Oh how sad, poor Phoebe. This is the first I ever heard of a Hummer battle and one lost! I know they can be pretty aggressive but sheesh! Going to be weird not hearing about her anymore. Flutter Free Phoebe! 

1 flying

(movie) Yup 2 there Patsy!

Posted on our fb page. Who is this at KP? For a sec, I thought it was Pigott!

Posted by Caitlin Dwyer on Jan 5,

Looks like a Coopers Hawk   

Ya, not sure why a falcon would be eating on the ground, although they have been known to! Hawk, a good possibilty! 

Posted on our fb page. Who is this at KP? For a sec, I thought it was Pigott!

Posted by Caitlin Dwyer on Jan 5,

And the camera is out of whack! Pointed at roof! Waiting to hear how Quest, Skye and Kendal are doing!

It's so cold, no one is posting!!

  -1 in Rochester

I always worry about the birds but they are tougher then/than we think!!  LOL   

She's back

Left after this

Looks like Beauty again! Left quick!

Beauty on MMB



 

Hi All,

I arrived at the Gardens on New Year’s day round about 10 and started scanning the area in search of Nessi. No luck. At 10:30 I saw the parents disappearing over the Western Ridge. I have no idea where they were coming from, as I was glued to my binocs.

Monique arrived at about 11:00, and said that she was at the Gardens the previous day, and found both parents at the Butchers Rock looking down, so we concentrated on that area. Low and behold, not long after that, Monique found Nessi. By now Bill and Christine had arrived, and while Bill was setting up the Scope, we were keeping tabs on Nessi so as not to loose sight of him. Things happened so fast after that, that I cannot remember what happened. I remember that he spent some time at the Three White Rocks. It was “Showtime�. There was a wonderful display of stretching wings, jumping into the tree and quite a bit of flapping around. There were no sign of the parents, so we concluded that they decided it was time to leave Nessi “Home Alone�

Monique and I went to fetch some beers, (it was after all New Year’s day), and we continued to watch Nessi getting up to his tricks, gradually gaining height to the top of the ridge. In the late afternoon he took a beautiful flight over the ridge, and at that stage Monique and I left Bill and Chris, so they might have more to add to this rather special day.

I am not a good story teller, but I hope this will give some insight into the day, and sorry that you all could not make it to have experienced a wonderful day.

Kind regards,

Johann.


Go Nessi!!

  FROM CPF

One of my absolute favorite pictures of Ranger was this one as I took it and it has a great story behind it. Linda and I were up to a local building mechanical balcony area to check on the nesting progress of Hunter and Ranger as they had a clutch of eggs on the Mount Sinai Hospital they were incubating. We went up with two gentlemen from the building management to the balcony and we were prepping these gents on the way up with tales of how aggressive and full contact Ranger was. I think by the time we got up there they were pretty spooked. We get out onto the balcony area as quietly as we could and I made my way over towards the retaining wall for a look at the nest. Just then I hear a high pitched shriek which consequently came from one of the guys and I turned around to find that I was now the only one on the balcony and the access door was closed which by the way does not open from the outside. *sigh* Oh, man... I turn back to find that Ranger was now sitting on the retaining wall about 10 feet from me huffing and puffing in an attempt to blow my house down. I backed away towards the door slowly, getting this shot as I went, and gently tapped on the door which had now opened a crack and three sets of eyes peering out at me. I squished my way in as Ranger was the kind of girl that would follow you in a door so I had to be careful not to give her an opening. A great memory. Good times Linda. Grateful for such an awesome experience. P.S. I never did get near enough to see the nest. Ranger was all over me if I did!!

Canadian Peregrine Foundation
So it would seem that our mystery girl from Ohio, banded in 2012, was not the second female at the CBC tower in 2012. Photos from that discovery of the second pair show a female in adult-ish plumage and this girl would have been a juvenile. I have yet to check my photos from last year at the Chrysler building but it looks like this little girl from the University of Toledo nest site is not the original second female in Windsor. More as this mystery unfolds!!

I saw this on on the end of my block eating a duck, I live in Windsor Ontario on the 600 block of Kildare road. He appears to have a tags on both of his legs.

Garett on FB

CPF: Thank you Garett for this outstanding photo!! This could very well be our mystery girl in Windsor that is with the unbanded male at the Chrysler building. From what I could gather so far, she was hatched in 2012 to Belle and Allen and her name is either Unity II or Aura. When I know more we shall post but it looks like this is our girl from the second Windsor nest!

Another Duck hunter! 

Oh, poor Ranger!  At least she is no longer suffering. And poor Hunter now that Ranger is lost.  

Hunter is 14, Ranger was almost 13, no babies but so many eggs! Tears me up!