2013 Pictures from the Rfalconcam Cameras

[Carol P.]

A beautiful egg!

[Bird Crazy]

A beautiful egg!

isn't this something to shout about?

[Dumpsterkitty]

A beautiful egg!

isn't this something to shout about?

If only you could have heard me!  Or did you? 

[Bird Crazy]

A beautiful egg!

isn't this something to shout about?

If only you could have heard me!  Or did you? 

nah to busy shouting myself. 

[Patti from Kentucky]

I took Cornell's Courtship & Rivalry in Birds course this winter. A young male sneaking into an established pair and adding himself into the gene pool is quite common in smaller birds. Before so many pefas were banded, who knows how often this might have happened.

I've been reading a book called The Nesting Season (subtitle: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy) by Bernd Heinrich that discusses this and many other facets of bird reproductive habits.  He's an academic, but I find the writing accessible to the lay-armchair-naturalist.

[Dumpsterkitty]

I took Cornell's Courtship & Rivalry in Birds course this winter. A young male sneaking into an established pair and adding himself into the gene pool is quite common in smaller birds. Before so many pefas were banded, who knows how often this might have happened.

I've been reading a book called The Nesting Season (subtitle: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy) by Bernd Heinrich that discusses this and many other facets of bird reproductive habits.  He's an academic, but I find the writing accessible to the lay-armchair-naturalist.

Thanks...adding it to the list...

[Donna]

She ate already! Come see our egg DC!

[margaret]

I took Cornell's Courtship & Rivalry in Birds course this winter. A young male sneaking into an established pair and adding himself into the gene pool is quite common in smaller birds. Before so many pefas were banded, who knows how often this might have happened.

I've been reading a book called The Nesting Season (subtitle: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy) by Bernd Heinrich that discusses this and many other facets of bird reproductive habits.  He's an academic, but I find the writing accessible to the lay-armchair-naturalist.

Thanks...adding it to the list...

It is an excellent book and totally accessible to the lay person!   Read it if you get the chance.

[Paul Hamilton]

One more note of appreciation for "The Nesting Season." It's one of the best bird books around.

Paul

[Donna]

Beauty and ???

[Bobbie Ireland]

Woohooooooooooooooooooo...EGG!!!!!! 

And... of course... I MISSED IT!!!

[Bonnie]

That UT has to be one crafty, smart, genius falcon to have figured out when DC is with Pigott and Beauty is free.

Beauty and ???

[Dumpsterkitty]

You up there honey?

[Donna]

Incoming, looks like both. One behind the other.
B has food in nest, DC by egg

DC took food and left

[Dumpsterkitty]

B has food in nest, DC by egg

Hey Donna-Dot has seen the egg!