I'm with Ei.      

Me too! 

I agree. Love to see vacation pics seeing as we don't travel much in recent years due to elderly pet issues.  Thanks for sharing, Paul!

Was glad to post! I thought we needed a happy ending story for a change!

Melba released after rehab!

http://woodmen.typepad.com/falconwatch/2011/07/melbas-back.html

From the chat...

07/28/11 Cary: …. my pics of a juvie at 5:30 pm yesterday, a couple thous. feet down-river from the release field. There is a purple band, but it is unreadable. Each of you can pretend it is whoever your fav is. Whoever it is looks pretty happy surveying it's new beginnings
   
Juvie after the release

Looking good!  Thanks, Ei! 

I can't get this to work. 

Me neither... 

http://mediagallery.usatoday.com/Baby-animals-make-debuts-at-zoos/G2550,A9762 I don't know why you 2 can't see it.

The very cute blue eyed cat pops up and then it goes to a white screen and just spins and spins. 

ditto.  Odd-- i went to usatoday.com and typed in baby animals.  It's there but does the same thing that way too
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Worked just fine for me 
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Worked fine for me too.

I also have watched PA and S2 for a few years, raising their families, and am heartbroken too.  I will never understand what makes people do such cruel things like this. 

How adorable they all are!  Thanks!

              Happy birthday, Suzanne!   

Nice video!  Thanks for posting, Ei! NX looked hot when they were holding her.  Hope she's doing OK and will be released soon.

Update on Osprey egg examination:
 
All the Osprey eggs were a similar size of 60mm x 39mm and weight of 50 grams. Tests show the eggs had failed at an early stage of development, also no significant bacteria was found in the eggs. Further examination of egg contents have gone for testing and results will not be back before the autumn.

Great pics!  Right now our Hummers are emptying the feeder about every 3 days and the fights over the food is so entertaining in the evening!  Very territorial!  They zoom right past our noses as we sit on our back deck!     

From CMNH Forum:

With a deep sigh and heavy hearts we regretfully report that our Hillary has died.

On Sunday while we were there, we were told by a lady who walks her dog there that she saw a dead peregrine underneath the I-90 Bridge on the east side of the river on Friday. This lady is a regular here and we’ve talked to her often—she’s looked at peregrines through our scope before, so we figured that she was pretty reliable. And we didn’t see Hillary at all on Sunday, although we saw one juvie (presumably Firework) at the bridge and Titan was up under the bridge through most of the day. In the evening, he was whining as he was perched across from the nest ledge. We tried to find out more from the lead that we had, including crossing the river to check the area where she was supposedly found, but didn’t even find a single feather suggesting she had been there. There was whitewash on the concrete wall nearby and on a rock below, but that didn’t indicate much, as the adults and juvies have perched on the fence over that concrete wall plenty of times.

And then on Tuesday while we were there we got one probable answer to what happened to her-- we saw a new banded female there, mostly staying up in the bridge, but interacting with Titan in various places without either one getting too close to the other. It was notable that this female later perched on an arch of the bridge over the river within the line of view of that spot where Hillary’s body reportedly had been, looking and bobbing downward, especially as people walked with dogs over in that area. So, based on what we know, we believe that this new female killed Hillary. Although the Trichomoniasis that Pirate had can be transmitted by mouth, we don’t believe it’s implicated in her death. We didn’t see the progressive deterioration with Hillary that we saw with Pirate—we saw her Wednesday and she was fine, supposedly the immune systems of adults make them less likely to contract the virus, and the evidence points to a more sudden death following a battle.

We have been able to confirm 3/4ths of the band combination, so we’re about 98% sure we know who the new female is, but we’ll await 100% confirmation to post it here.

As for Hillary, the reason I referred to her as “our� Hillary above is because she’s nobody’s bird, yet also she’s also everybody’s. We never knew where she came from, no one can say that they ever saw her as a chick at a banding, and she likely was never held in human hands. We only know her age because we had the pleasure of getting to see her in her juvenile plumage when she first came into contact with Hilliard’s Buckeye—she’s nobody’s bird because she has been strong and independent as peregrines are as long as we’ve known her. Yet she’s everybody’s bird in that during her nine year life all who have observed her whether in person or through reports and photos have gained something from the experience. We’ll miss her dearly.

 

July 27, 2011

We are sad to report that Sally passed away on Tuesday and Amelia, who was first out of the box, passed away overnight on Wednesday.

Before she died, Amelia was taken to a rehabber because Bob and others had observed some strange behavior. The rehabber picked her up yesterday evening and Amelia seemed to be doing okay.

Right now, it's unknown what caused the deaths of Amelia and Sally. Our biologists are going to perform necropsies (autopsies) on the two birds in order to try to figure out what happened and, more importantly, to try to protect the other two birds.

(How very sad, losing another 2 this season) Fly free girls

And the hits keep on coming this year.   

"What?"    Oh nothing Beauty!!