That was fun! Thanks!

Looks like the "Blob" spilling over the edges!

 

Beauty's soaked!!!

   What a good mama! Archer needs to fix the leaky roof!   
 

Awesome pics! 

 

That's quite the nest box.

Wow nice digs for your falcons! Did they get a grant or take out a home improvement loan?!  lol 

VERY nice pic Bonnie! Thanks!!!

I hope to see you there sometime! I forgot to mention that if someone else is there when you get there and they have already called security you don't have to. Just the first to arrive has to call in.

Thanks again MAK.

  We are ALL part of the team. We'll need all the help we can get once the kids arrive! 

Hi gang,

Remember our falcon watches in Irondequoit this winter while watching the Ibay pefa? Remember the transmitter gull we saw? I couldn't find where Carol P posted the follow-up.  Sorry if this is a repeat, but in case you didn't hear...Carol found out that the transmitter gull made his way home to Montreal at midnight on April 11th.

Actually, I don't think Carol ever told us the gull was from Montreal or posted a follow-up.  The only thing she told us was it "spoke French" or something like that.  Good to know it made its way home!

This is an email Carol recieved in response to her info on the gulls leg bandthat she forwarded to me on January 30,2011.

Dan Clark forwarded me your message about a radio-transmitter Ring-billed Gull observed yesterday near Rochester. The bird was banded on June 15 last summer on Ile Deslauriers, a breeding colony located 20 km east of Montreal on the St-Lawrence river. We fixed an ARGOS-GPS device to the bird to track its post-breeding dispersal. The bird dispersed in mid-August to the Rochester area (sleeping on flat roofs in an industrial area or on the river that flows through Rochester) and has been there since. The device collected 2 GPS locations/day (noon and midnight) and are transmitted once a week via the ARGOS satellite system. The batteries are recharged with solar panels and we have got no signal from the last 2 weeks. The reason seems to be a failure with the system and not the death of the bird. Cold weather and clouds may have prevent batteries to be recharged enough to transmit the locations. Your sighting is thus very important to us. It is still a bit worrisome that the bird did not fly on the river to join other gulls.... Nevertheless the bird seems in good condition and the device well attached exposing the solar plates as shown by your pictures. We have marked 9 other birds and have lost only one so far. We hope to track them form more than a year to see if they show some fidelity to their post-dispersal site. For XHP, the post-breeding site seems to be also its wintering site unlike the others that moved further south up to Georgia and South Carolina.
 
We have banded few thousands birds with blue and yellow plastic bands with individual codes. If you spot any of our birds, let us know, this would be appreciate.
 
 
Jean-François
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)

Thank you again for your suggestions. It does appear to be canine vestibular syndrome, and so the prognosis is much less scary than originally feared. A quick update:

My almost-puppy is still improving, albeit slowly. She is capable of walking a very short distance on her own, but the rain has made outside difficult because she travels like a drunken soldier. The outside steps are too slippery, so she gets picked up for those. Other than that, she navigates on her own, and rests often. Today she found a space under a bush to hang out, to enjoy the cool air while staying dry. Her head tilt is mostly gone, and she appears much more comfortable now.

She still is eating very little, but she drinks like a fish, so we aren't too concerned, as she has some reserves.

She has yet to bark or talk, but rapid head movements and loud sounds make things worse. (She shook her head and couldn't stay on her feet, so it makes sense that she doesn't want to give herself a disabling headache by barking.)

All in all, things look much better from this end of the week!

Thank you again!
ezsha

  Glad she's doing better.

Can someone give me a better idea of where Unity's nest is. Kodak Park is a big place? I live about 2 miles from there and am very interested.

This is the power plant on Weiland Rd. off Ridgeway Ave. at Kodak Park. If you go, you must park in lot 77 only and call Kodak security @722-2121. Give your name and tell them you are there to watch the falcons. 

Thank you, that puts them a lot closer to where I live then I thought. Maybe I will get a chance to get there and see Unity and Archer this summer since I do not go downtown.

I hope to see you there sometime! I forgot to mention that if someone else is there when you get there and they have already called security you don't have to. Just the first to arrive has to call in.

 

Can someone give me a better idea of where Unity's nest is. Kodak Park is a big place? I live about 2 miles from there and am very interested.

This is the power plant on Weiland Rd. off Ridgeway Ave. at Kodak Park. If you go, you must park in lot 77 only and call Kodak security @722-2121. Give your name and tell them you are there to watch the falcons. 

I'm very thankful it was not from poison that this poor mama passed to the other side. 

Archer's back and he found another white feather!!

The other pic is from last night, feather seemed to have vanished. He even looks different.

if you look really close the white feather is just peeping out from behind a colored feather, he was hiding it from you Donna.