What about this crow scaring program that just started?  Was it near Beauty's nestbox or in her territory at all?.

I'm so glad someone found her.  Please be okay Beauty, sending healing thoughts to her  

Do we know if Unity is safe and okay?

Woohoo great news and great work Frank and Tracy on finally confirming the ID's!! 

...date to be determined...can now include a trip to Canada!  My passport arrived today!   

Excellent, now you can come and visit all the Rochester offspring! 

I hope it's not your Sabrina.  I found this tidbit when trying to search on banding protocols as I know they do reuse letter/numbers.  From the Ohio Pefa site:  http://ohiodnr.com/wildlife/dow/falcons/faq.aspx

"When a symbol appears sideways on a band, it is represented in writing by an asterisk (*). Therefore, on the band in the photo the Y is sideways and so is written as *Y/5.

This is done to increase the number of possible combinations of letters and numbers on these special color bands.

Thus, more falcons can be banded with a particular combination of color fields (like "black over green") before new colored bands are needed."

Wonderful news MAK!  Both that you feel so much better and that you are going home!   

Thank you for the updates on MAK!  Stay strong girl 

I'm so very sorry you have lost your sweet girl.  It was such a pleasure to watch her on cam and to read all your reports on her and Jemison.  That she made it this far is thanks to your devotion and care for your falcon family.  You all gave her the best possible chance at survival, and thanks to you she had some time to fly the skies and explore a little bit of the world.

Fly Free Callidora   

Sending positive thoughts and warm wishes to Callidora.  Great news that she made it to 2 years, she's a strong one, hopefully she can beat this!

Happy New Year Carly!  Thanks so much for your updates.  I'd like to see your pictures.  Please feel free to post the link to your photo blog here.   

Heh..they are Mathew's updates from his blog.  Sorry shouldn't have assumed everyone knew that!  Here is the link to his blog site! 

http://www.asic.ca/peregrinefalcons/

Thank you for posting the video on Lady.  She surely is a most special and amazing osprey.   

Looks a bit low for a transmitter but I'm no expert.  I copied it to desktop and blew it up as big as I could...very blurry but looks more like something stuck to it's bottom tail feathers.  Unless he was fitted with a transmitter and it's slipping off? 

Meanwhile..back at Jack's 'other' nest site 

Jan 2, 2012 - Happy 2012!!

Even in the winter months there's activity on site so I figured I'd give a quick update for those wondering.

If I didn't know better I could swear on the weekend I saw a bit of what could seem like early courtship, likely brought on by some of the warmer weather we were experiencing. Thankfully the cold returning will subdue the hormones and keep the falcons quiet for another few months.

That said, Jack is still on site regularly, I often see him flying over from his other home around 715AM, and I also see both falcons hanging around on the ledges near the flagpole, so there are definitely two around at least some of the time.

Over the holidays I went to Nanticoke and thought I might have some luck finding our offspring Marla who now resides around the powerplant. I didn't have any luck catching her but I did snap some other birds of prey with the camera, if you're interested check my photo blog here.

Other than that it's probably going to be quiet for at least a couple of months and then I'd expect the annual mayhem to ensue once again. Updates to follow whenever things pick up.

All the best for everyone in 2012!!

Oh no 

Thanks for the update Kitty!  Very happy to hear Island Girl is still thriving and hope she continues to do so! 

I admit I thought of her the other day when I read about the forest fires down in Chile.