So happy!  I just got back to the computer and saw Beauty and her brand new eyass!  Rochester Rocks!   

Looks like four fluffballs in the Statler nest!


Wow!  What a big world out there!

   ...more on blog

I wasn't fast enough, but mom is acting weird and when she just got up and turned ...  did I see white ???

Gotta be careful getting screencaps now!  I was hoping the ad banner wouldn't show up but it does.

This is fabulous!     Just in time to be on pins and needles!     

[BBBB and Yankee are getting in trouble, attacking workers across the street at the VA Hospital, even knocking the hard hat off one guy!]

        BB

BB and Yankee are getting in trouble, attacking workers across the street at the VA Hospital, even knocking the hard hat off one guy!

Very cool!  Thanks!

Yes!  That's another local mystery yet to be solved!  We're going to check it out.

Thanks CLC!

Buffalo's UB babies are ONE WEEK OLD today!



The Iroquois Kestrels are hatched!





And the Brussels Cathedral pefas got banded!



More on blog!

The kids are six days old!

Joyce, thanks!     Mark Kandel is at the Buffalo DEC office, Region 9, which extends to the PA line but not as far east as Rochester.

And yes, keeping up with all that's happening here keeps Roger and I very busy as we often hit 4 or more sites a day, but he loves to drive, loves the pefas too, and we both always have our cameras.  It would be so much easier if there were cams covering most of the sites!  Most of these places we don't even have access to.  Besides watching the sites we know about, we track down verbal reports too.  Then we send documentation to Connie. 

I'm trying to keep up better with the Picasa Web Albums, so thanks for looking!  That gives me encouragement.    My time at home and at the laptop consists of watching cams, reading reports on forums, cropping/editing the day's pix, trying to keep up with my 3 blogs, Rochesters forum, and a couple others, then other sites, FB, Wildlife Gardeners, Buffalo blogs...

I find I cannot get screencaps off the streaming feed on IE, but I can from Firefox.  Try that and I'll try to find out how to get them with IE.

Now...I have a couple questions raised by just watching our cam.  Not positive but I think it was Yankee.  They sometimes bring fresh kill, undressed, into the nest and I'm sure you've seen feathers strewn everywhere.  When he pulled apart the prey to feed the eyasses, he would sometimes just eat a big chunk, feathers and all. 

How normal is this and are they apt to expel the pellets directly under the nest or farther away?

The other question regards how he moved the chicks, by grabbing the back of they eyas's neck in his mouth, lifting the eyass and moving it to the other side of the pile.   Like a cat would move a kitten.   I never saw this before!

Is this normal or unusual?

Good point jeanne.  Somehow even that seems unnatural, and very, very sad.  The eyasses much seem like an easy snack.  We're all learning something here.

Post 97 shows the Park Lane/Gates Circle Pefas    

When checking Statler from the Rand building, our scope, binocs and cameras result in conversations in the elevator.  Roger was explaining what we were doing to a business owner who then told us about the pefas on his roof!   We thought, peregrines on his roof?  He told us where he lived and we went to look, the building was 9 stories high, but.............  So a few emails back and forth and he sent us three pix!  That convinced us!  I sent the pix on to Connie who is now as excited as we are!  The earlier pic of a juvie pefa on a 9th fl windowsill was taken not far from the Park Lane at the Westbrook.

There is a lot of thunder and lightning with this bad storm right now in Buffalo and the UB nestbox is lighting up like crazy!     Weather expected to be bad tomorrow too.  It's a scary storm and it's hitting Rochester now.  There's more to come..hang on!

   UB falconcam now Live Streaming Video!