He made it! Stills didn't catch it all, but I got video!

DC must be on column 9:41 Ei

   

Just chillin'

   

FINALLY getting their alien on!

Saddest thing is, not a single off spring from such a magnificent falcon.

True dat! 

I firmly believe if it hadn't been for her egg in the nest box that Dot & Beauty wouldn't have worked it out last year. So she did help Orion into the world...

Thanks!

around 15:00 Ei

Sweet!

Look who's in the box!

So it started with a really cool whirlyhead



And then I saw the name. ...Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla).  Thought it was a pun on the picture. It's not...

   
Eurasian Wryneck  
Bird (Species)
The Eurasian Wryneck is a species of wryneck in the family of woodpeckers. This species breeds in temperate regions of Europe and Asia. It is migratory, wintering in tropical Africa and southern Asia. It is a bird of open woodland and orchards. Wikipedia

Scientific name: Jynx torquilla
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Wryneck

I recorded this video last year on Good Friday, April 6, 2012. There never was a really good time to post it. So I'll follow MAK's lead & piggyback on her watch report in memory of Unity.

I had to leave after I shut off the recorder, but I believe this was the last time Unity was at the nest box.

http://youtu.be/wVAzf002VNw

 

Back again... Beauty, right??

No, that's a nest box, Bobbie! 

So not close, then, huh??

Just a minute late 

with a full crop 8:29 Ei

I'm glad you caught them, RM is usually first in the city to lay eggs.  I only see one there now down at the far end.  

I know...and here I thought Quest was going to beat them all. She has been spending much more time hanging around the past few days. It will be soon.

Everyone is early today...