of eagle fans to talks with the agency - and persistence by the bald eagles themselves, the agency removed the cone in December 2007. Bridge construction is expected to last until early 2011.

The eagles, who earned their names in a Redding.com poll, went on to have two eaglets in spring 2008 despite the nearby clatter of jackhammers and cranes.

Laws protecting bald eagles require the agency to monitor the impact of the construction on the eagles, so before the eagles returned in late fall 2008, Caltrans installed a digital video camera close to the nest.

This spring, the eagles outdid themselves, raising three eaglets from eggshell to airborne - a rarity in the eagle world.

Much of the spectacular sight was caught on the webcam, but continued technical difficulties brought the broadcast down before the eaglets took their first flights in June.

This year, the agency installed a new camera and a new hardwired line to connect its signal to its server, Yergenson said. Last year, trees interfered with the wireless link between the camera and the server, causing the cutoff.

"The wireless system just wasn't consistent enough," Yergenson said.

The old camera is still in place, she said, also now connected to a hardwired line and serving as a backup to the new camera.

Like Lhuillier, Yergenson said she and other Caltrans officials were surprised to see the eagles back already - and during such a storm.

"We really didn't expect them until the end of the month," Yergenson said. "What a day to pick to return to the nest.     

Young birds make it out to Africa
Osprey
Osprey make long migrations from Scotland to Africa

Two young birds of prey being tracked on their migration from the Highlands have reached Africa.

Ospreys Rothes and Mallachie were raised at RSPB Scotland's Loch Garten reserve near Aviemore.

Rothes has been flying around the Bijagos islands off Guinea-Bissau, while Mallachie has made it to Algeria.

The female birds were fitted with satellite tags. They are two of three chicks raised by parent birds EJ and Odin.

Last year's young were also tagged but died during migration.

Nethy was thought to have died earlier this year after migrating to Africa.

Her brother Deshar died last October after making a "navigational error" and missing landfall in the Azores.

Nest of mates: The kestrels and barn owl who live together   

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:23 AM on 15th October 2009

In the human world, house-sharing is often dictated by the limitations of space and finance.

But when you're as free as a bird, surely there are no such strictures.

So quite why these kestrels decided to share a home with a family of barn owls is a mystery.
Far from being a unique pairing however, it is apparently part of a growing trend.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said it had seen an increase in the number of birds sharing their nest boxes with different species.

Barn owls in particular seem to attract the most varied tenants, with reports of the birds sharing with species including jackdaws and stock doves.

In Boston, Lincolnshire, where this picture was taken, the arrangement seemed to work well, as the owls hunted at night, leaving the kestrels to sleep and find food in the day.
Other cohabiting species include blue tits and great tits, which have also been seen sharing with pied flycatchers.

The RSPB is now urging homeowners to clean out their nest boxes and put up new ones before birds begin house-hunting in the spring.

Richard James said: 'If birds are sharing, both species would appreciate another box.'

Looks like the 4th egg has been pushed to the back...