She's not letting those babies out tonight...all I've seen is her head moving and the empty shells...

Shift change...I'm always intrigued by the blurry falcon captures...

Glad to hear they're still there!

YIPPEE!!! Rhea Mae & Tiago's cam is back!

Wait - we have something like 17 peregrine nests in the area, and I suddenly remembered that a few weeks ago when I was at the Field Museum, Mary Hennen showed slides of some of the others - one downtown nest was actually IN a flowerpot, as opposed to ours, which is in a sunken column cap - the birds ledge down into a planter area.

What ever happened to the pair that was nesting on a fire escape? 

Are there still peregrines in Chicago nesting in the library flower pot?

Jeanne

Yup...EPL cam...four eggs, last one laid 03/30 so hatching should start soon!

           

And right on time too!

Actually, Beauty only stepped out for a quick bite to eat...most of which is still stuck to her beak!   

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I have been in contact with two of the Admins on the CMNH Forum.  I found out that if you get a blank page or Error 403... forbidden, it might be a lockout.

Once they unblock your IP, you should be able to login.  If you have the correct username and don't have your password, you can click on "forget password" and reset it to enter the website.  (As MAK noted in her post, you may have to delete your cookie).

~Joyce

YIPPEE!!  Thank you, Joyce, for taking the time to hunt someone down at CMNH! Don't know why they never responded to my original report, but that's water under the bridge...

@ 7:45 still no Archer...

What?  I got here as fast as I could!  See...didn't even have a chance to wipe breakfast off my beak!  Sheesh!

Missed a set...I added a PS to my post over there-again...maybe someone will have some idea why you all can't read the board...
She flew to a tree to eat, and here she is finishing off a foot, followed by a beak cleaning rub...

   

   

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Bumping it up...

Cheyenne mostly circled and cruised around, but dove at the cat as it was departing (couldn't capture it, though), and then darted back in to the nest...

 

Here's a sequence where the pair saw a cat walking on the bank under the road fairly close to the nest site and both started "intimidating" the cat into leaving the area. They showed their remarkable flight abilities, especially Seneca with some upside-down flying as she kept her head and eyes fixated on the cat. Neither of them came very close to the cat, as he couldn't have gotten to the nest ledge, and he escaped untouched. Here's Seneca displaying a graceful flip manuever (notice her big crop)...

   

 

And here's Seneca flying out with it...