!!! Yellow Pages Banding confirmed - Friday June 8th at 1:30pm
May 30, 2012 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
CPF Postmaster Reports:
May 30th - 2012

We are delighted to announce that we have confirmed a banding date of Friday June 8th at 2:00pm!
With a meet and greet in the lobby at the Yellow Pages building at 1:30pm, we will then proceed to band the young peregrine hatchlings at approx. 2:00pm.

Hope to see you there!!

I'm so excited!  The timing will let me make a zoom-zoom trip up to the banding! Joyce & MAK have graciously offered to go with me! Been waiting for years to be able to do this!  WOO HOO!

I'm happy for you, Ei!  You'll have fun!

!!! Great News - Janet is home!
May 30, 2012 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Kathy Reports:

Just received a call from Frank and Janet flew in with dad and is safely on the nest building.

More details tonight….

That is good news! Thanks!

First post-fledge day pics of Boo and Scout:

http://rogerpaw.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=2

Chris posted:

Beginning the process of sifting the few interesting movies from the worthless mass of automatically recorded dreck, I offer a food delivery movie from April 3rd (MPEG-4, 30 MB), while incubation was still less than halfway complete.

http://gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu/owl/2012/20120403/owl-20120403-022742.mp4

May 29, 8:53 PM – I searched for owlets at dusk, catching sight of one silhouette, and at least three overlapping, but distinct, food begging calls. Regrettably, both from a photographic standpoint, and an “I don’t
trust my owlets with other people� standpoint, they (or their parents) seem to have decided to camp in a tree very near one of the back corners of my yard, but, nonetheless, not in any on my property. So, unless they all decide to stand around at the end of the one branch I can see directly, I’ll have to settle for silhouettes, sounds, and the knowledge that all four of them are probably doing well.

I hope they all do well.  Love the sounds they make and the butt shot & her look -too funny!

Is Beauty okay?  Sorry about my dumb posts.  Watching from work with no access to Stream and I was worried when no one was there.

At 5:45 DC took over brooding from Beauty who left at 5:43 this AM.  He brooded until 8:04 when he left and they haven't been brooded since.  He usually takes a long shift in the AM.  Froona says the eggs can go unbrooded for up to an hour which we're at now.  Looks like only 68 degrees in the box but sun is warm.

May 29th update:

All our excitement about a second hatching on our Osprey nest seems to have come to nothing, as neither of the remaining two eggs have hatched in the last 24hrs or so. We have not given up hope altogether as it has been known occasionally for eggs to take longer than 24hrs to hatch, but it is looking increasingly less likely. Not only have the cracks in the eggs not gotten any bigger, there has not been any more movement visible by a chicks beak at the hole, and the female’s behaviour has also changed. She was almost frantically restless yesterday evening, as she presumably responded to the sounds of the chick moving inside the egg, but she has since grown much calmer. It is normal for ospreys ( and most other birds) not to help the chick out of the egg- hatching must take place slowly and naturally for the chick to survive.

Why these eggs haven’t hatched is a difficult question. If we presume that they were both fertile, it is possible that the chicks inside were too weak to hatch or that the egg shells were too hard for them to be able to break through (due to hot dry weather?) or there may be another cause. We may never know the answer exactly, though we will try to investigate further when we can do so safely.

Despite our disappointment we must focus on the fact that we have one healthy and very strong chick who is doing brilliantly- and that in itself is an important achievement for our birds.

Today this wee one has been doing brilliantly, actually waddling over to the male to peck at the fish- a bold confident chick indeed. The male osprey has brought in four fish so far today, but the last at around 7.20 pm caused quite a stir: the large Pike was brought in alive by the male to the nest, and he had serious problems releasing it from his talons despite the female grabbing it greedily. In the struggle, the fish got loose and it was still alive so flip flopped around the nest and almost flattened the wee chick several times- despite it being very comical the wee one was at serious risk, so the male promptly removed the fish from the nest and brought it back 20mins latter with the head removed- a  much safer dinner!

Too bad about the young male. 

They lost another one that died not too long after hatching.

Update on Zephyr and Guinevere:

http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-the-peregrines-banding-a-story-of-growth-and-loss-20120529,0,4248872.story

I totally forgot about this cam, thanks Kris for the video and link. What's with the nest, looks like it was hit with paintballs! Small nest for 2 big falcons, looked bigger when they were tiny. 

It does look like paintballs-maybe the way it was decorated?  There were 6 eggs but only 3 hatched.  The one hatchling was lost when the mother flew from the nest with the baby attached to it and it fell to its death. They are beautiful Falcons.

http://www.mavir.hu/web/mavir/elokozvetites1

http://youtu.be/hTCoJq9n5hY

 

Jewel, Herbie and Fern!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Rz0-e52gw#ws

Bobby and Rosie's babies have both fledged!  

http://rogerpaw.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=2

Thanks!   The one nest is on the top of a telephone pole-right next to the road! We parked about 50 ft. from the pole to see if anything was in the nest and not seeing any Osprey, we were just ready to pull out when I saw this large bird heading our way. The adult landed on the edge of the box but flew to a tree while Bill tried to get a picture and that's when the other Osprey popped its head up. Having never seen an Osprey this close, it was a good day!

Bill and I went for a ride over to Iroquois NWR today to see the Osprey. We did get to see the Eagles at Cayuga Overlook but it was difficult to take a pic with all the leaves on the trees now. Here's a few pictures of what we saw:

http://pix.kg/p/577803985213%3A1337532522/scl