Heritage Trail Portraits at West Main & Broad Street. Can you name the people in the Murals?  

The one on the left is Grandma Gladys.

Time for a nap.

How apropos that he went to the northeast corner of the falcony.

Beauty must have been preparing for Saturday's Fledge Watch meeting as the library.

The eyases are so mobile now!

(movie)

Just wait until they hop over the perch and head out into the poop-free zone.

Poop-free zone?? There's a poop-free zone??

For now.

 

Not so poop-free anymore

Just the plank at the very edge.

The eyases are so mobile now!

(movie)

Just wait until they hop over the perch and head out into the poop-free zone.

Poop-free zone?? There's a poop-free zone??

For now.

The eyases are so mobile now!

(movie)

Just wait until they hop over the perch and head out into the poop-free zone.

Why not hold the banding outside at a local park only a short distance from the Times Square Building. Then most of the issues go away .  I know you all are on some kind of time clock to get them out banded and back but is that really necessary since they are older and hardy compared to the 10 day old eyas being transported for fostering into nest boxes across states and who bounce back very well.. I'm sure a short transport wouldn't harm or stress the little ones any further if they were kept hydrated. Not across the county but just blocks away to a staging area. I can picture Watchers in their matching tees with placards holding back the masses. Was the last public banding the first time Beauty had offspring after our Kaver and Mariah disappeared? Maybe that stirred up more of a frenzied interest. Are their public bandings in Canada or out west held anywhere else off site from the nesting area?
Then again there's always the exception Tesh    Never seen an eyas down on their back for a half hour .. That's really one for the record books lol

Liability concerns. Logistics concerns. Security concerns. Jurisdiction concerns. Just to name a few.

Banding Day videos

These videos show the retrieval of the eyases, the collection of samples from the nest box, the camera cleaning, and the return of the eyases.

Channel 1:
The action starts 1 hour into the video at 10:22 AM.

http://youtu.be/i_zxitKFqTk?t=1h

Channel 2 - Part 1:
The action starts 1 hour, 27 minutes into the video at 10:22 AM. For some reason, the audio quit just minutes before banding.

http://youtu.be/hLJ_bpwjbt8?t=1h27m32s

Channel 2 - Part 2:
Channel 2 crashed during the banding and had to be restarted. This video starts 10 minutes after the end of Part 1. The audio is back.

http://youtu.be/NqekQGEth2c

Banding Day videos

These videos show the retrieval of the eyases, the collection of samples from the nest box, the camera cleaning, and the return of the eyases.

Channel 1:
The action starts 1 hour into the video at 10:22 AM.

http://youtu.be/i_zxitKFqTk?t=1h

Channel 2 - Part 1:
The action starts 1 hour, 27 minutes into the video at 10:22 AM. For some reason, the audio quit just minutes before banding.

http://youtu.be/hLJ_bpwjbt8?t=1h27m32s

Channel 2 - Part 2:
Channel 2 crashed during the banding and had to be restarted. This video starts 10 minutes after the end of Part 1. The audio is back.

http://youtu.be/NqekQGEth2c

Link to the updated band table http://shakymon.com/bandtable.html

Link to the updated band table http://shakymon.com/bandtable.html

Little stinker, scared us all stiff too!  I can breathe now! 

And thank you to DEC for sticking around to make sure all was well...

Yes big thank you and big sigh of relief. 

Oh my - I had to walk away from computer.  Just came back, and it's like a miracle!  Heat or dehydration? 
Did the eyases get weighed and checked out?  Will there be a report?

They don't get weighed here, but they are given a general health check. We usually don't hear anything  if all is well, which it usually is.

I really don't know what happened. I wonder if it toppled over & froze like they do when they're threatened. The other 3 barely moved that whole time but they were right side up so they looked OK. They all finally moved when Beauty came to the perch.

DEC reported during banding that she had a very full crop. That might have played a part.

Stand by for your banding moderators.

Welcome, lanisprout!

Our dog answers to Goofus more than Sparky....

Ok I don't understand.  Males are males, females are females (so far I understand), but I thought gender-neutral was if another name was needed or it wasn't determined for sure on male/female.

The gender is never determined for sure. There is always some doubt. But regardless of the amount of doubt, DEC always assigns a gender. So in your scenario, a gender-neutral name would never be used because DEC would never say they are not sure of the gender.

If a male would be Mercury, why would a female go by the gender-neutral name and not the female name that came out on top?  I realize Genesee was second by total votes, but why use a name designated at gender-neutral if it didn't have to be?  It just doesn't seem right. 

These are the rules that have been used for years.

When name suggestions are solicited, we give everyone a chance to submit a name. Rather than limiting the choices to gender-neutral names because the gender of the eyases are not known at that time, we allow people the option of submitting a pair of gender-specific names.

A fair poll is created for each of the three "gender" classes where the most popular name in each class is chosen. At this point, there have to be some objective criteria that only one name can meet. The first criterion is receiving the most votes, or in the case of a tie, receiving the most nominations (and in the case of a second tie, winning a coin toss). The second criterion is to be appropriate for the gender of the eyas. The name that meets these two criteria is the name that is given to the eyas. Genesee meets both criteria for a female eyas. Mercury meets both criteria for a male eyas.

Last year, Rosetta meet both criteria for a female eyas. The year before, Orion met both criteria for a male eyas.