Mira by Ann B   

Isn't she lovely?

Orville's got multiple purposes - friend, teddy bear, pillow...

brought to attention by patsy6 on ustream:

This is such a cute picture! I think that because  our little one is an "only", he/she is clinging to Orville like others that have sibs all pile together and make the big "fluffball" picutres that we all love!  :-)  So Orville has a noble purpose for this little 'un.   And so do the precious eggs that have remained intact but unhatched!

Last night's fireworks.

July 4, 2012 Fireworks

The opening barrage startled Beauty, but she came back a few minutes later.

This is really cool. Thank you, Shaky, for inserting the image of B leaving and then coming back into the fireworks video.  Our intrepid Beauty was only gone for about two minutes!  She was right back at her nest!   She is fierce!

Moon shot, thanks Shaky!

 
nice shot.  even better than the fireworks.  This is natural!   \

There is also that whole DC wants to feed and Beauty mostly wont let him (probably cause he is so messy. Draw to many flies to baby.) So the boy might be pouting? just a possibility

If he only knew! In 2010 Beauty only allowed Archer to feed Jemison & Callidora 3 times total ever!  She's being positively lenient this year.

I remember that. Maybe she's more intimidated by DC after all the swooping at her in the beginning and they never had much of a bonding. I think he's more bonded with P.  He also appears to be quite assertive for a tiercel.  Will be interesting to see if he and P migrate in the fall.

I agree.  I have not seen much of a bond between B and DC.   And the NB is messier than it has been before.  M and K didn't keep as messy a NB, and A and B did not either.  I have seen messier NBs but not here.  It was unusual  to see B prep the prey, but I do think she has been providing more food for the eyas. Always fascinating! YAY Beauty!

Bill from chat caught this! A yellow orb!  Angel egg!!

That is eerie! 
 :wub:thank you angel egg! You are here with this new babe.

Thanks, Donna. An interesting article.  And I realized did watch the Kodak cam back in the late 90s and early 00's.   Kind of lost track a little in the mid 00's, but I remember M and K well.  And all of their little ones. 

!!! Waterloo Female Identified; It’s Statler!!
June 27, 2012 - Kitchener - Sun Life Centre

Tracy Simpson Reports:

On Wednesday June 27th, I paid a visit to the Waterloo Sun Life Financial Centre to introduce myself to the site, the staff and the peregrines.  I met up with Tony Bergauer the Project Manager, Real Estate Services from Bentall Kennedy ( Canada ) LP, the company that manages the building and we stood on Union Blvd. enjoying the sight of the resident female roosting on a concrete parapet.  We discussed options for viewing the adults and the 19th floor of the building seemed the ideal location as it was currently unoccupied and the adults spend a great deal of time roosting on the other side of the windows.  We checked in at security and made our way upstairs.  The moment we entered the office suite area of the floor, I spotted the female sitting on a balcony railing and managed to capture a few quick pictures of her leg bands.  The male was much more elusive and was sitting on the top of a parapet that could not be properly viewed through the windows.  Within half an hour, he had taken flight and was on a hunt over a series of apartment buildings to the east.  The female had also moved off and was now sitting on the retaining wall right above the nest area.  I spent almost 4 hours at the site maintaining my post on the 19th floor but was unable to see the male once he’d returned as once again he sat in a position that was not fully in view.

When I arrived home. I immediately put the pictures up on my larger screen to look at the females band number and was amazed to find a band number that I had recognized!!  The female has a black over green recovery band on her left leg bearing the ID of 65 over AW and a silver USFW band on her right leg.  This female is Statler from the Statler building nest site in 2010; a bird I rescued from Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto last year.  The bird was trapped in a cooling tower on the roof of the centre just as the long weekend was beginning and she was very lucky to have been discovered and released.  To know that she is now a mother of a single, healthy and recently banded little male is a testament to the work that we do at the CPF.  I am so pleased to see that this bird not only survived her ordeal in the cooling tower but is now a parent and I am so happy to have been a part of such a positive story.  Following this post is the full story of the rescue and release of this incredible female last year and it highlights the fantastic community support that the CPF has regularly celebrated over the 17 years we have been working in southern Ontario communities.  A very good news story indeed!  I will continue with my efforts to identify the resident male and can only confirm at this time that he has a purple USFW band on his right leg and a black over green recovery band on his left leg.  

