2015 Pictures from the Rfalconcam Cameras

[Carol P.]

Thanks Mom!

[Annette]

Breakfast arrived

[Carol P.]

Beauty and her Peeps!

[Carol P.]

Breakfast is Served!

[Carol P.]

Fog, rain and 48 chilly, damp degrees!

[Carol P.]

Good morning mighty Genesee!

[Carol P.]

Good morning Bronx!

[Carol P.]

Beauty was on Main Cam for a short while.

[Carol P.]

Good morning Cadence!

[Annette]

Good morning Bronx!

Red banded eyas is Cadence. 

[Carol P.]

Good morning Bronx!

Red banded eyas is Cadence. 

Hi Annette.  Cadence has blue tape, Bronx has red tape and Genesee has no tape.   

[Shaky]

Cadence makes a brief trip out onto the platform.

[Kris G.]

Breakfast arrived

DC's been bringing in some big birds!

[Kris G.]

We've seen those dark spots on every brood at Times Square. I don't honestly recall at Kodak-maybe I wasn't watching that closely back then. Could be a Beauty thing. I think DC was trying to figure out how to flip it without hurting it.

They were all up and feeding. All 3 have flopped over at one point or another. The 1st one was a yellow foot-this time it was a pink foot.  One of them flopped over a few minutes ago & righted itself just fine.

We can certainly ask DEC to look at the pictures if anything really seems amiss.

So Carol did ask DEC on Friday about the dark wing-pits. They said it's nothing to be concerned about. Most likely that the skin is very transparent at that stage and we're seeing feather structures starting to develop under the skin.

They all had the typical avian lice which they get from prey and does not require any treatment. No other parasites were mentioned.

I don't understand why they weren't dusted or sprayed for the lice.  I would think if you see lice, you would treat them.  Lice bite, chew, crawl causing itching and irritation..poor babies. 

http://www.themodernapprentice.com/diseases.htm

[Dumpsterkitty]

We've seen those dark spots on every brood at Times Square. I don't honestly recall at Kodak-maybe I wasn't watching that closely back then. Could be a Beauty thing. I think DC was trying to figure out how to flip it without hurting it.

They were all up and feeding. All 3 have flopped over at one point or another. The 1st one was a yellow foot-this time it was a pink foot.  One of them flopped over a few minutes ago & righted itself just fine.

We can certainly ask DEC to look at the pictures if anything really seems amiss.

So Carol did ask DEC on Friday about the dark wing-pits. They said it's nothing to be concerned about. Most likely that the skin is very transparent at that stage and we're seeing feather structures starting to develop under the skin.

They all had the typical avian lice which they get from prey and does not require any treatment. No other parasites were mentioned.

I don't understand why they weren't dusted or sprayed for the lice.  I would think if you see lice, you would treat them.  Lice bite, chew, crawl causing itching and irritation..poor babies.  

http://www.themodernapprentice.com/diseases.htm

Well, I can't speak for the DEC, but if they were given a clean bill of health I see no reason to dust them with poison to kill lice that are now and will always be naturally present throughout their lives. Healthy birds will preen off any that may be bothering them.

Management of this sort of thing in a captive population, as in the article you cited, is an entirely different matter.

Edit...started a topic just for avian lice discussion...found some old info from years ago...