Poor Beauty, it's already started.  I can hear her on the cam and saw the swooping. 

Me too...DC, son of Jack, a very capable male with great bloodlines that should be carried on! We need more than one little Dotca out there!

just because we don't know UT's bloodline doesn't mean they aren't great too. You just like DC best because he is a Canada boy    I just don't like the way he treats Beauty.

Frank actually rescued him the year he fledged and got stuck on a glass balcony - much to DC's mortification.   

Egg #2 for Valentine (as she's been named) and Antonio  

SuzanneH has posted a photo of the two eggs:

http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=364&t=1398&start=260

  UT? Don't quite see a band.

His legs look bare in the blow up. 

In a stunning turn of events...OR2 is back!!  Anniet has posted photo of her leg band and she was seen accepting food from Pa!

http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=382&t=1429&start=100

I know this probably isn't funny...but at first glance when I saw that shot of Beauty and her stance and face...my first thought was she was looking like 'oh crap he's back'.  

Busted for having a little dalliance while waiting for the Main Man?
Carol
WV

 


Ps:  Joyce, you are correct.  'Y' is used most often up here to denote males and 'X' is for females - the past few years anyway.  I know in the last 2 years they've started using other letters because they were running out of number/letter combinations.  I know at Jack's other site they used 'w' the one year for the boys. 

I know this probably isn't funny...but at first glance when I saw that shot of Beauty and her stance and face...my first thought was she was looking like 'oh crap he's back'.  

Just trying to find something to smile about; hopefully tomorrow will see all Rochester falcons safe and sound. 

Thanks to MAK and Carol for going back out there!  You guys rock!

I have them up side by side on my pc - a photo I saved from the cam last year of him and beauty in the same pose and looks like DC to me...I uploaded to flickr but it won't allow me to uplaod the full size so you won't be able to tell but the markings look the same in that position.  The difference today is in the primaries...something looks funny in the back end but if he's been scuffling that would make sense.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carly77/8566085131/#in/photostream

Any kind of human interference/disturbance or other falcons coming through can have them perching in different places.  I've certainly seen that at Etobicoke many times.

I don't know what kind of work is being done but if humans are around, our guys avoid the nest ledge because their view is limited to one direction from there.  They tend to perch in a more open space  where they get a better view of the territory from all directions and make a quick getaway if need be or if it's an intruder so they don't cornered.

Back in November, both O'connor and Jack spent over a week perched on a building we very rarely see them on and staring North - it was the strangest thing and they didn't go near the nest ledge during that time.  Tracy thought they likely had a challenge for the territory and she certainly knows falcon behaviour from her many years of experience.  And then one day, everything was back to normal as if nothing had happened.

Egg, egg, egg...the sub adult laid an egg!!  Oh happy day!!   

Ferenz posted photos over at BCAW!!

http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=364&t=1398&p=229141#p229141

Thanks for showing your parade on the cam - very cool to watch 

Several people have been checking band pics of the Woodmen male for quite sometime, trying to determine when Zeus was no longer Hera's mate. Zeus' bands were identified in 2010 but purple band is seen in posted pics from 2011 and 2012 and nobody at Woodmen knew it until it was recently brought to their attention!

http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20130315%2FNEWS%2F130319446%2F1685

Thanks for posting this Kris.  I posted it over at BCAW - with credit to you - so the girls can see it since they've been investigating it!  That explains what I saw yesterday when I was home too with the arm moving around and the camera being set up.

New egg for Dorothy while I was out.  SGB has it down as of 12:07 pm today!  

Wow...just came in the door to this news!  Awww..I'm so glad he's got some company.  It will never be the same without BB but as you say life must go on and at least now he's got a mate for nesting season and will stay at the site for all his fans to enjoy.

It looks like Yankee. He has blk/blk band. We did not get out today but will check tomorrow. If anyone see any activity in or  out of the box, I hope you can grab some screencaps or at least tell us what you witnessed. Without his mate, Yankee could just leave the vicinity. I'm hoping he can find a loose falcon flying through the area and will appreciate his nice heated condo!

Too bad we couldn't send Pigott over to him.  She have a nice condo and she'd be close to her sister too    Maybe MAK could have a chat with her tomorrow and put the idea in her head