UT in nest


UT

djc  Looking at eggs

he's back

Sticking this here: Sad news by Kate St John

Disappointment at Two Bridges

Yesterday Dan Brauning and Art McMorris of the Pennsylvania Game Commission ventured out in PennDOT bucket trucks to band peregrine nestlings at two Pittsburgh area bridges:  Tarentum and Westinghouse.

Observers Rob Protz at Tarentum and John English at Westinghouse had pinpointed the locations on the bridges where the peregrines were nesting so Art arranged the site visits with PennDOT.

PennDOT was very helpful and the bucket trucks were impressive.  Unfortunately the news was not good.

At Tarentum, pictured above, Art McMorris leaned back to look into the nest hole but there were no nestlings, just one abandoned egg.

At Westinghouse there was one nestling too young to band and handicapped by convulsions and a deformed beak.  Not good.

This was not what anyone expected. Such a disappointment!

The adult peregrines will continue at their respective bridges, as shown below at Tarentum, but there won’t be a fledge watch at either site.

Merged with existing topic.

Oops, thanks

4:05am
4:41 am
5 am
5 :28 am
6:10 am
6:11 am a bit close
"Hey, who are you?"

Is that "new guy" next to main cam in 5th picture down?

Good eye, it sure is!!   

  From WHEC  The Seneca Waterways Council took some great pictures of our Rich Caniglia rappelling off the First Federal Plaza today!

  TS building


 Can see the cams









Larry O will be going down at 10:30 tomorrow (Friday)  COOL!!

When is she going to lose that thing?

Not until she gets some nail polish remover! 

Our little friend is back next to main cam whining!

He just left after whining and disturbing Beauty! 10:38 pm

also posted on the dutch fb page

Caption:  Volgens de kenner is dit Rocketman! 

Posted on the Dutch fb page.

Lol..okay we agree to disagree but I'm telling you his voice has changed then.  It's totally different.  I don't see it's the same bird at all.

You know this always happens Carly and we're all still friends!! 

New UT on left, old UT on right

Not DC, it was the other tiercel..she threw him out again.  And not UT..I hear his voice now and that's not UT's voice...I would know it in a heartbeat as I listened to him for hours on end.

No way to know for sure. It did look like UT to me what I saw of him today...and the few cheeps I just heard sounded like what I remember him sounding like. But I didn't see as much of him before as others.

Just hope Dot is resting wherever he is and will be back up to snuff real soon...

And UT always did his vocals off cam, as this one does. I thought UT also.