Woodmen Falconcam 2016

[AlisonL]

There is good news today about one of the 2014 chicks from the Woodmen nest. Elsa, a daughter of Hera and Mintaka, banded black/red D/43, has been spotted in western Iowa, some ten miles from the Omaha nest site. Her grandparents are Alley and 19/K at the Lincoln nest; her great-grandparents are Princess and Trey at the Radisson nest in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

She is absolutely stunning. The beautiful photos are by Cary Smithson.





More photos and information on Joel Jorgensen's blog:

http://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2016/01/peregrine-falcon-news-from-frozen-and-iowa/

[Donna]

Oh she is a cutie, thanks Alison.

[MAK]

Very sweet face! 

[DebInTexas]

She is a cutie!  So good to hear of a Woodmen offspring - it so seldom happens.  Thanks for the update, Alison.

[Kris G.]

Looks like there's been a changeover this year!

http://woodmen.typepad.com/falconwatch/2016/03/woodmenlife-has-some-new-neighbors-in-the-nest.html

Falconcam link:  https://falcons.woodmen.org/falcon-cam.cfm

[DebInTexas]

Looks like the first egg for the new Woodmen pair.

[Kris G.]

Looks like the first egg for the new Woodmen pair.

       

[Donna]

Thanks Deb!! 

[AlisonL]

Looks like the first egg for the new Woodmen pair.

Thank you, Deb! Glad to see an egg there!

[AlisonL]

Looks like there's been a changeover this year!

http://woodmen.typepad.com/falconwatch/2016/03/woodmenlife-has-some-new-neighbors-in-the-nest.html
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Thank you for the link to that Typepad entry, Kris! There is no longer a link visible on my screen, so I thought it had been discontinued.

With all due respect to the people at Woodmen, I think they are a little bit confused. 19/K from Lincoln was at the Woodmen nest in February from about the 15th to the 19th, and I also have photos of him in the nest from February 7 of this year.

However, he returned to his nest in Lincoln before the end of February and has remained there with his mate, Alley.

From the Typepad entry:

3/6:  Falcon-watcher "Lisa" got a good picture of both falcons in the nest, and assuming the one IN the nest is 19K, the falcon perched on the side of the nest would be an unbanded female. Charity, our female from 2015, was unbanded as well.

In that picture, the bird perched on the side of the nest is banded. Since 19/K had returned home before the date of the pic, I think this bird may well be Mintaka, and that the bird in the nest is probably Charity.

Joel Jorgensen at the Lincoln site has confirmed that 19/K is in Lincoln with his mate:

http://magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2016/03/same-pair/

[DebInTexas]

Alison, I do hope we do have Mintaka and Charity again.  They now have two eggs this morning. 

[DebInTexas]

Woodmen now has 3 eggs.

[MAK]

Woodmen now has 3 eggs.

    

[DebInTexas]

The first two Woodmen chicks have hatched this morning.  Two more to go.

Here's a pic of the first hatching, as mom returns to shoo dad off the eggs!

[Donna]

  Thanks Deb!!