Harrisburg, PA Falcons

[AlisonL]

As of yesterday, Lil Dad and Niecey have four chicks!









Lil Dad with his four chicks, looking very proud:

[patsy6]

How wonderful!   

[Donna]

Love newly hatched falcons!    So cute!!

[AlisonL]

Lil Dad and Niecey are taking great care of the chicks:

[Donna]

Male Cardinal for breakfast! 

[Dumpsterkitty]

Male Cardinal for breakfast! 

And a Blue Jay at some point

[Donna]

  Don't they eat pigeons in Harrisburg?  Red-bellied, earlier it was a red-headed.

[MAK]

Variety is the spice of life! 

[Donna]

   

[Joyce]

The Harrisburg eyases are so busy ledging & growing their pin feathers and flapping.
http://www.pacast.com/players/falcon.asp

At a distance it looks like eyases in the nestbox, but upon closer look it is magnificent poopart!

[Donna]

When do they get banded? Can they catch them??

[Annette]

When do they get banded? Can they catch them??

5/13/2013: Banding Event
The annual Peregrine Falcon banding event will be held Tuesday, May 21 at 1:00 PM in the Rachel Carson State Office Building Auditorium in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The event will be produced and live webcast by Commonwealth Media Services from the DEP Falcon Page. DEP is inviting teachers, with their students and non-formal educators to attend, through a pre-registration process. Biologists will weigh, examine and band the soon to be nearly four week old eyases.

[Donna]

I thought it was next week some time.  They are roaming!!  Thanks Annette

[Donna]

Comet, a falconer's bird, he's 3 years old

[Donna]

3 girls and 1 boy!

Yellow Boy
Blue girl
Red Girl
White Girl

White girl
Blue girl
 Yellow boy

The one in the nest, 1st one banded was Red Girl.


Hope I got this all right, RED WHITE BLUE YELLOW? Couldn't hear that well.