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wnyfalconfan (Joyce): Saw 1 more - an adult bald eagle = 5. Plus 3 red-tails. One was carrying something big and black.

Old Glory returns to the Powers Building after high winds a few weeks ago forced it to be taken down.

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Camera 4 before and after replacement

Yesterday evening
Same time this evening

Main Camera is working again, providing high-res still photos of the nest box at Times Square. Camera 4 has also been replaced with one that produces higher quality images.

To reduce the load on our server now that Main Camera is once again uploading large files, Camera 6 and Camera 7 will no longer be uploading photos. However, streaming video from these cameras will still be available for your viewing pleasure.

Carol found the yellow tape from Rachel's band near the nest box. (Remember it fell off shortly after banding?) We probably would have seen it if Main Cam had been working at the time.

A thing of beauty! Thank you Shaky & Carol!  

You're very welcome! Lots of hard work, but having main cam back, made it well worth it!  We even visited with Glowz, who supervised the whole cam replacement.  

When we started, Beauty flew by a few times, then watched us from the top of Mercury. After we were finished, DC flew over us a few times before settling somewhere nearby. Nice to see both of them showing interest in the TSB nest box.  

June and Jenny pitched in too with the wiring and ropes.

Glad I'm off that ledge. I don't like heights, and my knees like kneeling even less.

Camera 4 is a different model camera than before -- not as wide an angle. They don't make that old model anymore. Hopefully it won't be as dark as the old camera at night.

Main Camera and Camera 4 at the Times Square nest box will be replaced Monday. All of the Times Square cameras will be turned off for a few hours while this work takes place.

Just a reminder that the cameras at TSB will be down later this morning and into the afternoon.

Breakfast at Mercury's

Turn your head 90 degrees clockwise and look at Windy's face.

It'll be so good to have a new main cam!

It will be back to what it was in May before the old camera died.

Hey, that's cool! It was giving us beautiful stills in May. 

Is it a refurbished old main cam?

It's a replacement of the same model.

It'll be so good to have a new main cam!

It will be back to what it was in May before the old camera died.

The cameras at Powers are clean and readjusted to give better views of any falcons that happen to stop by.  Also, we can see all 4 cameras simultaneously on streaming video.

Main Camera and Camera 4 at the Times Square nest box will be replaced Monday. All of the Times Square cameras will be turned off for a few hours while this work takes place.

Also, the cameras at the Powers Building nest box will be cleaned and adjusted in about an hour from now. Better get it done now before the weather gets too cold.

Ospreys who have nested for ten years on the steeple of a church on Anna Maria Island have now lost their nest. The church was fumigated, using poisonous gas, and the nest taken down. Poor ospreys. 



https://www.islander.org/2017/11/but-church-fumigation-results-in-osprey-eviction-from-steeple/

When did Antonio Perez move to Anna Maria Island?

The nest box at Great Spirit Bluff was taken down, and a new nest box has now been installed. Apparently this was done in an attempt to deal with the bloodsucking insects which have killed a number of chicks over the years.

The area has some very pretty scenery, but I still think that the site itself is too dangerous and unsuitable for chicks, with a sheer drop of some 600 feet from the nest box and no space for the chicks to strengthen their flight muscles before fledging. It has long been recognized in Europe that some kind of platform or deck or other exercise area is necessary to give the chicks a better chance to fledge successfully.

I wish that the new nest had been installed in a safer location.





More information:

https://www.facebook.com/RaptorResourceProject/photos/pcb.1509887962381151/1509876672382280/?type=3&theater

Is that a nest box or a cliff wart?

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wnyfalconfan (Joyce): High Falls...Wow! https://t.co/LqTuFDmUP8

Link:
http://twitter.com/wnyfalconfan/statuses/927266336052477952

Is it spring already?