Happy belated birthday MAK! Sounds like you had a fun day!

 

Thanks Carol, I did! 

     This is quite a development! I sure hope O'Connor is okay and yay for Aria. Our local falcon watcher Jeanne, named her. Thanks for the update Carly! 

 

  Glad you had such a great birthday, MAK!

Best wishes for many more falcon-filled birthdays! 


Debbie Z
Reno

Thanks Debbie! 

[Looks like FUNNNN!!!]

http://youtu.be/yaJA2objiFQ



Looks like FUNNNN!!!

This was the first round-we didn't get there in time for it but we saw the second round. We had a great time at this festival today. We were at the far right end behind the chain link fence where the Chunk Norris champion catapult was located. It was a much better view of the pumpkins as they flew out over the water than from behind the launchers. Fun,fun,fun!!!  

Happy Birthday MAK, hope you're enjoying your day.   

Thanks Ruth! I enjoyed it very much.  ;

Happy Birthday!  Hope you are having a great day!!!

Thanks Lynne! It was a great day. 

Happy Birthday MAK, hope you are having a great day!!

Thanks Carly! Had a great day. 

MAK, I wish you a very special birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day, and many thanks for all your falcon reports.

Dot in PA

Thank you Dot!

Thanks Donna! 

1 turns into 2    

Looks like food is involved! 

                            Have a great day Joycie!

I can't imagine seeing 160 Peregrines in one day! 

Hopefully it's still O'Connor at that site. There's been some speculation as to whether it's her or not. Fingers crossed for a positive ID.  

MAK, do you have any update on this possibility? I can't read bands on this site, but I thought this was still O'Connor; a somewhat faded purple band on the right leg, and black/green on the left with two digits on the lower part. O'Connor is black/green M/87. I hope she is still the resident female.

Alison, Bruce went out over the past weekend but the rain and wind hindered his getting a read on the bands.  The plan is to try again this coming weekend.  O'Connor has a predominantly white chest and what we're seeing is a female with major speckles on her chest.  The purple band is faded - you are correct on that but it looks silver more than purple but that could be lighting as a few times I caught a purple hue.  Here are some photos we've caught to show you what I mean about the chest.  The last photo is a real photograph taken by one of our longtime watchers Bailey back in 2015 so you can see what I mean about her chest.  She is behind the babies.

The cam does distort things, there are other photos I have where she does like herself more and the photo obviously is taken in the summer light hence we have to be wary of saying it's not her - I've seen her look very different many times hence why we are going to scope her and see if we can confirm her bands .  I have other screen captures from last year same time and no speckles and from earlier this year and with the kids and again no speckles like this.  She does have some speckles but they aren't on the upper breast like these other 2 photos.

I don't know about you guys but that pic with the babies looks like a different bird from the other two pics. Lighting can make a world of difference so I'm hoping someone can get her band numbers soon.