Looks like 2 sets of blue feet this year!

Cool! 

!!! Banding success! All four hatchlings are males!
May 30, 2014 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Mark Nash Reports:

Friday May 30th - 2014
A good day at the Toronto Sheraton Centre Hotel this afternoon as four of Toronto Sheraton’s newest guests and family members are banded and named and safely returned back to their parents!
Stay tuned for the update and lots of photos!

Thanks, Carly!  4 boys...wow!   

Unusual for both to be on the ledge...wonder if they can hear banding preparations going on...

Banding today?

3 boys for Spirit and Roger!   

UB banding was today...3 females and 1 male!  Congrats to Yankee, Dixie and their followers!

HI MOM!  

        

There was one spotted on a street in Batavia a couple days ago...it was garbage day so probably checking cans out for food.

http://blogs.scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/osprey/2014/05/29/osprey-diary-29th-may-2/

I posted these same pics a few years ago, but it's fun to see them again.

http://www.rochestersubway.com/topics/2014/05/up-close-and-personal-with-mercury-statue-rochester-ny/

It is a really neat statue and has also served our PEFAS well over the years from being a mating place, lookout point, a place to cache food to a dining table! 

Have they posted where the eyas came from?

They said a coastal nest site in Ocean Gate, NJ that had 3 eyases, including this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OixvymWqczU#ws

Thanks!   

May 28: We were dead on with the aging of the nestling (9-10 days old) when we fostered it into the nest last Wednesday! Today the nestling is 16 days old, and its primary coverts (flight feathers) are just starting to come out of the sheath. You can see the dark feather tip (circled) in the above photo. I believe it's a female. From looking at photos of her with her siblings, she looks bigger than her former nestmates. Female raptors are larger than males, and with falcons, they all hatch around the same time, so aging them is much easier since they're all the same age.
At this age her feathers are really starting to develop. Her tail feathers have emerged and her down is looking even more fluffy. By 20 days her downy feathers will be very heavy and her contour or body feathers will become visible on her wing margins and tail. She is now four times her birth weight and is moving all around the nest. It really is amazing to watch how fast they grow! -Ben



  fresh catch for the young eyas!

So happy this worked out!   

Two boys, two girls.  Going down now to ours  

Just got back home and read the good news!  Congrats to our Quest and Skye! Is this the first that Quest has had males...can't remember except I know she's had several females? Names?

She did have a male...Blaze...in 2012

Thanks!

Just read on BCAW that Jack and O'Connor have 2 males, one very tiny who was only 440Gm, 1 female and 1 banded as female but they weren't sure if it was or not. Congrats, Carly! 

Two boys, two girls.  Going down now to ours  

Just got back home and read the good news!  Congrats to our Quest and Skye! Is this the first that Quest has had males...can't remember except I know she's had several females? Names?