Found this on the Stork site in Hungary

[Donna]

July this year was the first time in the Carpathian Basin westernmost steppe habitat, the plane-Moson-footed falcon chicks  This bird, the Hungarian-Austrian-Slovakian border region below the limit of the spread, just west of here  occur.  Partly it is a major improvement to this year, found in the outskirts of Mosonszolnok költőpár two-fledged have seen a color ring.  On this basis, without any additional capture - of course using a good pair of binoculars - will be able to identify them.  (This is the best translation I could find.

[MAK]

These 2 are very cute!!!

[Donna]

.....bu then I found this also! 

The storms came

This was the nest that got away!

It leveled everything

The sad account: just what we found, 21 red-footed falcon carcasses in the region during the nest-box colonies, including 7-ring, marked copies of the previous years.

How horrible! Poor Falcons.

[anneintoronto]

Nature can be very hard...  it's hard to understand why these things happen.  And, reality is often not very pleasant!  But I'm sure the remaining falcons, perhaps with the assistance of some caring human beings, will start up again -- maybe in a safer nesting site...  Although, with that kind of storm, perhaps no place would have been safe...hard to say.  But we know that Nature can be very good, too!  We'll keep our fingers crossed!!

Anne in Toronto

[NoraH]

That looks like one nasty storm, those clouds are fascinating, but so sad about the falcons.  I did notice in the picture of the two banded kids the person must have gotten footed pretty good on the arm.

[NoraH]

Wasn't that a red-footed falcon a few years ago that showed up out east and was watched for a while by people coming from all over because one had never been seen in the US?  Maybe by Martha's Vineyard or that area?

[Donna]

Wasn't that a red-footed falcon a few years ago that showed up out east and was watched for a while by people coming from all over because one had never been seen in the US?  Maybe by Martha's Vineyard or that area?

Yup, last year I posted an article from Vernon Laux about spotting the Red Footed Falcon on Cape Cod. I believe in October.