Belle & Shep's 2 eaglets!

Want to try to be an extra in the Spider-Man movie scene in Rochester?

The scout team for the Spider-Man movie checked out Main Street Monday. And we have information on how you can try to be an extra in the high-speed chase scene.

About 25 people involved in the movie shoot huddled at the corner of Main and Exchange Streets this afternoon. They were checking the layout for the Spider-Man movie high-speed chase scene that is scheduled to be shot on Main Street the first couple of weeks of May.

If you are interested in trying to be an extra in the scene, you can send your name, a good photograph of yourself, contact information and the year, make and model of your car to rochester@gwcnyc.com.

If you are interested in working as a production assistant, you can send your contact information to Karl Goldsmith(kgoldsmith@visitrochester.com) at the Film Office and it will be forwarded to the Production Office. This is a good opportunity for area film students. No phone calls, resumes, attachments, bios, horoscopes, etc.

For more information, go to the Rochester Finger Lakes Film and Video Office's Facebook page.

IMDb.com says "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is set to be released in 2014.

Maybe they will get some watchers or falcons in the movie!! Spiderman climbs TS, gets big surprise!

RM 4 Quest 4. Who will be the tie breaker?? 4's enough! We're trying for 1! All that mating here in Rochester, someone has to lay an egg!

At this point it's VV.Don't know where 2 OR is.She was only back for a few days.
Hope everything is going to be allright.

Thanks Carla, I keep saying OR 2. I'll get it yet! They have as many problems as we do here. 

Something has her attention and she left seeming agitated!

Peregrine fans love to follow the offspring of their favorite nest sites.  One of Pittsburgh’s favorites is Dorothy’s daughter Beauty who lives in Rochester, New York.  I’d say that Beauty “nestsâ€� in Rochester but this year is odd.

Last year after a Peyton Place of reversals Beauty mated with DotCa, pictured above, and raised one chick at the Times Square nest.  She was not his only mate, though, as he made frequent visits to Pigott, a young female three miles south at the Brighton site.

DotCa left town on migration last fall and for a brief time this spring Beauty was courted by an unbanded male, but DotCa returned in March and drove that male away.  Then he took up with both ladies as he had last year.

But as a mate DotCa treats Beauty badly.  When he first returned he tried to bump her off her perches and drive her away from the Times Square nest.  He doesn’t present her with food.  Instead he takes food Beauty caught for herself and presents it to Pigott!  This is just not done by serious suitors!

DotCa shows his preferences in other ways.  He spends far more time courting and mating with Pigott than with Beauty, so much so that Beauty doesn’t seem geared up enough to lay eggs.  And DotCa flew with Pigott to the Times Square nest and courted with her there last Thursday!

If he were a mime his meaning is clear.  He prefers Pigott.  Why doesn’t he gang up with Pigott to oust Beauty?  My hunch is that there are two reasons:  DotCa has a precedent for polygamy and Beauty is powerful.

DotCa’s father raised two families when DotCa was born.  As a juvenile he probably flew over to the other side of town where he learned about his father’s other wife.  Birds learn from their parents.  Voilà.

Meanwhile Beauty is powerful enough that she retains the Time Square site despite DotCa’s attempts to oust her.  And she is persuasive enough that he mates with her.

Now What?  By Kate St. John on DC, Pigott and Beauty

Perhaps we’re fortunate that DotCa has a polygamist family history as this allows him to have two females in close proximity.  Meanwhile Beauty and Pigott must work out the dynamics of sharing a mate.

But no eggs yet.

Now what?

 

Find out the latest at RFalconcam’s FalconWatch blog.

(photo by Margaret Kurtz (MAK) from RFalconcam’s FalconWatch blog)



http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2013/04/08/now-what/

1st egg at DeMortel, not sure who the female is at this point! VV or OR2???

I was there last year when I visited and met Sally. What a shame. I purchased some falcon photos of Kaver, Mariah and some other memorabilia. What will happen to all the treasures in there? 

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/10333886.Fears_grow_for_missing_peregrine_falcons/

"I think Perry has passed away, I can't see why they would leave here."
Extensive measures have beem taken to protect the birds and their fledglings at Quadrant House, by Sutton station.

Long Whiskered Owl? Nice, thanks!

So cool jeanne! Thanks

Beauty brings a large prey to nest, DC follows He's moving in for the take! he took it and left 
Beauty with prey
"Hey, that's mine!!!"
"Ah, shucks, he did it again!"

Then she left

Hi Suzanne, thanks for the report! Glad you saw both! 

DC B

Sorry to inform all falconheads, but Kinsey an offspring from the 2012 Market Tower nest is dead. She was found in Morocco IN near an elementary school. There was no indication of injuries so I can't say what happened. This is the hard part of my "job" but it is reality in the peregrine world - I have heard that 80% of falcons don't make it past their first year - life is hard and dangerous in the fast lane. She was Kinney's 61st offspring. This picture was taken by Shari J outside her office in Market Tower last year when the young were fledging. RIP Kinsey.

So sad! Fly Free Kinsey!