Sorry-hit enter too soon-

I don't think Beauty's done laying because she isn't incubating the one egg yet.  They don't start full time incubating until the next to last (penultimate) egg is laid. 

There's also the tale of Tasha, Louie & Dori in Ohio (can't recall the city) last year.  Tasha laid a full clutch then was displaced by Dori.  A couple of eggs were destroyed in the fight, but 2 or 3 remained.  Then Dori laid a clutch and incubated the whole bunch and they all hatched.  There was a VERY long interval from 1st to last there.

Tasha, Louie & Dori...Gulf Tower Pittsburgh, PA...sorry

I thought of Dori and Louie too..everyone said they wouldn't hatch but they did and pretty sure there was at least a 2 week interval between the time the eggs were laid and full time incubation started!  I remember watching Louie lay on those 2 eggs every night and then pushing them over to Dori's eggs..insisting they be incubated by her.  I don't think anyone who watched wasn't in tears when they all hatched.

I didn't follow them closely, but I had tears then too...OK, now too... 

 

Sorry-hit enter too soon-

I don't think Beauty's done laying because she isn't incubating the one egg yet.  They don't start full time incubating until the next to last (penultimate) egg is laid. 

There's also the tale of Tasha, Louie & Dori in Ohio (can't recall the city) last year.  Tasha laid a full clutch then was displaced by Dori.  A couple of eggs were destroyed in the fight, but 2 or 3 remained.  Then Dori laid a clutch and incubated the whole bunch and they all hatched.  There was a VERY long interval from 1st to last there.

Hmm, that's all I have to say

Could it be possible that Beauty may only lay one egg this year?    What is the longest Mariah went between eggs?  Wasn't it 4 or 5 days one year?

Mariah went 106 hours twice.  There have been other instances of other long intervals-I believe it was Scout in Columbus OH in 2008 went 8 days between 1st & 2nd egg.  The rest were laid at "normal" intervals and all hatched just fine.

Hmmm...maybe I should have started with a when will she lay #2 poll 

Anyway-I don't think I can extend the closing date on this one, so...don't forget to vote!

[THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS]

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

Bumping this most recent version of the glossary up to the top.  Please...newcomers...long time members...we are looking for suggestions to improve this and we can't do it without everyone's help! 
Any other suggestions?
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A    Archer Resident tiercel Rochester, NY since 2009 (hatched 2006 in Port Colborn, Ontario).  Mariah and Kaver's grandson. His father is Freedom (hatched 2002). He was a mate to Mariah for a very brief time in 2009 before pairing with Beauty

anthropomorphizing   attributing human characteristics, motives, and emotions to animals; a favorite watcher activity

B  Beauty Resident falcon Rochester, NY since 2009  (hatched 2007, Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA)  First seen with Zephyr (M/K's offspring) in the winter of 2009. She then fought Mariah for territorial dominance in downtown Rochester in 2009.

BBRR  Braddock Bay Raptor Research  Hawk watch and banding station on the shore of Lake Ontario

BL Bausch & Lomb  Building in downtown Rochester, NY; occasional perch

Cabot-Sirocco   Hatched in 1997 to Victoria & Pounce-Kingsley in Toronto, ON. First mate of Mariah (1998-2002)

CB  Charbay Peregrine falcon seen at Charlotte, NY & Irondequoit Bay

cere Fleshy part of the upper beak containing the nostrils

CMNH   Cleveland Museum of Natural History   Forum where we followed Seneca (Rochester, NY 2008) and her nest with Cheyenne in 2010

CPF     Canadian Peregrine Foundation     Our neighbors to the north who keep watch on many Rochester offspring residing there

ee-chup    a sound of affection.  Heard often with the adults

eyas     newly hatched peregrine falcon

falcon     female peregrine

FC     falcon central     Stairs on Broad St. across from the Blue Cross Arena that go down to Aqueduct St.  Next to the Thomson Reuters building and the empty Philippone building

FCT     Frontier Communications Towers     Favorite perch. This is across from City Hall. A/B seemed to bring their fledglings there.  Calidora (hatched 2010) used to frequent the tower, screaming for food from her parents.  

FF     Falcon Flakes     The dedicated watchers who keep an eye on the peregrines no matter the weather

fledgling    A young peregrine after it makes it's first flight

GVAS     Genesee Valley Audubon Society     Sponsor of Rfalconcam

HSBC     building across from Xerox     A building in downtown Rochester.  Often, A/B areseen there at night.  It is across the street from Xerox. A/B will consistently perch on certain columns of the Xerox building at night.

IB     Irondequoit Bay     Large bay on the shore of Lake Ontario

Jail Tower    Communication tower on the Monroe County Jail building.  A favorite perch.

kakk    if done in a hurried manner, can be an alarm call but regular kakking can also be done for attention

Kaver     Wild hatched. Second mate of Mariah (2002-2008) Known affectionately as QTP2T. An extraordinarily faithful mate.  In 2006 when Mariah was injured he successfully hunted for her and the newly hatched eyases.

