Peregrines in San Josee

[Annette]

Hi,

the female Clara just laid her first egg.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/nestcamSJ.htm


Greetings
Annette

[Annette]

I found in another forum, the video of laying the first egg. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sbScvxeHPs

[Carol P.]

Annette - Thanks for letting us know what's going on with this pair.   

[Annette]

The female Clara laid her second egg.

[Donna]

Wow nice......Come on Mariah and Beauty....find a date. 

[valhalla]

Wow nice......Come on Mariah and Beauty....find a date. 

Waiting for Mr. Right?

[Bird Crazy]

In Mariah's case it would be hard to live up to the legend of  Kaver  .

Beauty shouldn't be so picky, or maybe Archer should get his tail feathers home.

[Donna]

In Mariah's case it would be hard to live up to the legend of  Kaver  .

Beauty shouldn't be so picky, or maybe Archer should get his tail feathers home.

No male could  ever measure up to Kaver. 

[Bird Crazy]

I agree.  Kaver

[Donna]

SJ City Hall Falcon Cam

Clara and Esteban Colbert are a voyeur's dream. They live their lives in full view of a newly upgraded Web cam and are now awaiting the birth of their four new babies. They even have a Facebook fan page with nearly 500 fans and anxious onlookers who are helping to lay out details of their soap opera lives.

The two are San Jose's famous peregrine falcon couple who live atop City Hall and are now incubating four eggs.

When Clara laid the first egg on March 2, there was some question as to who the daddy was but video evidence turned up a few days later showing Esteban on incubation duty after Clara squeezed out the third egg. Sorry, Esteban, you're not getting away with denying you're the daddy. Now it's all documented on Flickr.

This is the fourth year mama Clara has laid eggs in birds' home overlooking San Jose. Glenn Stewart, biologist with the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, predicts the chicks will hatch at about the end of Easter Week.

"The eggs are being incubated," Stewart said, "and for now, it's going to be a little boring until they hatch."

A week after she delivered the first egg, Clara laid the fourth egg -- and it's all documented on Flickr. Stewart says four eggs are a typical clutch for falcons.  The three young falcons born last spring have all migrated to find territories of their own. A fourth egg from that clutch never hatched.

Once they have all hatched, the city will open up the naming rights to all in the form of a contest. And in the true spirit of the "everything online" era -- Clara will tweet the chirping new arrivals.

[Annette]

Today betwen 7am and 8am is banding day.

[Annette]

I have created Banding day in San Jose 2010.

http://www.kodakgallery.de/ShareLanding.action?c=bozg71ut.27erx00o1&x=0&y=-8xvdjx&localeid=de_DE

Enjoy!


Greetings
Annette

[Donna]

I have created Banding day in San Jose 2010.

http://www.kodakgallery.de/ShareLanding.action?c=bozg71ut.27erx00o1&x=0&y=-8xvdjx&localeid=de_DE

Enjoy!


Greetings
Annette

Very nice Annette..he's brave doing that alone with no one helping..Mom and dad didn't seem to be too bad.

[MAK]

   Thanks Annette!   

[Donna]

    SAN JOSE -- The three Peregrine Falcon fledglings sitting atop San Jose's City Hall have undergone an examination that will make naming them easier. Glen Stewart with the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group has determined what their genders are. Two of them are male and the other is female.

    After conducting the examination, Stewart was able to put bands on them. However, the banding did not come easily. Falcon parents Clara and Esteban Colbert swooped down on the perceived intruder 50 to 80 times while he was trying to work. He says that the parents thought they won the battle after he left the ledge.

    Stewart says the fledglings are in "robust" condition.

    San Jose students are holding a naming contest for the falcons.

Wasn't there 4 eggs?