Now I understand  and I hope the new fans in Canada are adoring our Quest.  But I do hope that for those of us who have followed her since her hatching in 2008 and all her adventures for the past three years that we get to see the  "happily ever after"  of her hatchlings in Don Mills.   

Have no fear-if there are pictures to be had, you can be SURE we'll find them and post them!

Of that, I have no doubt...especially with this group of watchers!    I know our Quest and her young will be cared for and documented for their life times. 

Beautiful presentation of Quest, Shaky!   What piece of music is that?   It's wonderful. 

Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy      One of my all time favorites, to hear and to play!

It's one of the pieces that comes with iPhoto for making slideshows.

Thanks to both for the answer!   I love the music and the photos!  Won't it be great if you can add on to it and show Quest's little ones?

Yes, that could be done although the original intent was to put together a sort of photo biography of Quest for her new fans in Canada.

It would be nice to collect all the pictures of Quest before she arrived in Toronto and save them in one location so her fans can easily find them. If you have any pictures, please post them here. Later we can put them in an album or a nice slide show complete with soundtrack that we can present to the folks in Canada. 

Now I understand  and I hope the new fans in Canada are adoring our Quest.  But I do hope that for those of us who have followed her since her hatching in 2008 and all her adventures for the past three years that we get to see the  "happily ever after"  of her hatchlings in Don Mills.   

Beautiful presentation of Quest, Shaky!   What piece of music is that?   It's wonderful. 

Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy      One of my all time favorites, to hear and to play!

It's one of the pieces that comes with iPhoto for making slideshows.

Thanks to both for the answer!   I love the music and the photos!  Won't it be great if you can add on to it and show Quest's little ones?

Duh!!  Birdmusic!  I just got it! Your name!  Birds and music!  Your two passions!    You play piano?   And adore birds?

No pip yet...

I know!

At least not on that side...

Very eerie yet beautiful pics if you look at camera 4 shots now.  Around 8:40.  Thank goodness the heavy rain has stopped, but still ugly out.  Yet this picture is pretty.

Beautiful presentation of Quest, Shaky!   What piece of music is that?   It's wonderful. 

Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy      One of my all time favorites, to hear and to play!

It's one of the pieces that comes with iPhoto for making slideshows.

Thanks to both for the answer!   I love the music and the photos!  Won't it be great if you can add on to it and show Quest's little ones?

Beautiful presentation of Quest, Shaky!   What piece of music is that?   It's wonderful. 

It's hard to believe that Beauty has had only a 2 hour break in 24. She sure has me beat...LOL

I can't bear to look at these pictures anymore
Beauty deserves MOTHER OF THE YEAR  award.  It's not even a warm spring rain.  It's 40 ^%$#*( degrees out!  Truly a rough year...winter, mating season, and now incubating for this poor Beauty.   
That NYC nest is looking better  every minute!   

Sleeping Beauty.  The weather people say it will stop raining sometime overnite.  More rain expected each day through Friday, but not as frequent and as heavy as it has been this weekend.  So far, next weekend is looking good.  Poor Lilac Festival.

They closed down the Lilac Festival today. I don't remember them doing them  before, and we've had snow and cold and rain before this.     
What was the hatch date for the eggs last year? 

At 1:45, Archer tried talking her out of the nestbox, but no dice! He sat for a moment, all soggy and wet, and then he flew off for something drier.

These poor birds.  Looking at these pictures of Beauty and Archer, and then Rhea Mae and Tiago...the weather is awful.  Cold, wet, windy, non-stop rain, and it's supposed to continue all week.   Those shingles from NYC nest are sounding pretty good right now.   
I know their body temps operate differently than a human's, but don't they have to expend an awful lot of energy to keep those eggs warm? 
Is the PPH at KP  as exposed to the wind and rain as TSS nest is? 

That's quite the nest box.

Wow nice digs for your falcons! Did they get a grant or take out a home improvement loan?!  lol 

 
Yes, but those digs probably cost 100K to build down there!  It could be built for a fraction of that cost up here!  Love those shingles.   And a duck pond while we are at it would be nice for the residents!

Hi gang,

Remember our falcon watches in Irondequoit this winter while watching the Ibay pefa? Remember the transmitter gull we saw? I couldn't find where Carol P posted the follow-up.  Sorry if this is a repeat, but in case you didn't hear...Carol found out that the transmitter gull made his way home to Montreal at midnight on April 11th.

