2011 Pictures from the Rfalconcam cameras

[Kris G.]

Not a nice thing to wake up to, heart-breaking.
(movie) Beauty puts the egg out

Correction: Someone on Ustream said that when Beauty got up to stretch, the egg was stuck to her chest and it fell out of the nest. Maybe it had a crack and was leaking. Not sure what really happened but the last egg is out. 

It looked like the last egg kinda folded over.  

This is all so sad but what seems the saddest is when Archer, not realizing the egg was on the porch, started incubating without skipping a beat.  As mad as I've been over his liason with Unity, he has been such a steadfast brooder, being there at a moment's notice to relieve Beauty.  When he removed the egg-that was really the final heartbreaker-I guess realizing the finality of it all.  Then for our faithful watcher, MAK, to find the egg.  Very sad for her but appropriate that she was the one. Thanks, MAK, for being there.   

[Kris G.]

(movie)

Looking for her eggs. 

[margaret]

What does this disruption do to  their hormones?  I am assuming that the falcons' hormone levels change during breeding and nesting and hatching season?   It does seem that A and B are looking confused or perplexed?  I'm guessing that their instincts and hormones are still in one mode, but  I'm also wondering how that will affect them for the rest of what is their breeding season.  Is it a good sign that both Mark B and MAK saw them mating? 

[carly]

They will either return to normal within a few days or recycle margaret.  Conventional thinking in the past said they if they lost their eggs early in the cycle then they would reclutch...any later and the opportunity would be lost until next year. 

HOWEVER now with web cams we have seen quite a few pairs reclutch at various points in the process..including the Dayton pair who are now putting to rest the claim that if the eggs hatch and something happens..no way they'd reclutch..well we now have a new egg in the box so that theory has now been shot down too. 

I think honestly anything is possible here and we'll just have to wait and see what A & B do.

[Bobbie Ireland]

Everyone - make sure you read MAK's blog for today under "Falcon Watch". She has written a wonderful report of today's happenings, bringing all of us in to her experiences. Well done, MAK, even tho it was a sad day. You were meant to find that egg. No one else would have realised its importance. Nor would they have treated it with such love and respect.

[margaret]

 

Everyone - make sure you read MAK's blog for today under "Falcon Watch". She has written a wonderful report of today's happenings, bringing all of us in to her experiences. Well done, MAK, even tho it was a sad day. You were meant to find that egg. No one else would have realised its importance. Nor would they have treated it with such love and respect.

 

Yes to what Bobbie posted!  Visit MAK's blog post from today -- under the Falconwatch tab.  
Read it and appreciate all the posts that have allowed us to follow these fabulous falcons.

[Wing Goose]

Help.  I don't know where to find MAK's Blog. 
I would appreciate any assistance.
Thank you.
       
             Lola

[jeanne]

Under the logo, it will say blog.  Click on that and one of the options is the falcon watch

[Wing Goose]

I don't know where "Falconwatch" is.
       
     Lola

[Wing Goose]

Found it!  Thanks so much.
     
    Lola

[margaret]

You know, I think that other watchers/viewers -- not just Lola -- may have difficulty locating the Blogs.
Maybe somewhere on here, there should be information about accessing the blogs -- both Falconwatch and Imprints, and of course the Quest blog.  (Maybe there is and I just don't know it!)
 

I even saw today that some weren't sure how to post a comment under the forum or having difficulty doing so.  Perhaps under the home page, there could be a section for that. Shaky? Is that something you can do?
I still don't know how to capture a picture and attached it to a post! 
Maybe a section called Navigating Falconcam ? 
I know I have learned an awful lot --and made a lot of blunders -- navigating these pages and watching our falcons and posting comments.

[Carol P.]

You know, I think that other watchers/viewers -- not just Lola -- may have difficulty locating the Blogs.
Maybe somewhere on here, there should be information about accessing the blogs -- both Falconwatch and Imprints, and of course the Quest blog.  (Maybe there is and I just don't know it!)
 

I even saw today that some weren't sure how to post a comment under the forum or having difficulty doing so.  Perhaps under the home page, there could be a section for that. Shaky? Is that something you can do?
I still don't know how to capture a picture and attached it to a post! 
Maybe a section called Navigating Falconcam ? 
I know I have learned an awful lot --and made a lot of blunders -- navigating these pages and watching our falcons and posting comments.

Hey Margaret - at the top of each page on the blue banner, under the RFalconcam logo, is where you can find "blogs" (near the center).  Click on that and then choose which blog you would like to read.

[Carol P.]

Everyone - make sure you read MAK's blog for today under "Falcon Watch". She has written a wonderful report of today's happenings, bringing all of us in to her experiences. Well done, MAK, even tho it was a sad day. You were meant to find that egg. No one else would have realised its importance. Nor would they have treated it with such love and respect.

I know I would have and any of the Rochester Falcon Watchers that found it.  

[margaret]

You know, I think that other watchers/viewers -- not just Lola -- may have difficulty locating the Blogs.
Maybe somewhere on here, there should be information about accessing the blogs -- both Falconwatch and Imprints, and of course the Quest blog.  (Maybe there is and I just don't know it!)
 

I even saw today that some weren't sure how to post a comment under the forum or having difficulty doing so.  Perhaps under the home page, there could be a section for that. Shaky? Is that something you can do?
I still don't know how to capture a picture and attached it to a post! 
Maybe a section called Navigating Falconcam ? 
I know I have learned an awful lot --and made a lot of blunders -- navigating these pages and watching our falcons and posting comments.

Hey Margaret - at the top of each page on the blue banner, under the RFalconcam logo, is where you can find "blogs" (near the center).  Click on that and then choose which blog you would like to read.

Hi Carol - yes I know that.  I've read and posted on the blogs many times, but a few others posting commented that they had a difficult time posting a comment.  And someone just asked how to locate MAK's blog post.   It seems there have been a number of new members sign up, and I just was wondering if it was all clear to them.  :-)

[Dumpsterkitty]

There is a section of the forum with questions & answers here

There is also a help page on the forum tabs just above (home-help-search-profile-my messages...etc) or click here. It outlines tha basics of how this forum works.

That being said, since I hadn't looked at those pages in a while it took me a bit to find them.  Perhaps they could be pinned to the top of the forum home page.  And perhaps we old-timers should come up with a quick reference guide now that we have figured out how to navigate pretty quickly.  Yes, I volunteer to coordinate it-I'll start a separate note for suggestions and items that people are finding the most vexing to figure out.  The guide, once complete, can then take the pinned at the top spot.