[Bird of Prey Days 2010]

Bird of Prey Days 2010

April 23-25, 2010
Braddock Bay Raptor Research (BBRR) is proud to present our 22nd annual Bird of Prey Days to be held at Braddock Bay Park, on East Manitou Road in Greece.  If you have ever wanted to see a hawk, owl or eagle up close and personal, attend one of the many educational programs offered to families and individuals of all ages.  Braddock Bay Raptor Research celebrates the spring migration with programs all weekend long, which focus on the raptors and the spectacular migration that is witnessed each year.  For detailed information about this event, download your own copy of our Bird of Prey Days 2010 Event Schedule.

Program highlights will include:

Live Birds of Prey with Paul Schnell featuring Liberty the bald eagle,Friday, April 23rd .
The Rochester Peregrine Falcon Project presented by June Summers of Genesee Valley Audubon, Saturday, April 24th
Live Birds of Prey with Ron Walker and Friends with Feathers–Two presentations on Sunday April 25th
Owl Prowls – Saturday & Sunday morning at 7:30 am
Raptor Banding Demonstrations both Saturday & Sunday
Visit the Hawkwatch all weekend or go on a tour of the Hawk Banding Station

Here's what we have for yellow banded falcons with black/green bands east of Buffalo.

Rochester 2008  22/R  (m)  Zephyr
Rochester 2007  93/V  (f)   Sacajawea

Syracuse  2009  83/Z  (f)   Ardena
Syracuse  2008  98/V  (f)   Jean
Syracuse  2007  (no yellow bands)

Joyce

P.S.  I am in contact with Syracuse, and told them when anything is confirmed, I will let then know.

Shaky -- I know the Rfalconcam Homepage is busy, but is there anyway to include the recent facts of the dates and approximate times when each leg was laid?

Egg #1  April 8 (2:40 pm)
Egg #2  April 10 (11:00 pm)
Egg #3  April 13 (8:45 am)
Egg #4  April 15 (6:43 pm)


 

Great Idea, Great t-shirt!  I plan on getting one, but March 2010 isn't the end of her tour.  Will there be an update to include April, or until her transmitter falls off?

I'd feel better if it said something like "Quest continues on..." below the columns.  Or are you going to have a second shirt that says The Quest Tour Continued?

Joyce

OK...the picture is a bit creepy...but in all these years of watching I never realized they have feather eyelashes!  That main cam is something else!

Wow! What detail...

[Isn't Seneca her mother's daughter!]

Isn't Seneca her mother's daughter!  

Compliments of Chad+Chris - CMNH Forum Thread

"And we'll end with a few shots of Seneca in the sycamore, and then taking off..."

Thanks ezsha. Interesting site.  What a great project for a youngster.  I added their facebook link to my bird related list.

Joyce

Morning, Donna! Boy, do you folks ever get up early over there! At this hour in Ireland, I am having a nice, toasty roll-over and lamenting the rising sounds of the Dawn Chorus - those birds have no manners!!! Have a good one, everyone - another egg maybe??? EGG-cellent! (I will stop this soon...)

Hi Bobbie - What is a "roll-over?  I think there will be three eggs for sure. Then we will have to see if A&B start some serious incubation.  So many of us want to see the egg laying. I go to sleep late and when I wake up in the middle of the night, I usually check.  I'm just glad someone tweets the news, so I can get it where ever I am (even in a meeting at work).

~Joyce

Edit - I was typing this post when it happened!!  The advantage of having cameras from different perspectives.

[Incubation and Brooding]

Incubation and Brooding - as Ei said, incubation usually starts with the next-to-the-last egg. The normal clutch for peregrines is 4 eggs, and may be less for new parents. Development of the first eggs doesn't start (even though they are laid earlier) until proper, consistent temperature begins. The reason they wait until egg laying is nearly finished is so the eggs will hatch close together time-wise.

Check out the article in Imprints archive April 2007:  Incubation – Turning Eggs into Eyases for additional information.

~Joyce

11 bidders

Correction - 5 bidders / 11 bids

Wham13, our local tv station, had a short clip about Beauty and Archer today.  Nice interview with Jim P.  But, they showed times square building and had it captioned as Kodak.  Oy!

See, everyone is still used to saying "The Kodak Falcons"....Now it's the "Times Square" falcons

We have to be careful with saying "Times Square" falcons.  When I was on the Cleveland Board recently, I noticed they follow "Times Square" falcons in New York City.  I guess we better stick to Rochester Falcons (TS Bldg) for now.

I know they are voting on a name for Scouts new mate, he is not banded.

TROOPER   is the name of the new mate.

Thanks so much Ei for posting these pics and news of Seneca. I'm so happy she is doing so well and bathing to boot. I still can't get on the site, so by you sharing what is there is great.  

Beautiful pictures.

They certainly are B-U-TEE-FULL!!!  Ei has posted a comment to the forum about viewers not being able to get on to the site.  I also followed up with the Admin. Maybe they have experienced this with other members.

Don't you just love the falcon bathing?

~Joyce

Yesterday we had a smaller watcher contingent, despite the arrival of a second egg. They seemed to be congregating closer to Exchange Street rather than over the river, and a TV camera appeared to mark the interview of Lord G (though I left my binoculars at home, so I couldn't read his leg bands and make a positive ID).

 

[Hoping the egg holds off for first light in the morning!]

Hoping the egg holds off for first light in the morning!

Check out the IMPRINTS article Some Things to Know About Egg Laying.

There are also some other educational articles in the first issue of IMPRINTS.
See Archive for March 2007