KO     Kodak Office   Kodak Tower, the highest building in the complex, was the original nestbox site and birthplace of close to 50 peregrine eyases

KP     Kodak Park     Properly, Eastman Business Park. Ironically, where Mariah had been seen for awhile after she relinquished territory.  It is a few miles down the same road as Kodak Tower.  Lady Pefa is on one of the buildings of that complex

LP     Lady Pefa     Peregrine falcon with a purple midwest USFWS band residing at Kodak Park.

M&K; M/K     Mariah & Kaver     Resident peregrine pair 2002-2008

Mariah     Peregrine Falcon matriarch-- first falcon on Kodak tower (1998).  First mate was Cabot Scirocco (1998-2002), then with Kaver (2002-2008).  She spent most of her time at Kodak tower until the nestbox was moved to Times Square in 2009.

Mercury    Statue across from Times Square Building     across the road from Times Square building.  Favorite spot of A/B.  Seems to be the statue they prefer for mating and eating purposes.

Midtown Plaza     Going, going, almost gone.  An almost nest site for Mariah and Archer, then Archer and Beauty. Watchers witnessed many a coming and going of Falcons at the Midtown Tower, which is the only section of Midtown that will remain in the future.

NB     Nestbox     Manmade box with gravel substrate used to simulate the peregrine's preferrednest site of a gravel ledge on a cliff face

OCSR    Old Changing Scenes Restaurant.  Properly the First Federal Building     place where falcons seem to go but not for mating or nesting.  Mariah  and Kaver (M&K) used to store food in the elevator shaft of that building. This is still used for those purposes by Archer and Beauty.  Fledglings in 2010 also would go there with their parents.

ORB     Orange Rail Building.  A building at Kodak Park where Lady Pefa and a tiecel have been perching.

Orville      A round white stone from the original scrape on Kodak Tower that was often mistaken for an egg.  During the long days of waiting for the eggs to hatch the stone was given the name Orville.  When the nest box was moved, Orville was taken to the new nest box where he is proudly overseeing the newest generations of Rochester Peregrines from the back left corner

PC     Psych Center     about 3-5 miles from Times Square.  We have seen Pefas there through the years (including Zephyr in 2009).  Again this winter, 2010, two have been seen on that building.  It is privately owned so viewing is restricted

PF or PeFa Peregrine Falcon

Powers Building    Another nestbox site after the box was removed from Kodak.  Birds have been seen near there but the nestbox has not been used.

Quest    Hatched Rochester, NY 2008.  Outfitted with a transmitter that is still broadcasting her position as she wanders along the north shore of Lake Ontario.

RFC     Rfalconcam The place that brings all the falcon fans, both on the ground and on the internet, together!

RFW     Rochester Falcon Watchers

RM&T     Rhea Mae & Tiago     Rhea Mae (Rochester, NY 2006) is nesting with Tiago at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, ON

scrape     Peregrine falcon nest; the depression scraped in the gravel to hold the eggs during incubation

Seneca     Hatched in 2008.  Nested in 2010 with Cheyenne at Brookpark Rd. Bridge near Cleveland, OH.

tiercel     male peregrine

TS    Times Square Building     new site of nestbox, used by Beauty and Archer

USFWS     US Fish and Wildlife Service     Issues the sequential numeric bands used in bird banding.  On peregrine falcons, the band color often indicates the region the bird was banded

wailing     used by eyases/fledglings when begging for food.  Adults will also wail when laying on eggs to indicate change from one adult to another

Wild Wings     Rehabilitation center and sanctuary for injured and unreleasable birds of prey

My mistake - forgot about the purple Fish and Wildlife bands in the Midwest.

With apologies for my confusion,

Marcia L.

Not a problem, Marcia-I'm amazed some days I remember my own name!  And you are correct-there is regionality to VID as well-Canada uses all black-I think California too. Thanks for the reminder!

(note to self-add VID to the glossary-& bird banding lab link)

First...welcome aboard!    You will see that we are a fun group of people all here because of our love for these birds.  

I know it can be difficult to jump into a conversation, but we were all new once upon a time.  Everything I know about peregrine falcons I learned right here (and on our predecessor Yahoo group).  

It can also be hard to know where to start.  Well, we have been working on a project to develop a glossary.  You can find the work to date here:

http://rfalconcam.com/forum/index.php?topic=4801.msg42355#new  

But you know the old saying...sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. Some have suggested some entries have an "insider" tone-and that may well be true, but it's hard for long-timers to see.  So we would appreciate your looking at it and asking questions about what you read there... clarifications...questions we haven't even thought of...whatever you think would make it better.

You can post your questions here...or there...pretty much anywhere except Rfalconcam Now  
If you're not comfortable starting with a public question, just click on my name on the left and you'll see an option to send a personal message below my profile and I'll be happy to answer you as best I can there.

So, again, we're happy to have you join us while we wait for Beauty to lay that next egg!



She is on the corner of the platform behind Main cam

Perched now & dozing on & off. 

 

Glad to see them-rough day at work-seeing "our" birds helps...

OK-I'm listening to NPR All things Considered & they're interviewing Bob Anderson as they watch the nest...he said it's a muskrat, with a side of rabbit.

A cutie, even if he does have a dirty beak!

Beauty's back in the nest box, cheeping every now & again.  I heard Archer wailing in the distance.

Time to go to work...

Beauty perched on the platform.