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A lack of good signals from Quest’s transmitter have stretched out our latest round of locations, but it seems that there’s no need to worry. As we have seen for the past several weeks she’s staying put in the Wesleyville-Port Hope area. There are no real surprises in the data, though an odd coincidence placed two consecutive daily readings in exactly the same spot on the 25^th and 26^th. Quest got back to moving around soon enough though, so she seems to be doing fine.

We sent a note off to our friends at the Canadian Peregrine Foundation to see if the old hack box at the Wesleyville power station is still in place. We haven’t received a reply yet, but they’re busy folks up there and I’m sure we’ll hear back as soon as Mark Nash has a few minutes to catch up on his email! Until then Quest is staying in her groove so we’re content that all appears to be well.

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Quest continues her stay on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Her movements indicate a growing familiarity with the area, and unless something changes, it seems like she’ll be staying put for the summer. You keep up with her daily movements at our Quest’s Week map page!

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Quest seems happy to stay on the coast near Port Hope, due north across Lake Ontario from Lyndonville, New York (Rochester area birders will recognize Lyndonville as the place where a Northern Hawk Owl made an appearance a few years ago). She continues to roam along a 10 mile (16km) stretch of southern Ontario province from Port Granby to Port Hope, with much of her activity centered on an unused power plant in Wesleyville. A smokestack there provides an unequaled view of the surroundings and doubtless makes an excellent hunting perch for her. On July 6 she visited a residential street in Port Hope, but for the most part she continues to enjoy life on the north shore of Lake Ontario. We’d love to hear any reports from local birders about how Quest is doing, so if anyone from the Wesleyville & Port Hope areas is reading this, let us know!

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Not much to report for Quest this week. She continued to stay close to the coast of Lake Ontario in a five-mile swath from Port Granby to Port Britain. She appears to be comfortable there, with quite a few location readings near what looks like an industrial plant of some kind that includes a tall smokestack which she’s probably using for a perch (thanks to reader Ei for pointing it out to us!).

We heard from our friend Mark Nash at the Canadian Peregrine Foundation, where a Quest sighting was recorded on June 8. Mark writes:

Just received some interesting news from Bill and Elizabeth who spotted a [Peregrine] in Wesleyville yesterday equipped with a satellite transmitter. It must be Quest from Rochester N.Y. I just happen to know something about this wayward Pefa, as I was down in Rochester N.Y. just about this time last year deploying this satellite transmitter on this young peregrine with Mike [Allen] from the New York D.E.C.

No pictures I’m afraid, but it’s good to know that she’s being observed on occasion.

Remember, you can follow Quest’s daily movements at our Quest’s Week map page!

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Quest continues to enjoy her stay in Port Hope, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, about 45 miles (80km) east of Toronto, Canada. For the most part she’s been staying near the MacDonald-Cartier Freeway which is also known as the Highway of Heroes. Satellite imagery shows lots of woodland and agricultural fields. No doubt she’s finding plenty of food there, but she’s also been spending time hunting over the lake and at nearby Kendal Park. Remember, you can see where Quest has been over the last seven days at our Quest’s Week page, updated daily!

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The DEC’s Mike Allen sent along another picture of Mariah’s release, taken by a colleague of his at the moment she left her carrier. Mike said she used the lip of the carrier to launch herself skyward. Apparently she did it without a moment’s hesitation– she’s a blur of motion in the picture!

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Quest seems to have found a preferred location in Port Hope, a few miles west of Cobourg, Ontario. She continued her late May stay there until June 2nd when she flew to a rural area 15 miles west of Kingston, Ontario. She spent 2 days there before returning to Port Hope.

This is a rural area covered with woodlands and agricultural fields on the lake shore that seems to have little in the way of tall buildings or other structures from which Quest could hunt. It’s likely that she’s dining on shorebirds or perhaps some smaller arboreal birds.

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By the way, we’re trying something new. Beginning today we’re publishing a new map that will always show Quest’s movements for the last seven days. Each day we’ll update the map with the most recent information that we have. That way you can follow her travels on a daily basis.

You can find Quest’s one-week rolling map by clicking here or selecting it from the list of pages at the upper right side of this page.

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As we wait for more news about Mariah’s return to Rochester, we thought this would be a good time to catch up on Quest’s travels. As you can see, she’s still visiting our friends to the north.

Please be sure to keep checking the Falcon Watch section for more news on what’s happening here in Rochester, NY.

Jess

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Sorry for the hold-up on Quest Reports.

She’s really been on the move and she seems to like the north side of Lake Ontario. She definitely likes staying close to water, crossing the US/Canadian border multiple times. As our friend Mark Nash from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation says, Peregrines know no borders.

Jess

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Quest showed complete disdain for citizenship and international borders over the past week or so as she hopped back and forth between Canada and the US. She spent the evening of the 1^st and the following morning in the small town of Wilson New York– coincidentally the home town of Falconcam team member Jim Pisello– before zipping over to Port Bruce, Ontario as she continued her westward trek.

On the fourth she was 185 miles (300 km) to the southwest in Napoleon, Ohio. Then, the boomerang part. She went back east, spending two days near Locust Point, a few miles east of Toledo, Ohio. On the 7^th she went northeast to Guelph, Ontario, about 45 miles (70 km) west of Toronto. Her most recent moves were north to the edge of Nottawasaga Bay, where she has spent the past couple of days.

It looks like Quest is restless, and she’s really taking the time to explore. Her activity is a good sign, and the fact that she’s moving long distances– sometimes hundreds of miles in a day– indicates that she’s fit and healthy. Keep watching along with us to see where she goes next!

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Intermittent problems with our email system have kept us from getting updates from Quest’s transmitter. So you can imagine our surprise when we started looking at the data earlier today and found that she left Cape Cod around April 27!

On seeing her location in Vermont, the first thing we did was to double-check the data. Sure enough, she’s was moving west. Our next thought was that she might be making a day trip. She’d done that in the past after all. We received no useful data for the 28^th, but the next day found her near Ausable Forks in New York’s vast Adirondack State Park. Then, the big leap, traveling over 300 miles (500 km) into Canada, where she was tracked near Allison, Ontario, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Toronto!

So it looks like she’s decided seven months in New England was enough. We’ll keep a close watch on her. Now that she’s on the move, she could end up anywhere!