Archer's very antsy this morning.  I wonder when the eggs start chirping?   

Wonder no more.  Imprints has the answer...

Um, me too, I get the same as you Jim...blank page that says done on FF and on IE, I get the error code 403. I cleared my cookies, history, even tried Google chrome....nada...nothing..can't even get to the sign in page. I give...I'll just read it here and thank everyone for posting about Seneca and Cheyenne.  

I should have noted I've also tried it on Firefox, IE 7 & 8, and Google Chrome (running on WinXP Home, Professional and Windows 7 machines).  I used to have Opera installed on one of my computers but ditched it some time ago, so I can't test on that browser...

A work in progress......

http://www.creativecaninephotography.com/

Very nice.  Is that a Shiba Inu in the Friends album from April 26?

Oddly I can get to Chris and Chad's pictures that Dumsterkitty is posting on this forum.  Those thumbnails link directly to the CMNH website.  But when I try to backtrack with the URL by removing the parts of the URL that refer to the location of the photos) I get the same blank screen.

I pinged the web address www.falconcam-cmnh.org and got back its IP address, but the ping request times out.  A Tracert request to either the URL or the IP address fails as soon as it leaves my local network and heads out to the broader Internet.  To me that means the DNS servers are working ok, but there might be a problem with the ISP serving up the actual pages for the site.  That being said, I'm not well-versed in internet protocols, so I don't have a solid idea of what the problem might be.  I do know its affecting multiple computers on both home and work networks, and that clearing my browser's cookies and cached documents didn't restore my ability to access the site.  Still just getting a blank white page.

UPDATE:  on IE I'm getting an HTTP 403 error.  I think this is a problem on their side, not ours.  I can get to the main CMNH site (www.cmnh.org), but the 403 error occurs as soon as I click the Falconcam link...

Wow...what great stills..but very sad for them. Thanks Joyce. I saw where one of them actually ate the yolk on the ledge. Why is that stuff lethal for falcons as Carol mentioned this am if it gets on their feathers? Is it like glue???

Yep.  Ever try cleaning dried egg yolk off a counter top?  Just think about that getting into feathers...

I was able to browse the CMNH forum for a short time this evening as a guest, but as soon as I tried logging in the site shut down on me.  Very odd.

Looks like a long way down but if the Juvies end up down there, they can climb the ladder back home.

Looks like Kenn's using Camera 1 to search for the discarded egg...

Archer's got just a little of his grandmother's Fierce Look ^TM in that shot...

Unfortunately this is one of those times when we had a significant gap in data transmissions, and the data we did get isn't of the greatest quality.

Basically the data dump we received on the 19th covers the period from 5PM to 9:25PM (local time) on 18 April.  

The data dump we received on the 20th covers the period from about 10PM on 19 April to 7AM on 20 April.  

So we didn't get any data for most of the day on the 19th, including the period when Quest might have been at Port Colborne.  The best transmitter evidence we have for her being there is the final transmission from the 18th, which is posted on Quest's weekly and monthly maps, and shows her just to the west of Port Colborne.

The data for the 20th that we received places Quest in the vicinity of Alexandria Bay, a couple hundred miles away from Port Colborne.  The earliest and latest data points from the 20th are in agreement, and though we had a lot of very poor-quality transmissions in the data, they're all consistent in placing Quest in this area.  So if she was at the Port Colborne site, we can't rely on the satellite data to confirm it.

Nevertheless, I'm inclined to think she probably did visit the ADM nest box.  It was pretty much on her flight path east from her location late on the 18th, and I don't think there are that many falcons equipped with transmitters out there (though I don't know specific numbers).  The trip back to Alexandria Bay would only take her about 4 hours, and she's shown a great affinity for not settling down, so maybe she was just checking things out.  We just don't have much observational data from which we can draw any firm conclusions.  

Maybe Doug can get us some more information.  I'd be interested to know the time of day that the falcon was spotted, how long it stayed, and if anyone took a picture (even a picture of the monitor screen would be welcome) or saw a leg band.

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I can't post large photos here but check the 3rd pic HERE    The other leg band seems to be yellowish, but, Buffalo bands similarly and we're also hoping it's one of ours!

Definitely a yellow tape band in that third picture.  It'd be great if it was Zephyr, but of course you folks in Buffalo will be rooting for a home-town returnee...  I'll be interested to learn the band ID if anyone can get a read on it.

What's with the cybernetic falcon at Terminal Towers in Cleveland?

"Archer: Ya ya, I know!"


As I looked at the pic of wee Archer trying to scrunch all those eggs under his tiny belly, Leo Sayer came on the radio singing: "I'm a one-man band - Nobody knows or understands..." Kinda Archer's theme song this year...

Slainte!
Bobbie

Leo Sayer... now that's going back a while!

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/15/midwest.fireball/index.html?eref=edition

Yeah, sure it was.  That's what THEY want you to believe.

Before this nest box was installed at TS, it sat in the Kodak Community Center in Building 28 (Kodak Park) for several years.  I'd guess that GVAS approached the Boy Scouts about building it, but Rush NY (the home of Troop 378) is a bit of a drive from Rochester.  I'd think they'd have been able to find a troop in the city to do the work... On the other hand, maybe a GVAS member from Rush provided the impetus to build the box, or someone in Kodak's Health, Safety and Environment department got the ball rolling on this nest box build.  Alternatively, it could have been built as part of Dennis Money's Rochester Peregrine Project, which began with RG&E (Rochester Gas & Electric).  There were supposed to have been something like a dozen nest boxes erected around the Rochester area from that project, so maybe this was one of those.

As far as I know, its purpose at Kodak was to be a demonstrator model (the nest box equivalent of the Space Shuttle Enterprise), but as its origins are shrouded in mystery we may never know the full story.

I removed it from Kodak Park back in '08 and retrofitted a door on one side to facilitate retrieving the eyases at banding time.  Hopefully we'll have a chance to put my modifications to the test later this year...

...OK, so I'm the one who mentioned them, but it's still good publicity for our favorite raptors.  You can watch my 15 seconds of fame here.