Actually, I don't think Carol ever told us the gull was from Montreal or posted a follow-up.  The only thing she told us was it "spoke French" or something like that.  Good to know it made its way home!

This is an email Carol recieved in response to her info on the gulls leg bandthat she forwarded to me on January 30,2011.

Dan Clark forwarded me your message about a radio-transmitter Ring-billed Gull observed yesterday near Rochester. The bird was banded on June 15 last summer on Ile Deslauriers, a breeding colony located 20 km east of Montreal on the St-Lawrence river. We fixed an ARGOS-GPS device to the bird to track its post-breeding dispersal. The bird dispersed in mid-August to the Rochester area (sleeping on flat roofs in an industrial area or on the river that flows through Rochester) and has been there since. The device collected 2 GPS locations/day (noon and midnight) and are transmitted once a week via the ARGOS satellite system. The batteries are recharged with solar panels and we have got no signal from the last 2 weeks. The reason seems to be a failure with the system and not the death of the bird. Cold weather and clouds may have prevent batteries to be recharged enough to transmit the locations. Your sighting is thus very important to us. It is still a bit worrisome that the bird did not fly on the river to join other gulls.... Nevertheless the bird seems in good condition and the device well attached exposing the solar plates as shown by your pictures. We have marked 9 other birds and have lost only one so far. We hope to track them form more than a year to see if they show some fidelity to their post-dispersal site. For XHP, the post-breeding site seems to be also its wintering site unlike the others that moved further south up to Georgia and South Carolina.
 
We have banded few thousands birds with blue and yellow plastic bands with individual codes. If you spot any of our birds, let us know, this would be appreciate.
 
 
Jean-François
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM),

Amazing how these gulls are tracked.  I guess I always assumed that gulls stayed put; didn't migrate.  

Every year for the past 15 years a feathery couple has given birth to four baby birds outside the Nassau University Medical Center.

But this year’s hatching surprised everybody because a fifth baby bird was born on the 17th floor ledge, brining the total number of birds born outside the hospital to 55.

The proud parents, Meadow and Brook, named after the Meadowbrook parkway, aren’t just any regular birds. They are peregrine falcons.

They first arrived in 1997 and were given a 3 x 4 box to help hatch their eggs. And ever since the hospital provided them with that box, they haven’t stopped adding to the family.

State environmental officials visit the ledge around the same time every year to place a band on each of the four birds to track their whereabouts because they are on the endangered species list. So when officials climbed up to the box this Friday, they were surprised to find one extra baby falcon.

The additional tiny falcon put a hitch in the hospital’s plan to name the four birds after the four members of the music group, Black Eyed Peas. But the hospital quickly solved that problem by giving the fifth newborn the title of group manager.

Unlike their parents, the Nassau University Medical Center will only be a temporary residence for will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, apl.de.ap, and their manager. The young group of falcons will migrate elsewhere once they learn how to fly.

Weird names

WOW!  I'm a native Long Islander!  Nassau and Meadowbrook Parkway caught my attention right away.  then I saw ther press release was from www.longislandpress.com/   YAY!   
I've seen wonderful water fowl, and lots of osprey nests, but this is cool to read about the pefas on LI for all these  years! 
 
   

The Fab Four morning feed
- Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:

I arrived in time for the first time to see a feed. I quickly grabbed my camera and crossed my fingers that equipment was not obstructing my camera view. WONDERFUL! I also captured some live video. So sweet, but I don’t know what is causing them to look toward the wall. Perhaps the shadow of Tiago flying past the nest ledge.

Late this afternoon I checked the web cam and a split second I caught the second image. The little one looking directly at the camera.

Hmmm, I wonder if they know we are watching

Great Pic Linda, thanks!

Wonderful pictures of the "fab four".  Thank you, Linda! 

Are 2 beaks are better then one....LOL
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 :happy:Another one of those weird camera tricks!  Last night it was "double vision".

We should have known he was this way when he started with our sweet Mariah and then took up with Beauty.  Apparently this bird does not know that falcons are typically (though not always-- Windwhistler) loyal to one.  Does he not know who is grandparents are?  Sheesh

I'm with you Jeanne!  Kind of ruins the whole image of a Peregrine pair, devoted to each other,  :wub:re raising their family together.  Nothing like what we had with M&K. Just my opinion....

 
I was just thinking the same thing, Kris, and then I saw  your post.  It seemed so simple to watch our falcons atop the Kodak tower.  Sweet Mariah and devoted Kaver raising their little ones.    This has become a Peyton Place...I'm showing my age.    The drama!