Video from Dana of 4th egg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug1wosZpo20

3 eggs

Video from Dana of 3rd egg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFkrL_KkkX8

3rd egg was laid on 3/25 at 10:52 pm .

Close up

Dana's stream capture of 2nd egg.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg9dtvSEXg

Dana made a video of Rfalconcam stream highlights of Nova and Neander?s first egg's first day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZ398Wjkdw

Woo hoo!

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 23 at 8:30 PM EDT.

https://www.earthhour.org/

N&N and egg
Nova and egg
Neander's turn

Posted on Falcon Watch Utica on Facebook

The Falcons are Back to an All-night Schedule & Friday?s Intruder Has a Name!
Update for Saturday, March 9, 2024
At least Ares stayed up all night, perhaps trying to curry favor with his mate of 12 years after his short fling with a highly attractive intruder. All kidding aside, Ares brought prey to the nest box 3 times before 6:30 this morning. Ares provided several food gifts to Astrid, some which she took from him directly, others which she drew from his pantry ledges on the State Building. The falcons conducted two ledge displays at the box and they mated about ten times. They continue to guard the box almost constantly, which we believe is a reflection of the recent intruder pressure. Speaking of intruders, yesterday's banded adult female has been identified. Her name is ?Lilac? and she had been banded as a chick in the Rochester nest back in 2016. Her parents were Rochester?s ?Beauty? and ?Dot.ca?. Lilac is now 8 years old. Thank you to Carol and Dana from the Rochester Peregrine Falcon group for this great information. Also thank you to Pat Carey for sending us a couple of pictures of Lilac from 2016. We appreciate it.

https://www.big-green.net/falcon/2024/03/09/the-falcons-are-back-to-an-all-night-schedule-fridays-intruder-has-a-name/

At last I know where to look for the local peregrine cliff nest!

I have known for years that there was a nest on the cliffs of the Shawangunk Ridge near me. It makes the news every year when they close off the climbing routes around it, but since I don't rock-climb I had no idea where to look.

This is a fuzzy view of the ridge-all cliffs along the top. There's another like it to the left and another set on the other side.



Anyway, one of my co-workers is an avid climber but we work opposite shifts. We had a get together the other day so I finally had a chance to ask him. "Sure! It's right over the carriage road at the hairpin turn!"
Turns out he's a birder too and has a well known naturalist from the DEC on speed dial. Since I DO NOT rock climb he showed me a photo of the area and where the closures happen during breeding season. So now I know where to look. The most open area without trees will need a spotting scope, but I hope I can at least see some whitewash to give me more clues.

Very exciting!

 

Rainbow

Toast video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxdoEC0U0OQ

Happy 2024!