T for Toucan

O for Osprey

B Buzzard

...or 2...

I noticed an arc that appears in the upper right and upper left corners of the Cam 4 image at night.  It disappears in daylight.  Here's a movie from pre-dusk today that shows the effect:
(movie)

My first thought was that this was an optical effect from the IR illuminators, either the ones in Camera 4 itself, or possibly one of the nestbox cameras reflecting IR light off the lens of Cam 4.  The problem with that theory is that the arc appears to move, not only in and out of the frame, but also toward and away from the camera.  It never appears to be sharply in focus, so I thought may be it was a spider web of some kind, but nothing of the sort appears in the daylight shots.

So, would anybody care to weigh in with their theory as to what we might be seeing here?

Well, the effect on the upper left doesn't seem to move like the one on the right and it appears to then be a dark area upper left in the daylight.  I'm wondering if that is the cam visualizing the hood over the lens, catching the IR light at night.  Perhaps the one on the right is a reflection of the Times Square lights on the right side lens hood.

Of all the known offspring, Seneca reminds me the most of Mariah...

Poutine pizza will be the official dish at next year's falcon watchers day.

 

Found this on a blog called Fotocuisine

"I wanted to do poutine pizza.

Poutine is one of those dishes that was once virtually unknown in the States outside of local hot spots, but has since started to take off nationally. In Canada, of course, there are almost as many arguments about the “correct� way to make poutine as there are arguments about cheesesteak sandwiches. Much like the pizza challenge, the basics of poutine come down to three things: French fries, preferably not too thin. Cheese, almost exclusively unaged curd. Gravy, hearty and thick and very hot."



I'm from Brooklyn.  It may be a lovely flatbread with delicious toppings  , but if it doesn't have mozzarella & sauce, it's NOT a pizza. 

Will this be the only Calendar this year? 

Yes. We had two calendars last year because one was dedicated to M&K Legacy and the other was of any of the Rochester Peregrines.  This year's sole calendar is dedicated to the 'new era' w/ Archer and Beauty!

Lou

Thanks!  

Will this be the only Calendar this year? 

*sniff* The last time I saw Stormin, he was just little and covered in white fluff.  *sniff* and now look at him, all growed up.  *sniff*   

He reminds me a lot of Alkyonis... 

   

camera 1 and 4 are same pic for me  (camera 1 with the 10am time) Will we have outside one facing south again?   Good work!!!

Cam 1 will be back-either repaired or replaced.  I'm not sure of the timeline.

 

Hey Orville! Looking good!

The Legend of Pale Male will be opening in NYC November 24 and San Francisco December 10

Prothonotary Warbler???
greetings Aafke

I can't even pronounce that... much less ID it! Great little bird, tho... (What's a "prothonotary" anyway??)

From All About Birds http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Prothonotary_Warbler/lifehistory

Cool Facts

    * The Prothonotary Warbler is one of only two warbler species that nest in cavities. (Lucy's Warbler is the other.)
    * Go here to take a look at what goes on inside a Prothonotary Warbler nest, through the help of a Nest Box Cam provided by The Birdhouse Network at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
    * The name "Prothonotary" refers to clerks in the Roman Catholic church, whose robes were bright yellow.

And from Wikipedia...

The word prothonotary is recorded in English since 1447, as "principal clerk of a court," from L.L. prothonotarius (c.400), from Greek protonotarios "first scribe," originally the chief of the college of recorders of the court of the Byzantine Empire, from Greek πρῶτος protos "first" + Latin notarius ("notary"); the -h- appeared in Medieval Latin. The title was awarded to certain high-ranking notaries.