I guess all the "museum pieces" from last night's interior decoration of the nestbox have been EATEN.

From Chris:

April 18 – [3:00 AM] As you can see, things are almost back to normal. The ants are gone, the bedding in the box has been replaced, the three neatly beheaded cedar waxwings which were cached in the box were rendered ant free by being submerged in a bucket of water for more than an hour (any ants remaining alive on them must have gills), each owlet received a detailed medical inspection and treatment for the tiny black parasites we found on all of them, the box is back in the tree, and Mme. Owl returned to the owlets about half an hour after I picked-up all of my stuff and cleared out of the area.

The only lingering problem was that the youngest owlet had injuries to the eyelids of its still-closed eyes, and some injuries to the surrounding areas. These appear to have been the work, not of the ants, but of the tiny black parasites we found on all of the owlets. The state of the youngest's eyes was uncertain, so my raptor rehabber friend Sallie took owlet no. 4 to her home for more intensive care. The hope is that the owlet will recover with no serious injuries, and can be returned to the nest in a week or two. So, for the moment, we're down to three owlets, and Mme. Owl was very upset about that when she first returned and did an owlet count. (Evidently, screech owls can count to four, or, at a minimum, they can differentiate between three and more-than-three.)

Since then, Sallie returned to her home with owlet no. 4 and started working on the little guy/gal. She has reported that the injuries to the eyelids and face were not as serious as they first appeared; a small, dark feather from one of the cedar waxwings had become, in effect, glued across the eyelids by dried blood and parasite feces. The feather is gone, and the affected areas cleaned-up. In the meantime, owlet no. 4 has been fed a bellyful of minced mouse, and is sleepy comfortably in an incubator. With luck, no. 4's actual injuries will heal rapidly enough to allow its return to the nest sooner than expected.

Photos and whatnot later.

Ei,

I certainly didn't mean to make more work for you!  I bet as a group we can fairly easily come up with a bunch of that data; for example, the last time I have a record of Linn being seen was by Mark Nash in 5/09, in Scarborough. 

...and you had a thread last June called "Updated Banding Table"
http://rfalconcam.com/forum/index.php?topic=2592.msg18730#msg18730
with a bunch of info...
e.g., "Ihteram was positively ID'd in...I'm thinking 2008...in Macomb county Michigan."

Was the last time Zephyr was seen when he was hanging with Mariah?

what else? I'm tired or I'd play with the "search" function a bit more tonight...

One nice feeding shot and one really insane-looking one, like spending the night in a museum.

that one looks like a huddle: "She's gone hunting!!!  Let's party!"

4 cool shots from just now - sure does look like last call in certain establishments

I don't know. As happens every year, it's starting to look like a Bosch painting in there.
I don't know what that is. People leave weird things lying around sometimes.
Which of these images is from 1500 and which from today?

compliments, Mark, on a fine subject line

Right. I remembered Linn, Quest, Ihteram, and Zephyr - I assumed the ones already listed as deceased or as having offspring of their own - the others, the ones who were spotted but not dead and not reproducing, are the ones not indicated in any way!

(valuable additional info to compile insofar as we know that those birds also survived at least until they were sighted!).

Right. I remembered Linn, Quest, Ihteram, and Zephyr - I assumed the ones already listed as deceased or as having offspring of their own - the others, the ones who were spotted but not dead and not reproducing, are the ones not indicated in any way!

Thanks, Ei and Shaky!

Which other Mariah/Kaver offspring have been positively identified in various places, besides those 4 I mentioned? Anyone remember who I'm forgetting?

1. I tried to post the following thought (#2) in "Rochester Falcon Offspring" but did not find the usual "Start New Topic" button on the top right. Is that section closed for some reason? It was posted in quite recently.

2. It might be fun to have, in addition to the family tree (or perhaps somehow incorporated into it?), a place to record, not sightings in contexts that produced more falcons, but simply mentions of the most recent/last sighting of a bird after its first summer; for example, Linn was last sighted (as far as I remember) in 2009 in Scarborough, with a mate; Quest, Zephyr, and Ihteram have also been seen and identified - just what I remember offhand. There may already be this sort of compilation (or it may have been discussed at length) - sorry for my ignorance, if so.

yup. four distinct aliens, resting after their long trip from another galaxy.

Oh, yeah - there's no way that's 3 birds.

Paul, I believe you may be right - we may be 4 for 4

yes, we are looking a bit peaked, if not downright belligerent.