Salt Lake City peregrine cam

[Annette]

March 14, 2011 update

Salt Lake City's peregrine falcon adults have been observed in the area of the nest box located on the
east face of at the northeast corner of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building in downtown Salt Lake City.

If everything goes as planned—and the peregrine pair decides to use the specially outfitted nest box—then the peregrine falcon cam will be up and running soon for the 2011 nesting season. The camera should
be online after the April 2–3 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Sometime during the week beginning April 3 or as early as Monday, April 4, 2011, you should find the
links for the live video feeds on this page.

[rynnac]

Per the Utah Division of Wildlife page, the webcams went live yesterday, but all I'm getting is a black box.

Check out:  http://wildlife.utah.gov/peregrine/  for info on the Salt Lack City (SLC) PeFa.

The actual nestcam links are:

mms://stream.lds.org/falcons
mms://stream.lds.org/nestcam


Nancy in UT   (not in SLC, unfortunately, so I don't get to see the falcons)

[Annette]

You must have patience.  The download takes a while.
Both cams are running.

[rynnac]

You must have patience.  The download takes a while.
Both cams are running.

Thanks for the tip!  My patience was rewarded by a sighting of one of the two falcons, I don't know which as I can't tell them apart by sight and there is nothing to reference size by at the moment.  Maybe I can start using their "Orville" as a reference, as it is fairly big!  LOL

Two pictures captured from their webcam of the bird, one in the scrape depression, the other preening on the edge of the nestbox.

[rynnac]

  

The SLC Perigrine couple have an egg!!  I don't know when it showed up, as I hadn't checked the nest cam in a while, but there it is tonight, pretty as can be!  Woohoo, we may have babies again this year!

Nancy in UT

 

[Donna]

Nice, love 1st eggs! 

[MAK]

 

[Annette]

 

[rynnac]

The second egg for the SLC peregrine nest has appeared!  Yay!

[MAK]

 

[rynnac]

The last I've seen, there are only two eggs and hard incubation is underway for the last 2-3 days.  Here is a close-up picture from camera 2, and a long-shot picture from Camera1 that shows where s/he is nesting in relationship to the entire nest box (s/he is in the far left corner of the box).  The scenery visible outside the box in the long shot is the "mall" walk area outside the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (formerly the Hotel Utah ages ago) in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

[rynnac]

The last I've seen, there are only two eggs

Update:  there are 4 eggs!!  I don't have a picture yet to show off, but she moved briefly yesterday and I clearly saw four eggs underneath her.  Woohoo!!

Nancy in UT

[Donna]

The last I've seen, there are only two eggs

Update:  there are 4 eggs!!  I don't have a picture yet to show off, but she moved briefly yesterday and I clearly saw four eggs underneath her.  Woohoo!!

Nancy in UT

Nice 4....thanks!

[MAK]

 

[rynnac]

Here is a picture of momma (I think) up and turning the 4 eggs.  The 4th is behind her feet.  This was the only shot I could get of the 4 eggs, she's sticking to them pretty hard.  I think they have been in full time incubation for about a week now, so there's still quite a ways to go.  A (very) rough estimate would have the hatching occurring around Memorial Day.  I hope we don't have unseasonably cold (i.e., snowy) weather that weekend like we did a couple of years ago that resulted in the death of two of the eyases.

Nancy