And comparing the 1st 2 weeks with last year

 

Thanks, Ei.

It takes them about a week to settle into a 6 shifts/day pattern.

The cameras are back again.

The post-full moon was visible last night.




Speaking of the moon. exactly one year from today, the moon will eclipse the sun over a large swath of North America from Mexico to Canada, and beginning at 3:20 PM EDT Rochester will experience totality. Fingers crossed that it will be a sunny day like today.

The 4 eggs in color

Alison Brown forwarded me this.

From Canadian Peregrine Foundation FB page-
March 21 at 6:13 PM
DON MILLS : Before the season starts, I just want to say a proper goodbye to another one of our resident peregrines, Mystery. He was a great mate to Quest since 2016. They had 22 successful hatches and fledges (tho some were lost after). He was a great Dad, taught his young well, looked out for them, fed them and was always on the alert! He was famous for his many, many alarm calls, which his young picked up quickly and were known to join in on the calls lol. I loved watching their interactions... He would try so hard to get egg time and then try to look after or feed the kids but Quest would only give him small amounts of time... It was so funny and cute. He will be missed.

But there are posts on the real Peregrine Foundation website with a hint that there is a new man, Quest's son from a couple of broods ago: http://peregrine-foundation.ca/w/c/sightings/toronto-don-mills/

3 eggs up close and personal

It did for a while.

Eggs

Thanks.

And with our first egg laid, we'll be shutting off the cameras for Earth Hour.

Fixed thanks to June and Drew Summers.

A reminder that Rfalconcam will turn off the cameras at the nest boxes located on the Times Square and Powers buildings for one hour on Saturday, March 25 at 8:30 PM EDT.

https://www.earthhour.org/

Channels 3 and 4 and Cameras 5-8 are offline until further notice.

I've tried everything I can to restore this camera. The equipment inside the building is working fine. So the problem is either in the camera itself or in the cabling outside the building. Since the falcons have returned for the season, we can't go outside to fix the problem until this fall.

Thanks for trying. Here's hoping it decides to behave once the weather warms up.

Who knows. Stranger things have happened.

All fixed except for Cam 4.