More to come!!

Posted on July 2, 2012 4:28 pm
Observation for Kitchener - Sun Life Centre
 

 
 
A wonderful story about Statler! An testament to all the work you do at CPF!   I love all the cross-border relationships of the falcons.
 
To all of you at CPF!

I saw this article in Sunday's D & C and  I don't think I was aware of Zeus.  Is there anywhere on rfalconcam where the very early history is recorded?   I think it is wonderful that Zeus is alive and well after 18 years.  He is the ur-falcon of Rochester!

Look at me momma!  I have wings just like yours!

 
Many sweet pictures being captured by  you!  Thank you.

   

I was browsing for something in Imprints & spotted this from 2010...



Today...babies do love that spot!


You are too good, Ei!   If that is from 2010 that is Beauty and either Jemison or Callidora!    It's probably a cool corner for them...out of the sun... Wish we knew where Jemison was. Fly high to sweet Callidora.

Wow! I can see forever!

These high resolution pictures are unbelievable!   I have watched a long time on these cams, but it is like being up there in the nestbox.  Love to watch this eyas grow!

Good morning Dot!

Back at you, Peeps!

or..."talk to the talon!"

[Beauty (2007) in Rochester, New York]

From Kate's Blog



To put things into perspective… yesterday’s news about Blue’s death was sad but not unusual.

Juvenile peregrine falcon mortality is high.  Nearly two thirds don’t live to be one year old.  Their often quoted mortality rate is 62.5%.

Scientific research bears this out.  Marcel Gabhauer published his doctoral thesis on peregrine falcons in 2008 having studied urban and rural, wild-born and hacked birds in Ontario since 1995.  His findings showed that nest survival from hatching to fledging is high (95.8%) but first year survival is dramatically lower.  Of the chicks he was able to track for a year, only 36.5% of the wild-born birds and 31.6% of the hacked birds survived to their first birthday.  Only one out of three makes it.

My experience with the Cathedral of Learning peregrines is similar though I’m unable to track them for a year.  Each summer since 2008 at least one juvenile Pitt peregrine has died in Pittsburgh.  Interestingly, I didn’t begin to hear of the Pitt peregrines’ deaths until 2008 when my blog made me known as The Peregrine Lady.

Monitoring juvenile peregrines is a roller coaster experience. Dorothy and E2 know this much better than I do.  Yesterday evening I found them where I expected them to be – on the Cathedral of Learning on the side facing the scene of Blue’s accident.  E2 was gazing in that direction. Dorothy was in her mourning nook, a place she only uses just after one of her youngsters has died.

This dip in our roller coaster won’t last long.  The demands of the remaining juveniles will perk up Dorothy and E2.  The Pitt peregrines’ success stories will keep us going with Dorothy’s “kidsâ€� across the eastern U.S:

    Louie (2002) in Downtown Pittsburgh
    Stammy (2003) in Youngstown, Ohio
    Hathor (2003) in Mt. Clemens, Michigan
    Belle (2003) at the Univ. of Toledo bell tower
    Maddy (2004) at the I-480 bridge near Cleveland
    Beauty (2007) in Rochester, New York
    Rufus(2007) in Warren, Ohio
    Unnamed male (2008) at the Tarentum Bridge in 2010. (Not confirmed in 2012.)
    Unnamed female (2009) in Wrightsville, Ohio.
    And Henry — who hit a window on Henry Street last year — is thriving in Ohio!

 

After reading this, I  to our Beauty!  She has been through so much in her short life.   She is a strong PeFa and I hope that she and  Doc.ca have many more young here, and continue the legacy that Mariah and Kave began. 

 

 A funny but sweet picture.  This little guy sure gets around!  Maybe he/she should be named "scooter". 

He is saying, "So this is where I come from!"