You've captured some very striking photos.  I would have a tough time trying to pick just one for the blue ribbon.  Wonderful collection Bonnie!

Joyce

Please be careful when using rfalconcamNOW.  Putting an @ sign before name doesn't stop watchers getting tweets. Thanks.

Hey there...it's pretty hot on the veranda!

In light of Ei's comments...

After talking with Mark Nash yesterday, he explained that all of Southern Ontario has experienced a lower than normal nest count. Some with no eggs, others with failed nestsites. Apparently this has been documented previously, that the change in weather has a major effect on the birds.  Even falconers who breed and raise young, have experienced the same in a captive environment this year.  Mark mentioned the mild winter, very rainy and cold spring.  He said other factors can affect the nesting, but when this occurs over an entire region, it is most likely Mother Nature.

Personally, I think Beauty's instinct knows something is amiss. Now she relinquishes more to Archer.

Does anyone know what is the longest time for hatch?

[H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y K A T H Y O ! Hope your day is filled with eveything you wish for!]

H A P P Y  B I R T H D A Y  K A T H Y  O !

Hope your day is filled with eveything you wish for!

Aafke asked me to make a card for you...but I fell asleep.  What else is new!  Aafke wishes you a very Happy Birthday because she wouldn't be around.

Of course I wish you a a big Peregrine HUG!     Wonder if anyone knows what a peregrine hug is...Well it's that warm and snuggly feeling when you know you are loved.  How many times have we seen that with an eyas and its parent..

Have a wonderful day!  Maybe a pip on your birthday. 


Joyce

[black /green, 98/V.]

Good News! I notified the Buffalo DEC that I am 99.9% positive "Jean" from Syracuse (2008) is the female at the Buffalo grain elevators along the lake shore. I think she has been in that area for more than a year because I once spotted a yellow band on a falcon flying around there (hoping it was Zephyr). The is no yellow band anymore, but I was able to photograph different views and piece together black /green, 98/V.

On Tuesday morning May 10th I stopped by hoping to see the new nestbox occupied.  Then I went over to the abandoned grain elevator and found a falcon sitting on the far back roof.  I was there from 6:30am to 8am taking pictures of this falcon while it remained in the same place.  I sat on a rock waiting and hoping for this bird to move its legs.  Finally, I saw the silver band and then the black/green on left leg.

It wasn't until I saw a photo posted by Sage on facebook, that prodded me to look at my photos.  I removed the memory card from my camera, and never got around to viewing my pictures.  It didn’t occur to me that I might have caught a band ID.

See photos at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150183421740986.308726.666525985&l=57895765d0

No pip yet...

Since Beauty started incubating late, mid July sounds very good.  Plus if we have babies at Kodak Park, they will be even later than that.  Sounds like a plan!

Patti, that's terrible...2 years in a row not making it.  You'll be missed.

No pips that I can see at 6:13 am...

Beauty wants back on those eggs...


Beauty checks out the eggs...

Beauty switches with Archer again...


Beauty stays close by...

She's back on the eggs again...

Yesterday evening a parent sits outside the nest while the eyases huddle with one another - on the perch ...comes in to check on babies, and four cuties looking for attention.

Hi gang,

Remember our falcon watches in Irondequoit this winter while watching the Ibay pefa? Remember the transmitter gull we saw? I couldn't find where Carol P posted the follow-up.  Sorry if this is a repeat, but in case you didn't hear...Carol found out that the transmitter gull made his way home to Montreal at midnight on April 11th.

Pictures from UB webcam on 5-10-11...

They are so precious...