So have the Peregrines on the grain elevator been identified? are they banded? Every time I hear of unidentified falcons I keep hoping it will be one of "our" kids.

  Though we've seen two before, but just one yesterday, we are hoping they are a nesting pair.  We did catch bands but not numbers.   Does Rochester put colored tape on the right leg over the FWS band?

Exciting news about Beauty's 4th egg!   

After not seeing any Peregrines at the grain elevators for the last week or so, we were thrilled to find one today, happily perched on the front/east side. 





And a new young Peregrine was spotted at a 9th floor window!  How cool would that be?   



More pix and news on the blog! 

She's a real Beauty!

Yea!  Four eggs!

Re:  thinning the herd for the good of the herd
I've heard the explanations.  But if it's so good for the animal world, I wonder why this method isn't used for the human herds.

Yes, Joyce, and she only left him in charge of the eggs for a very short time, and when she came back, he did not want to leave but her stare told him he should go. 

Thanks for posting that article, Donna!  I've been watching for it since the cam went in!

Visibility at the gorge today was zero, but we did see a pefa on the north Grand Island Bridge near the nestbox, but only after postediting of the pix to cut through all the moisture in the air. 

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From this morning's changing of the guard.  Yankee acts very submissively to BB.

 I just posted an album of this morning's screencaps HERE

I'm glad you started this thread!  We visit Iroquois frequently but of course you can see more inside the nest by watching the cam.

I thought Buffalo's Rochester friends would like to see this shot taken by a DEC tech!
 

No pet rock at the Statler as far as I know!

Actually, it looks like a pet rock closest to the camera 

Yes, I do believe you are right!   

Yes, it's quite a stretch for our available optics too.  Do you watch from HERE?

No pet rock at the Statler as far as I know!  It was quite a big deal for Connie to get permission and a bldg mgr to accompany the tech.  As far as I know these chicks won't get banded but maybe that will change.

Wasn't it thrilling to see the new pair at the grain elevators?   

Whoops!  I forgot to mention pic #1 is the current Statler nest with four eggs. 

Pic #2 Is a screencap from UB with three eggs.  It would have been four had one not been smashed.

Aafke, please change the Buffalo Pefa cam to
http://www.buffalo.edu/webcam/falconcam.html
This high-def cam is provided by UB

Audubon no longer has a cam.   The Statler is in bankruptcy and boarded up though the nest has four eggs (pic on Buffalo thread in this forum)

Thanks for the great list!

I thought Buffalo's Rochester friends would like to see this shot taken by a DEC tech!
 

And can you see the pet rock peeking out ing the UB nest? 

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UB all is well now; birds are okay; BB replaced lost egg and they are both incubating  three eggs and pet rock

~UB Pefacam~

More Buffalo news at blog where you will always find link to the UB cam directly under my header!

We dodged the snow bullet, Donna, but it got c-o-l-d!

BB now has a third egg, and her pet rock