Richmond, VA Falcons

[Shaky]

News about Maggie from Richmond (See posts from 2014). She now has a book.

Maggie the One-Eyed Peregrine Falcon

This children's book tells the true story of an injured juvenile Peregrine falcon. Rfalconcam is proud to have supplied photographs from our cameras for this book.

https://www.facebook.com/maggietheperegrinefalcon/

[Dumpsterkitty]

News about Maggie from Richmond (See posts from 2014). She now has a book.

Maggie the One-Eyed Peregrine Falcon

This children's book tells the true story of an injured juvenile Peregrine falcon. Rfalconcam is proud to have supplied photographs from our cameras for this book.

https://www.facebook.com/maggietheperegrinefalcon/

How neat is that! Might have to buy it just for the pictures!

[Shaky]

News about Maggie from Richmond (See posts from 2014). She now has a book.

Maggie the One-Eyed Peregrine Falcon

This children's book tells the true story of an injured juvenile Peregrine falcon. Rfalconcam is proud to have supplied photographs from our cameras for this book.

https://www.facebook.com/maggietheperegrinefalcon/

We just received our photographer copies of this book.  They look great! If you'd like your own copy, any bookstore can stock and/or order it. Amazon has it as well.

[Kris G.]

News about Maggie from Richmond (See posts from 2014). She now has a book.

Maggie the One-Eyed Peregrine Falcon

This children's book tells the true story of an injured juvenile Peregrine falcon. Rfalconcam is proud to have supplied photographs from our cameras for this book.

https://www.facebook.com/maggietheperegrinefalcon/

We just received our photographer copies of this book.  They look great! If you'd like your own copy, any bookstore can stock and/or order it. Amazon has it as well.

I ordered mine from the Wildlife Center of Virginia's store and received it in 4 days. They said that if people order from their site, the Center will receive more profit from the book.

Their website: http://wildlifecenter.org/

[Donna]

http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/columns/rob-hedelt-one-eyed-falcon-s-happy-ending-has-a/article_7879e71b-2868-59d8-8c53-310d0d9a1055.html  How it all came about, "Maggie the One-Eyed Peregrine Falcon"

[carly]

Harriet is gone, a new unbanded female is paired with Ozzie now.  She would have been around 17 years old as is Ozzie.  I will miss her, she was a beautiful falcon that endured many challenges trying to reproduce over the years.  I hope she is flying free now. 

https://blog.wildlife.virginia.gov/falcon-cam/2017/03/nesting-season-begins-with-new-partners-and-new-female-falcon/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=falcon_cam&utm_medium=link_share

[Dumpsterkitty]

The new female resembles Beauty in her coloration.

Sad to lose one we knew so well but glad that nature keeps moving along...

[MAK]

 

[Kris G.]

Harriet is gone, a new unbanded female is paired with Ozzie now.  She would have been around 17 years old as is Ozzie.  I will miss her, she was a beautiful falcon that endured many challenges trying to reproduce over the years.  I hope she is flying free now. 

https://blog.wildlife.virginia.gov/falcon-cam/2017/03/nesting-season-begins-with-new-partners-and-new-female-falcon/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=falcon_cam&utm_medium=link_share

                       

[Carol P.]

So sad to lose her. 

[Donna]

16 is a good life! Fly Free! 

[patsy6]

Farewell to Harriet, and I thank her for her excellent contribution to the species.   

[AlisonL]

Some really good news from the Richmond nest:

Richmond’s Juvenile Male Falcon Spotted in New Jersey!



Beautiful photo by Dave Rivera – www.dabitz.com

A wildlife photographer in New Jersey captured images of Richmond’s juvenile male Peregrine Falcon that fledged from this year’s nest! Images that nicely showed the bird’s black and green leg bands of 46/AU allowed us to make the identification. These photos were taken August 13th, around noon, in Lyndhurst, New Jersey at Richard W. DeKorte Park. The photographer reported that he saw the bird for just a few seconds as it dove toward a wetland at the park, then circled twice above him and then took off.

Many thanks to the photographer for capturing these photos, noting the leg bands, and sharing them with the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, which helped the photos to eventually find their way to our agency.

This juvenile male Peregrine Falcon fledged from its nest site atop the Riverfront Plaza Building in downtown Richmond on June 29th. It is the sole survivor of this year’s clutch of three chicks. To learn more about this juvenile male and the Richmond Falcons, visit the Richmond Falcon Cam.

https://blog.wildlife.virginia.gov/falcon-cam/2017/09/juvenile-male-falcon-spotted-in-new-jersey/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link_share

[MAK]

Wow, the only survivor from that site. Keep it up young one!! Thanks Alison! 

[AlisonL]

The Richmond cam is active again, and there is an update on the birds:

Welcome to a new season of the Richmond Falcon Cam. We are pleased to share that a male and female peregrine falcon have been observed at the nest box over the last couple of weeks. They have already have made a scrape in the nest box (a scrape is a shallow bowl-shaped depression in the substrate that forms a nest). The same banded male who has bred here over the years has returned–hatched in 2000, he will be 18 years old this year! (To date, the maximum lifespan documented for a banded falcon in the wild is just shy of 20 years.) However, the female we’ve observed is not the banded female that successfully bred here in 2017; she appears to have been replaced.



Ozzie in the nest, and the new unbanded female above. Image from the site.

This year’s female is very buffy and unbanded and may be the same female that first paired with the male last season, prior to being replaced by the banded female who went on to breed. There are similarities in the plumage of the two unbanded birds, but also subtle differences, such that it is difficult to determine whether they are the same individual. Regardless of this female bird’s identity, we look forward to seeing how this breeding season unfolds!

I can hardly believe that Ozzie will be 18 years old this year; I am very glad that he is still the resident tiercel at this nest. Sorry that last year's female has apparently been replaced.

https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/falcon-cam/