Another new Aussie Falcon Cam,...and there is hatch!!  Nest in on a Robyn's condo balcony in a planter or garden type of structure, 2nd year now and she's put up a cam..great close ups!!

Oh and she's named them Emily and Frederick.  They had 3 eggs. First egg laid August 14 (US time), 3rd egg was 8/18...so, I guess that means egg #2 was 8/16!!!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/emily-falcon-cam#id9366589

  They should have just put him in a zoo or something. I didn't like this from the start. First they let him sit on that beach and eat all that sand and crap. Then rehab him, as far as I'm concerned a waste of time because they just dropped him in the sea all alone to fend for himself against all odds! Sheesh, poor planning is putting it mildly!!!     

I agree, poor little guy.

Talons crossed that it's another tiercel for Unity and no scuffling happens.  Perhaps Unity will just explain to Archer nicely that she's moving on and that he should go back to her auntie   

Yeah I know but one can always hope 

Thank you for the links of his release, he sure didn't look like he wanted to go.  I hope he's not been imprinted.  Good luck little buddy, hope you find your way home safely.

"The Scottish Gamekeepers Association has raised concerns about whether sea eagles could differentiate between children and their natural prey."

This is what happens when people are incapable of critical thinking - honestly I'd be more worred about these people reproducing and introducing more stupidity into the population.

She's molting, out with the old and in with the new and improved feathers    All pefas go through an annual molt so nothing to worry about.

Thanks for the video nff, how wonderful to see Quest live    And how great is it that the family is still hanging out there, I'm so happy they put that nestbox in for them and gave them a home...

 

Sorry was cooking dinner and got distracted.  I know the Alberta facility breeds falcons for falconers and for hack and release programs - some provinces out West still do hack and release as their population is still endangered in some areas. 

Likely they do have 'extra' ones so they could go to education programs if there was no one to claim them.  I am not sure what they would do if they couldn't find homes for them all...or how that works.  I don't expect they'd just breed birds and hope that someone wanted them because at some point they would either become imprinted or you'd have to release them and hope they could survive on their own.  Perhaps they are bred to order and then maybe something happens and a bird becomes available that has no designated home. 

Falconer's birds are imprinted but it's a different relationship entirely.  They are trained to hunt for sport and they are conditioned using 'food' as a rewards.  They are kept 'hungry' so that they'll return to their owner when they're allowed to fly - its a precise science to keep them at an acceptable weight so they hunt well, develop strong muscles and return home.  

With educational birds, they are trained to be used to people and they are treated more like family, there is no keeping the bird 'hungry' to get him to do things.

I've noticed at our site that during the annual molt which is going on right now - Angel is pretty much velcroed to the nest box and ledge.  Molting tends to make them sedentary and they seem to spend alot of time by nest box when the primaries are coming in.

OMG, couldn't they keep her as an educational bird? Give her to CPF!! Put her down for what? Don't let Mark Nash hear about this! I'm shocked!  

Actually I think Mark and Marion might agree with them, depending on the bird in question.  I used to feel the same way until they explained to me how once wild birds do in captivity.  Marion told me that you can see in their eyes that somehow the life has gone out of them.  That's why they prefer to use imprinted birds for the education program, they raise them from babies and the birds don't know anything else so they thrive.   A biologist out west that I correspond with also said the same thing, she's been working with wild birds for over 20 years and said most of them don't make good educational birds because they miss being free.    

If they didn't care about S2, they wouldn't be doing all they could to save her but quality of life is just as important for a falcon as it is for a human in my humble opinion.

I repeat - TWO females??

From what DEF has said over on BCAW, two females have been witnessed there with Pa.  A local resident also spotted them fighting twice so far, talons locked in the air.  Hopefully no one dies over the nest.  It's quite a popular site, I know S2 has had to fend off quite a few females there during her reign.

One of the 2 new females!

Somewhere in Toronto, Jack the Tiercel is smiling 

Hi Frank..glad to hear you've got things sorted and have a place to rest your head for the winter.  Tracy is awesome, glad to hear Cheyenne is on the road to recovery!