Carol,

Do you think Mike Allen would be interested in contributing?  (At least providing some oral history-- or a DEC perspective)?

Good idea Jeanne.  I was thinking that we should also have an area that would contain interviews with key people, Watchers, Falcon Fans.  Also, a section for all of our stories, of which there are many.   

I actually missed her flying down to the telephone line.  I had just pulled away, when my phone rang.  Kathy excitedly told me she had flown towards her and landed on the telephone wire near the parking lot we watch from!  I quickly did a U-turn and looked back towards the smoke stacks in time to see her land close to where she had been originally.

I think these will be the sections we should consider.

1) Mariah & Cabot-Sirocco Years
2) Mariah & Kaver Years
3) Archer & Beauty Years

We might also want to include a section on the time before that, when RG&E was involved with helping to bring the Peregrine Falcon back to this area.  Lisa McK are you out there?  I know you have a lot of information from that time.

Any other suggestions???

Carol P.

Just a little thought that flickered for a moment -- any follow-up on offspring we know are somewhere, succeeding in their adult lives?  Or is that covered somewhere else...?  I'm still not caught up on everything that is going on here...although I am looking more!  Of course, I am thinking about your "adopted" daughter, Carol, the one and only Rhea Mae!!  But, there are some others.  Or is this strictly what has happened in Rochester and The Nesting Box?  Just looking for clarification, I guess... Thanks, Carol!
Anne in Toronto

You are absolutely correct Anne!

We will definitely include sections for the M&K/M&CS young that we know about; including Rhea Mae, Valiant, Seneca, Freedom, Alkyonis, Quest, etc, etc. and then there's the grandkids.  I think Ei has a pretty extensive list due to her work on the family tree.

Also, our transmitter birds and what happened to them; Hafoc, Skye & Quest.

Let our brainstorming session begin!

Beautiful pictures Donna.  Thanks for sharing.

and you're right, the male does look a lot like Kaver.   

and one other section should be:

4) Falcons at KP???

I have high hopes that we'll need this section.   

I think these will be the sections we should consider.

1) Mariah & Cabot-Sirocco Years
2) Mariah & Kaver Years
3) Archer & Beauty Years

We might also want to include a section on the time before that, when RG&E was involved with helping to bring the Peregrine Falcon back to this area.  Lisa McK are you out there?  I know you have a lot of information from that time.

Any other suggestions???

Carol P.

Current List of Volunteers:
It's understood that some have more time than others to help or contribute to this project.

Kris G.
Aafke
Donna
MAK
Karen R.
Patti from KY
Paul H.
Joyce
Ginha
Dale
Jeanne
Ei
Kathy O.
Anne in Toronto
Jim P.
Shaky
Brad C.

Have I missed anyone?  Is there anyone else that would like to volunteer?

Thanks!
Carol P.

How could we forget Donna!   

Heard from Brad Carney and he is more than happy to help with the earlier Mariah/Cabot-Sirocco stuff.   

I'll be posting some information soon, so we can get started.

Thanks to all that have volunteered.  We could sure use some more help if anyone else is able to help out.

those spoonbills are so science fiction.

Here is a drawing I did a number of years ago, from a TERRIFIC photo by Chad and Chris Saladin - a confrontation between a RED-TAILED HAWK and a peregrine falcon.

Dale

Love this picture Dale!   

All the artists that submitted logos did a great job and I'm content with the final choices.  Thanks to all the contributing artists and congrats to the artist of the winning logo (whoever it might be), chosen by the fans of Rfalconcam.

Thanks to all the forum members that left feedback and comments on the logo submissions.

Good job everyone!  

"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
~Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding - From the Shawshank Redemption.

Carol P.

Definitely keep voting when you can.  We need to get back to #1!!!

Happy Sinterklass Aafke, Carla and Tine!

as I said no harm no foul. I know Mariah isn't coming back to Rochester (I just wish we knew where she is at I hope she found a new territory). Beauty is now our Lady of Mercury. Ruler of the Rochester skies. Long as she gives us babies to watch I'm OK with that. Which is part of the reason I would like a nest box put over on the  KP site so the lady over there doesn't get designs on downtown. I don't think I want to go through any more fights. even second hand watching from the internet.

I hear ya BC.  I too hope there are no more territorial battles.  Although it is a Pefa's nature to do this and I have no doubt it will happen again.  I just hope that there are Watchers that witness it and help if they can.

Every day I wonder where Mariah is.  Hoping she is doing well wherever she is.   and I still don't give up hope that someday we'll see her again.  I have a heart shaped pendant that I wear with her name on it.  Just so I never forget.   

I am so happy that Beauty and Archer have chosen Rochester as their home and that we may have a 2nd Pefa family next year!   Watching over young fledglings is my favorite thing to do. 

Lady is a good "title" for Beauty and Lady Pefa.