This is your chance to join a great group of volunteer falcon fledge watchers. We'll meet at the Times Square Bldg Saturday morning at 9 am. On the corner of Exchange and Broad St.

If you can spare some time to help watch over our young falcons on their first flights, please join us. We can sure use your help!

Hope to see you there!

Just to clarify...by the BC Arena/War memorial?

The address is 45 Exchange Blvd.

The eyas banding information page has been updated.

http://shakymon.com/bandtable.html

Quick Summary:

2 females and 1 male

Sundara (F) - Left leg: black 90 over green BA, Right: blue
Name submitted by Carrie Shone

Letchworth (F) - Left leg: red, Right: black 30 over green BW
Name submitted by submitted by Jill Langdon's Kindergarten Class, Helendale Road School, Irondequoit, NY
 
Mike (M) - Left leg: black 28 over green BA, Right: silver
Name submitted by Sue Spicer Allen and selected by Rfalconcam Forum members

Great job, Moderator, despite some awful network glitches!

So great to hear from you, Baerbel! That's terrific news.

I nominate you to be in charge of the fledge watch.

A reminder to anyone coming downtown to watch the banding: do it safely from street level. For your own safety, please do not go up on rooftops.

Stand by for your Banding Day announcers.

UPDATE: Banding won't start until after 10:30 am.

Beauty watching a bee
Front eyas sees it too

Welcome, Rosie!

Welcome, bobsz27!

Guess I can’t do it because I’m using an iPad that doesn’t show a red X and when I click on a name, private chat only comes up...sorry.

The iPad will work. The red X shows up when you click on the post, not the name, and the X is at the end of the post. BUT it won't show up at all unless you are a moderator.

Also, you won't get the Ban option unless you are a moderator. Right now, you only get Private Chat.

I sent you a PM with details on how to become a moderator.

And the winners are

Female: Marielle, with 15 votes, submitted by Eileen McKelvey of O'Fallon, MO

Male: Mike with 17 votes, submitted by Sue Spicer Allen of Rochester

Neutral: Hawking, with 11 votes, submitted by Catherine Reinisch's 6th grade Literacy class at Algonquin Middle School in Averill Park, NY

Congratulations to all!

A reminder that only one eyas will receive one of these names. Since the gender-neutral name Hawking received the fewest votes, it will not take precedence over the male and female names. The eyas will be named Mike if it is male or Marielle if it is female.

I check in on chat once in a while but, if on, I would help.  How does it work? Delete & ban?

It's really simple. To delete a post, click on the red X. To ban a user, click on the name and select Ban.

Ustream has changed the chat feature on our streaming video page. This is nothing we have control over.

The new chat allows anyone to post a message without having to log in first. While logging into the old "Social Stream" was always a bit of a pain, it also deterred trolls from posting inappropriate messages because they were forced to create an account first, and that account could be deactivated if they didn't behave. The only way to handle trolls on the new chat is to have a moderator ban them and delete their posts. Of course, the trolls will simply change their nickname and continue creating havoc, but good moderators will keep banning them until they get bored and finally give up.

So we are looking for chat moderators. As a moderator, your duties would be pretty simple: any time you are watching streaming video, if you see inappropriate posts in chat, delete them and ban the poster. It will only take a couple of mouse clicks.

Anyone interested?