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Rochester Falcons / Rochester Falcon Offspring / Re: Quest and Kendal - Toronto/Don Mills
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on: 24-Sep-11, 10:42:35 AM
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Every pair is different. Both of my local peregrines hang out in the box for long periods, even during the winter. I don't know why. Maybe it's more comfortable than the bridge girders. I recall that the Herberts wrote, after years watching the Hudson Palisades falcons, that every site was different, and the variations in both the personalities of the individual peregrines and the topography and terrain of the nest site were the likely causes.
Paul
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Rochester Falcons / Rochester Falcon Discussion / Re: So, What Does Everyone Think about the Rochester Falcons Situation?
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on: 03-Sep-11, 08:38:28 PM
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A lot of us have forgotten that Archer did a great job of incubation. What if one or more eggs had hatched? That likely would have ensured that he had little time for Unity. He was a good father last year and might have been an even better one this year. We might even be comparing him to Kaver.
I had a good falcon summer. I got to experience courtship, egg-laying, and incubation through rfalconcam. Afterwards, I got to experience the post-nesting life of a peregrine pair through the reports by MAK, Carol, and others. I followed Quest, Kendal and Harlequin, and got to see a fuzzball become a falcon. Finally, I spent lots of time with my own pair. Even though they are far more experienced and in a milder climate, they only hatched one out of four, so that there could have been an nest failure here as well.
I missed out on seeing my falcon friends again during Fledge Weekend. With only a single juvenile at my site, I also missed out on talon tag.
I keep thinking of the poetic passage by Glenn Stewart of the SCPBRG, which I have posted before in its entirety:
...The strong and the lucky are the ones that end up on an eyrie ledge, face into the wind. And their annual production of young--their courtship, 33 days of meditative attention to their eggs, and 60 or more days of care and feeding of their young--is a hedge against the spring when they are no longer at that eyrie. So they each get this chance. They push their way out of an eggshell and struggle to hold their head up in a cold world. They grow and they fly. With strength, determination, and a measure of luck, they are out there each day, face into the wind.
I love that phrase. As long as they face into the wind, I'll be there, too. It's the least I can do.
Paul
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Anything Else / Totally OT / Re: Hurricane Irene
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on: 28-Aug-11, 11:55:21 AM
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Paul checking in here. We have one tree down in our yard, and lots of leaves, small branches, and twigs everywhere. It's as if forest giants had a big party with lots of green confetti. Our power held on until a bit past midnight and then decided that it had performed sufficiently in the face of overwhelming odds, and departed. The robo-voice on the telephone says that the electrons will report for duty again between noon and six. Our peak wind was 58 mph (93 kph), a tie with the last big storm, Isabel, in 2003. We prepared as we did for Isabel, and got the about the same outcome. It felt just like Isabel, in terms of wind and rain, but it lasted a good deal longer.
No word from the people on Ocracoke since yesterday, but flooding may have trashed the telephones. They did make it through the highest winds, which were a far more challenging 85 mph (137 kph).
Best wishes to all you falcon fans who are in the storm now.
Paul
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