Last year, Rob Palmer brought you the photos of the playful burrowing owl brothers in Colorado.

His website, titled falconphotos.com, is full of fantastic pictures!

For example, a peregrine going after ducks,


a young moose,


and battling bald eagles.


Enjoy!

I have noticed several times today that, during the day, Beauty talked to the eggs as she was shifting around and/or turning them.

However, this evening after dark, she has not talked to the eggs while she was shifting or turning them the two times I have seen her - I've just heard her rustling about.

Is this a known behavior? And, could it be that it starts the programming of the circadian rhythms for the developing eyases? 

Or, by the end of the day, is she just too tired to talk?

Anyone?

At first I thought it was someone going over a steel plate in the road, and then I realized it was fireworks at Frontier.

(movie)

Beauty, however, was not impressed! (I think I saw debris flying into the nest box just before she turned around at 10:20, but I'm not sure...)

Mercury is really a big boy isn't he?

From RocWiki:
The Mercury statue, a landmark of downtown Rochester, was created in 1881 by J. Guernsey Mitchell. Mitchell was commissioned by his brother-in-law, William Kimball, the owner of the William S. Kimball Tobacco Factory, located at the corner of Court Street and Exchange Street, to craft this statue out of riveted copper plates. Once the 21 foot tall statue was completed, it was installed atop one of the factory smokestacks and quickly became a hallmark of the Rochester Skyline.

In 1951, the factory was demolished to make way for the Rochester War Memorial. The statue was placed in storage until 1973, when it was re-introduced in the Rochester skyline — this time atop the Aqueduct Building, one block north of its original home.

He's a lot bigger than I realized!

Several people have posted about feathers flying, but it's really quite amusing to see how far they actually get flung!

Thanks for giving it a visual!

Hey... you behind that camera... are you catching this?

Evidently, some vervet monkeys have the same proclivities for alcohol as humans...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/pSm7BcQHWXk

Archer didn't fight it much...

It took us weeks of tweeking the two inside cameras to make them line up like that.  Every hour someone had to go out during the harsh winter days to move one left, then right, then up, then down, then left, then right.............  Well, you get the picture.  Hahahahahahaha!   

You picked the harsh winter days to make sure the cameras stayed frozen where you put them, no?

Perhaps it's just that I've been unobservant, but have cams 2 and 3 always been that way? It looks like Archer is sitting in an ell-shaped box, looking at his own behind in front of him.

Whoever lined up the shots like that, thanks for the symmetry... I did a double-take for a sec...

and vocal too...

Beauty does some nestbox dancing...

(movie)

 

Archer's been on almost 3 hours this morning... I love the colors in the early morning sun!