And still there: Beauty

She left at 1.34 pm

 

Beauty?

Thank you for all birthday wishes! Yesterday I had a nice day.

Happy birthday for you!      

Every morning you are out early to see the falcons and to report on them. That is great! Thank you for it!  

Trying again....Shaky, what do you mean it said mainframe?? I just copied the url from the pic!! I never had a problem before!! 

Click on the picture in my post and you see the error.

Looks good Shaky, now all we need is something to show up!! 

My computer says picture not found

  Happy birthday and many exciting falcon watchs!       

[The waiting game]

The waiting game

Little to report up the Concrete Hilton just at the moment. We’re in that phase of waiting to see if Beau and Swift are interested in mating again this season. Certainly, as viewers have noticed, Swift is spending plenty of time resting in the eyrie – today of all days it may well be a way to remove herself from the extreme weather conditions. Currently there is a Total Fire Ban across most of New South Wales, with very high winds and a large number of bushfires blazing further east. We are anticipating a weather change soon which should cool temperatures and give the firefighters a break, but for the peregrines it will merely mean a more comfortable existence.

Some of our early-morning Banjo’s Bistro staff on campus noticed some aerial and very verbal frolicking this morning. With some luck this is all part of the initial courtship routine. We can but hope for now…

For those still having problems in accessing the website and receiving malware warnings from Google, please be assured we’re clean. The preferred domain name – www.falconcamproject.org – is still blacklisted which amuses us as the website itself isn’t…. c’mon Google – catch up with the real world!

This week we hope to convert the old ledge camera recording server feed to the brand new HD ledge camera feed on our Milestone Surveillance Server. We will be up for a much larger hard drive to store as much footage as possible for this new camera too. Currently we use a single 2TB external WD HDD for the nest camera, and will do same for the ledge camera as well. The task at hand now is to upgrade this old but very reliable surveillance server computer itself to something of more modern vintage, to handle the anticipated much heavier workload. In normal circumstances this 2 TB drive is offering us around 30 days continual/motion-sensor archives for a single camera, which in itself in invaluable.


Getting friendly in the eyrie

Some very promising signs in the eyrie this afternoon. With one or both peregrines hanging around the tower all day there seems to be a growing interest in each other right now. Caught just a few minutes ago the pair bowing in the scrape! Video clips will be going back up soon…


Beau and Swift bowing

Cute panda baby!

[falconcamproject.org]

Published 8 October, 2013

Project work is getting back on track now after various interruptions recently, most notably a campus-wide power outage on Saturday, which would’ve definitely affected our streaming feeds. All is well again now. Some viewers have noticed that the connection to either camera can take a long time to bring up – we’re putting it down at the moment to the large bandwidth we’re using for the feeds, so we may have to cut back on this to allow more efficient streaming. Testing is ongoing.

Swift and Beau are now sitting on thin air. The 3rd egg has been cleaned out and both birds have been happier sitting on top of the tower or around on the old unused microwave dish (best views in Orange!). We can now watch and hope that there will be a second mating as it’s stil early in the season. Our first observed season, resulting in eyas Migii, didn’t occur until end of November and in to December (fleding in to the new year) so we can but cross fingers that progress will be made – in terms of FalconCam Project this is uncharted territory.

If we’re able to soon we’ll head in to the box to try and extract any remaining eggshell portions to see if we can get them tested – call it a health check!

In the meantime stick with us and we’ll see where this 6th observed season goes from here.

A reminder for anyone posting comments that you can leave messages on these news posts by opening up the post itself via the heading and then posting notes at the bottom. Thanks again for all your support and comments. It makes for better, more interesting reading!


Idle time on the ledge, in HD

P.S. For anyone using our correct domain name to access this website – falconcamproject.org – we apologise on behalf of Google for messing you around still. The website is indeed 100% clean and is currently being monitored a few times every day to ensure we stay that way. Google have finally cleared the website for general consumption but for some reason will not clear from their own blacklist the preferred domain name which appears on our advertising and inserts. Apologies to everyone who’s still receiving warnings from Google – we’re good to go and will speak personally to Google when they finally show themselves!!

Uh-oh.  Glowz will not be happy.  He/she will have to get to work again.   

Maybe Shaky can take her home with him!! 

Dana's Tweet didn't come through yet so...here it is!

Pic of juvie at RS today (Billy?)

Gorgeous pictures!

Super shot! 

Putting this here as per Dana's Tweet

Juvie at Russell Station!  BILLY??

Splendid falcon pictures!