trying to get good shot but her face is bloodied .

Well that's not good,  can only imagine how the female is.  Thanks Bev.

SGB managed to get the cam.  She's posted some photos over at BCAW.  Looks like 2 eggs have been lost.  Belle may have an injury but hard to tell she is back now on the 2 eggs.  Hopefully they'll do a ground search there to see if the other female needs a rescue or retrieval since Belle looks like she's not the badly bloodied up one.

Thanks for alerting us to this situation.

http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=351&t=1703&p=289557#p289557

OMG...that's horrific.  I can't get this cam at work but I've posted a link to here over at BCAW as someone there may be able to help keep a watch out. 

Dot.ca wants to feed his egg.  

He's so cute with the egg  

 

Congratulations 

It was two years ago yesterday, April 6, that we lost Unity.  She was a brave and pretty falcon who deserved a much longer life.  Rest in peace and fly free, Unity.   

 

     

[We can say with 99% certainty that this is Seven, hatched at the Niagara Gorge nest site in 2012 to Diamond and Onyx]

BREAKING NEWS!! Hunter Has a Girlfriend at Mount Sinai!!!
April 07, 2014 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Tracy Simpson Reports:

Last weekend Linda, Bruce and I followed up on an observation made by Linda that something was different at the Mount Sinai nest site.  A male was hanging around being quite visible and a second bird had made a brief appearance.  On March 30th, the three of us gathered down at University and Gerrard for a day of observations and we weren’t to be disappointed.  It was then that we confirmed the presence of a second bird, not a passerby, staying within the territory and working things out with the male in the area who we had yet to confirm as Hunter.  As the light was fading that Sunday, we agreed that this warranted further investigation and yesterday we set up for a full day of watching.

We found the male on the east side of Mount Sinai in the second ledge from the north and the female in the third.  Not only is she easy to distinguish based on her size but also her constant vocalizations at the male.  There were several flights during the morning and early afternoon and each time the male took flight, she would follow along behind him wherever he went.  The male was prone to land and roost on places that Hunter had always used in the past leading us to believe that it may still be him, but who was she?

It wasn’t until midday that we really got a period of time with them both hanging around Mount Sinai for a good look at them.  The male flew into the north ledge of the hospital and that started quite a ruckus.  He had food.  He had retrieved a cache from that ledge and flew around to the east side of Mount Sinai to a nook just below their ledge of interest for potential nesting.  The female came bombing in screaming her head off and picked his pocket.  She now had herself a pigeon and was eating away while he flew up to the ledge above for a nap seeing as she was now occupied.  It was then that we were able to get a good look at her and she is absolutely banded…  …backwards.  Her USFW is on her left leg and her Canadian recovery band on her right.  We were then able to get a look at the recovery band briefly and saw that the top letter is an X and of the double digit on the bottom we could clearly see it started with a 9.  There is only one bird with this band configuration and combination making her ID fairly easy.  We can say with 99% certainty that this is Seven, hatched at the Niagara Gorge nest site in 2012 to Diamond and Onyx. Some of you will remember that last year in April she busied herself stirring up trouble at the ADM Mills nest site in Port Colbourne and was photographed intruding upon the local pair.  It seems that she is now settled at the Mount Sinai Hospital with a male.

After eating she sought him out again and started to vocalize and pester once more.  There were several flights by the pair and she finally settled herself in the second ledge on the east side where we witnessed him flying in and and mating with her.  This settled her down for a while and the two napped and preened on the east side for the rest of the afternoon.  Things became active again just after 5pm when the pair set out on a hunt.  Unlucky in their attempts, Seven flew up to the Hakim Optical building where she found a cache on the northwest corner and the male retrieved his own stash from the IA building.  He flew out and up to the top corner in the sun to eat and it was then that we clearly could see the Black over Green H/D recovery band confirming Hunter as the resident male hatched in 2000 at the Rhodes Office Tower in Ohio. Seven joined him on the building where they mated a second time after which he went off to the east ledges of Mount Sinai for a nap and she flew up to the Intact sign to preen.

This is excellent news for the Mount Sinai nest site!  We will have to wait and see what this means for the nesting season and whether they achieve success in hatching young.  Most certainly this territory will now be on our watch list and we will keep you updated on their progress.  I want to thank Bruce and Linda for a great day of discovery and look forward to the season to come with these two awesome birds.

Pictures will follow later today after a I have had a chance to tidy them up!

I don't think in the all the years I've watched Beauty that I've ever seen her perched up there.  I'm sure she has but I just don't have a memory of it 

First egg for Madame X and Surge in Hamilton! 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26850709 

           

This is horrific! WHY???   

Shallow gene pool of aristocratic land owners that still think they're living in medieval times.

Can see the egg better here!

 

Holy smokes...hatch at MEC Mississauga!!!  SGB caught it!!!  I posted her scaps to CPF just now!  We're all in shock!!

 

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/w/

Egg #3 just laid for O'Connor and Jack at Etobicoke.  A few days late but here at last. 

Dorothy expelled the egg. Will she recover now? Does this mean her egg-laying days are over? What about the eggs in the scrape now?

Well Kate tweeted earlier that she and E2 were seen mating this afternoon ..so she's obviously recovered!  I don't know what the future will bring...my first experience personally with hen-o-pause in action.  In other elder falcons I've seen on cams, they just stopped laying eggs entirely..no issues like this.

I should also point out that KathyQ is 15 this year and she just laid 4 eggs, so is SW in Cleveland.  And we have Erin and WW here who are both 16 this year - so we'll see if they lay eggs successfully.  Learning experience for all of us.