Harvest moon over Rachacha

http://youtu.be/IsAOMZSEyEU

Really beautiful!

Sweet! Hard to guess who it is...



I really can't see if there are bands...

Enlarging the pic, looks banded to me.  ? Green band so possibly Beauty?

That would be the most logical guess...and the flatness of the head made me think that too...

I can't open the album here at work, but this is the ID post from CPF...

Bruce was able to confirm by the band number, recorded as being Black 50 over X that the new male has been identified as being a bird named Skye, who was produced at the Etobicoke Bloor and Islington nest in 2011 and is on site courting her.

Sweet! Hard to guess who it is...



I really can't see if there are bands...

September 17

The giant panda cub born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo Aug. 23 received her first veterinary exam late yesterday afternoon and was given a clean bill of health. Mei Xiang, who has spent much of the past three and a half weeks cradling her cub, put her down and left her den at 4:11 p.m. The panda team, which has been preparing for an opportunity to perform a full veterinary exam, seized the opportunity and retrieved the cub from the den while Mei Xiang ate bamboo and drank some water in the adjacent enclosure. The exam was completed by 4:31 p.m.

"It’s amazing to see how much she has grown in less than one month," said Brandie Smith, senior curator of mammals and giant pandas. "Mei Xiang continues to be a great mom, as she was with Tai Shan, and it shows."

Since her preliminary health check Aug. 25 the cub has more than doubled her weight. She now weighs slightly less than two pounds and has the signature black markings of a giant panda. Veterinarians also listened to her heart and lungs. Her heart rate was 130 beats per minute, and her respiratory rate was 42. From nose to tail she is 10.6 inches long and 9.8 inches wide around her belly. Her eyes have not opened yet.

After the exam was completed Mei Xiang returned to her den and immediately picked up her cub and began grooming her.

 

Yippee! Cam 1 is back in action!

Thanks Shaky!

Hmmm---cam 1 archive stopped recording at 12:37. The others are fine. Streaming is working on channel 2...

Anyway...



Fog or smoke?

Lit 4 from DK....

Thanks!

I haven't been able to get a candle to light at the RFC gratefulness site for 2 days now...

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=RFC

There are only 4 candles lit right now. There have been candles lit there for all our falcons ever since Beauty was injured last year.

Please try & if you're successful please light a few extra for those of us who can't get it working...

Thanks

Had to tell my computer the site wasn't malware to get through...

The long southern winter, and malware…
Published 11 September, 2013 | By ScottBanks

As most of our viewers have noticed we’ve had a really fun run of utterly pointless malware in the back end of the website, which has ultimately affected the website viewing experience for just about everyone. Nothing malicious – just one of those avoidable nuisances. We’re now working with a professional security company to avoid the problems of the past and appear to have finally cleared ourselves of the rubbish that some random, under-utilised brains have encumbered us with.

We’ve requested Google to clear us once more of their extremely annoying and somewhat useless website blocking tactics, and hope now that they’ll leave us alone to get on with what we’ve been doing best – bringing to you our observations of Beau and Swift, and their ongoing lives up the Concrete Hilton, on Orange campus.

You’ll also notice we’ve updated the look of the website to something more modern. In doing this we’ve noticed that the capability to leave comments has been turned off so as soon as we’re able to we’ll repair this feature as well (Ed.- you can leave comments by going in to the post itself!), but in the mean time we hope that routines will return to normal very soon…. especially with the exciting news of this, our 6th observed breeding season’s eggs, underway as we speak (write).

Also problematic has been the issue that both Cilla and myself have been overseas for extended periods recently, and consequently access to the website for maintenance, the cameras, the surveillance/recording systems etc have been interrupted. We should both be back on deck now, and the most exciting news is that the recently purchased Axis 3384 camera which will replace the very old ledge camera view is up and running, and initial tests have provided us with stunning quality results, both during the day and at night. Stay tuned – the new ledge camera isn’t far away now!

Apologies once more to our devoted viewers – I think we’re on top of all the troubles this time!….. and now it’s over to our peregrine falcons once more…..

Scott

http://youtu.be/d4jcoA7YQM0

 

I see 2