You put a big flower pot on the balcony..one of those large orange ceramic ones and fill it up with earth then some pebbles on top....pretend you are growing errr...a tree    but oh no, look what happened a falcon has laid her eggs there...

She's just plain gorgeous-all grown up on us! The adrenaline is still racing thru me 2 hours later! Sure wish y'all could have been on that balcony with me!!! 

You should set up a nest box on that balcony, MAK!!!

Yes she'll need a box so she doesnt' decide she wants B's!!

She's beautiful and she has her grandma's (Madame X) speckles too I notice  

Glad you and the family are okay NCA.  Hope everyone else is too, scary times.

Oh look 'the kids' are home for breakfast this morning 

 

I can see some immature feathers on this bird in MAK's photos or I'm imagining it? but I do see brown so she could indeed be Billie. 

 C&C have a good explanation of molting on their FB page with photos. 

As per C&C: First molts for peregrines are incomplete, meaning that they don't have every feathers replaced by the adult gray (which is why you can often see some remaining brown feathers on a young adult peregrine that has only gone through one molt).

MAKfalcon (MAK): After checking my pics I can say there is definitely at least one 7, possibly two 7's on black. This may very well be Billie At ST

Well wouldn't that be something!  Hope you can confirm her ID soon.  Good detective work as always ladies! 

Miss Pigott has been in her nest box doing some house keeping this morning, she's been there for about a half hour now! 

Maybe GVAS could get involved.  

I was thinking the same thing.  Doesn't FLAP in Toronto talk to building owners about making windows bird safe?

Guess nobody knows here..will have to ask Carly.  I'll ask her your question too, Pat.

They do yes or enlightened owners can ask them and they will advise them on how to make the buildings safe for birds.

Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the concentrated beams of solar energy focused upward by the plant's 300,000 mirrors — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

Federal wildlife investigators who visited BrightSource Energy's Ivanpah plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator's application to build a still-bigger version.

Full article here:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/brightsource-solar-plant-sets-birds-on-fire-as-they-fly-overhead-1.2739512

Great news!  HOpe the reason they were asking was just because the bird has been 'seen' not injured.

I'm thinking the reason why we think we've seen this band before is that in our minds we're combining Billy's 77/AX black/green band with our many BA black/green bands. 

You are probably right. 

No it's tickling my brain too, I know this band number from somewhere.  By 'know', I mean I saw it or one close to it either in video or a photo somewhere.

Chad and Chris put out the word that help is needed to ID a pefa banded Black/Green 77/BA seen in New Jersey.

Here is the facebook post link.

https://www.facebook.com/rob.mueller.9/posts/10153043088666677#!/ChadandChrisOhioPeregrinePage?hc_location=timeline