The 2014 Rfalconcam Calendars are now available!

The Merchandise Team, with a lot of help from some friends, has completed the 2014 Rfalconcam Calendars. There are two versions this year; one with full page main camera shots and one made up of main camera collages.

What a great way to relive the 2013 Rochester Falcons season with pictures of Beauty, Dot.ca, Pigott (yes, Pigott visited the nest box early in the year), Rosetta, Voyager and Baron and to support the Rfalconcam cameras!

— Be sure to click on this picture to see the full version.

Both Calendars should be showing up in our Holiday & Calendars Category on Zazzle very shortly.

Thanks very much for your continued support!

Here are the two links to the new calendars on our Zazzle page.

Link For the Main Camera Full page picture calendar.

Link For the Main Camera Collage Calendar:

Spring is almost upon us and I would like to wish you all an enjoyable peregrine breeding season. In the past few years funding and personnel cuts have been made at the DEC, due to budget cuts. Hence, the DEC will not have as much time in the future to find injured and dead falcons as they have in the past.

GVAS volunteers are only allowed to search, rescue and recover injured or dead peregrines only on the ground. We then work with the DEC to get the peregrine to a veterinarian or rehabilitator. We will have to give them all the time they need to get the task completed.

Please remember we will do our best to take care of situations when they arise but, these are wild animals that naturally have conflicts with territorial intruders. Sometimes these conflicts end in injury or death. Please try to remain calm during these times or remove yourself from the situation for the day. Emotional responses from a few people make these events even more unpleasant for the rest of us. Let us observe and help each other learn the life cycle and behavior of peregrine falcons.

Thank you.

June Summers, President, Genesee Valley Audubon Society

May all our wandering falcons return safely to their mates. May there be no arguments over territories. May many small eyases fill all the nest sites. May all the fledglings be successful. May all those that watch the falcons have a prosperous 2013!

Thank you for your continued support.

The Rfalconcam family wishes you and your families a very Happy New Year!

Join us tonight at 10 PM ET on streaming video Channels 1 and 2 to watch the fireworks over downtown Rochester from a bird’s eye view!

We’ll be meeting again later at the Forum Chat & Ustream Social Stream to ring in the New Year together!

And let’s not forget the Watcher’s Toast New Year’s Day at 1 PM!

Look forward to seeing everyone there!

The merchandise Team has been working really hard to be able to offer new items in time for the holiday season.

There are many new items in our “Beauty Years” and “Rfalconcam Logo” collections.

We have also added a new category called the “B. Weaver Orion Collection”. Barb has very kindly given us permission to use her water color image of Orion. You might even see a small, familiar yellowish rock nearby. Thank you Barb!

Lastly, we are offering a very unique and beautiful candy jar which includes Barb’s image of Orion and our other contributing artist, Dale Pesmen’s image of an eyas & a blue jay feather, along with the Rfalconcam logo. Both Dale and Barb have allowed us to use these pictures and we thank them both. It can currently be seen under the “B. Weaver Orion Collection”.

Did you know that if you would like a specific design on a different style shirt or a different color than being shown, all you have to do is click on “See all Styles” under the “Color & Style Options”? There are many to choose from. Check it out!

Just click on this link to check out the RFalconcam Zazzle Store for these new items, offered just in time for the holidays and thank you for supporting the Rochester Falconcam!

http://www.zazzle.com/rfalconcam/gifts

The Rochester Falconcam Merchandise Team has been working really hard to bring you new items in time for the holiday season. We have items with Beauty, Dot.ca, Orion, Pigott, Archer, Unity and Mariah & Kaver!

Be sure to check out the collection of 2012 Christmas Ornaments!

More items will be available soon. So keep checking!

Thank you for supporting the Rochester Falconcam!

Just click on this link to see what’s new at the RFalconcam Store!

http://www.zazzle.com/rfalconcam/gifts

ROC the Day returns this year on 12/12/12. After such great success last year (thanks to our generous supporters!) Rfalconcam will be participating once again. We’ll be sure to keep you posted as more information become available.

Let’s ROC the Day together!

We have been informed that the missing content cannot be recovered. We are going to resume normal operations of the site without it. This means that the Forum and FalconWatch blog are now open for use. Missing posts will need to be entered again.

Members who joined the Forum after March 8 will need to register again. Any changes made to member profiles after March 8 will need to be made again.

Pictures lost from the Archive will need to be restored from external sources if available.

Much work needs to be done to restore lost web pages and site infrastructure. We will work on this before attempting to restore pictures from external sources.

No progress was made overnight on restoring the missing content. There appears to be a disconnect between the customer support staff and and the technical staff at our service provider. We are waiting to hear back from a manager we contacted late yesterday.

The service provider has contacted us and has escalated the problem to a high priority. There is a chance that the missing content will be restored.

We should know more tomorrow morning.