Rochester: 5 mobile eyases

Oberhausen: 2 left

Spending the night together, but only 2 instead of 3. Where is the little male? Is he allright. Where has he spent the night. So many juvi's have a very bad first fledge.

The 2 females are standing on the ledge training their wings. It takes them much longer to get ready for first flight. They have more growing to do than a male peregrine juvi. A juvi fledges when the time is right. They know for themselves when teh flight feathers have grown enough to make a first flight possible. The flight feathers are not fully grown when they do.

Later that day the little male would make a spectacular appearence flying in on the ledge and proved he's an excellent flyer indeed.

Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project:

The eyases are 10 days old already. How time flies. They are covered now in their second down. The remiges and retrices have started energing. You can see that in teh 2 eldest eyases. The pagatium is growing and turning the arm into a wing.
The eyases are now able to regulate their body temperaturen. However they will still try to make the 4 as one body, and will keep on doing that. By sticking close together with their bellies touching they can exchange bodyheat. This makes it much easier to remain the own body at the right temperature.
They are very sweet chicklets, with the little own catching up on his siblings. It is fun to watch these 4 cuties!

Rome eyases: 34 days old

Brighton Sussex Heights: 16 days old

Terminal Tower Cleveland: banding day

Ohio Division of Wildlife biologists have banded the four eyases this morning, Tuesday May 13. The drawbridge was brought up to prevent the eyases from getting to close to the edge of the ledge. The eyases where brought into the Greenbriar Suite and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service bands have been attached to their legs. The bands have unique identifying numbers and codes so that the individual falcons can be identified in the future. A blood sample will be drawn for genetic analysis. The youngsters have then been returned to the nest unharmed.

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Buckeye and S/W where at the ledge trying to see what was going on with their young. Within a hour or so after the banding everything returned to normal on the 12th floor of the Terminal Tower. The eyases will be able to be identified for the rest of their lives. It is through these bands that we know that Onyx, who fledged from the Terminal Tower in 2006, now has a mate and is nesting at the Tower east building in Shaker Heights.



Band numbers and names
Two males, two females.
Here are the names and band numbers:

S/20 - "Spirit" - female

S/21 - "Tiki" - female

B/60 - "Tiger" - male

B/71 - "Thriller" - male

Zwolle: 18 days old

James River Bridge: 34 days old

Our 3 little Virgina chicklets are 34 days old today. We can see how there is a size difference between them. By the looks of it, 1 male and 2 females. They are getting browner by the day.

Ohio Columbus: first hatch

Columbus officially has a hatch! One of the first looks was had of a small, white, fluffy chick at 6:15 a.m. It's hard to tell for sure when during the overnight hours the chick actually hatched. So far everything looks good at the nest. Scout has been doing a really great job brooding the chick while continuing to incubate the remaining eggs. (The bad part about her doing such a good job is we haven't had much opportunity to see the chick!) She has also brought in food but hasn't fed the chick yet, even with going through the motions. At one point I watched her bring in a plucked bird and vocalize to the chick which stimulated the chick to sit up and open its mouth. The only problem is Scout never leaned over close enough to the chick to actually feed it!

While this lack of feeding might concern some, keep in mind that even after hatching a chick has the remains of the yolk sac within its body to continue to nourish it for at least a day or two.

Oberhausen

Toronto Sheraton: Rhea Mae

Photo by Linda Woods/Canadian Peregrine Foundation


The 2006 daughter of Kaver and Mariah of Rochester is now the mother of 4 eyases. And that is wonderful news.

Linda Woods of the Canadian Peregrine Foundation reports that Rhea Mae’s fourth egg hatched May 12. It was a few days behind the other 3, which hatched before the weekend. There was some speculation that the fourth egg may not have been viable– a normal occurence with new Falcon mothers. But all 4 eggs did hatch.

From Imprints:
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Rochester: 5 days old

The eyases are growing fast. They even started wandering about a bit yesterday. Kaver got them all together again. The Rochester eyases always are a clever little bunch. Mariah is keeping an eye on things from the ledge. The wheather is very mild in Rochester so they do not need covering all day. But they do need food. A lot of food. Every 2 hours would be very nice. Kaver is hunting and providing for his family. As he has been doing for many years. There have been seen some spectacular food transfers between Kaver and mariah when he is handing her over food for the kids. They are doing very fine.

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Woodman: rescue

These are the latest messages about the Woodman nestsite.

May 8, 2008
The female falcon, Hera, is believed to be injured and recuperating at Raptor Recovery Nebraska, Inc., following a May 5 encounter with another falcon that was presumably killed. All is “presumed,” as the two unbanded females are virtually indistinguishable. The injured falcon was left with bruises, stitches and scuffed feet.

For a few days Zeus tried to keep the hatchling warm and alive. He did bring prey but could not manage. he stopped brooding teh 2 hatchlings and the 3 eggs.

May 12, 2008
The two falcon eyas, who hatched last week, and the three remaining eggs were removed from the nest today after Zeus stopped sitting on the nest.

The biologists have removed the 2 hatchlings and the eggs. The 2 eyases will be fed and probably be hacked. The 3 eggs have to be examine dif the embryo's are still alive. If so they will be incubated until hatch.

Zurich: juvenile plumage

Haven't seen them yesterday because the stream was not available. And how they've changed in one day. Every year it's amazing how fast this transformation goes. These 2 are almost completely in their juvenile plumage.They have some white left on the back and under their wings. They are very beautiful these 2.

De Mortel:

The 4 eyases in De Mortel are very healthy looking indeed. They get plenty of food. S2 keeps on feeding them all day long, till they are stuffed. Look at them, how fat they are.

Oberhausen: male is back:

What a big annd wonderful surprise: the little male fledgeling suddenly appeared back on the platform. Begging for food no doubt, when the female was landing here around 8 in the evening. he was putting up quite a spectacel this little guy. And what a great flyer he is. He did come back all the way up to the nestbox. .
He stayed for a while and left, and came back. All three together for the night again.

New Yersey: doing fine

Thigs are looking real good overhere. After all the drama of the past days, this eyas is brooded very well. And his sibling is doing fine as well. So maybe after all we will have here 2 healthy fledgelings in a few weeks time.

Cobb Island: mobile eyases

This Cobb-cutie has gone exploring the outside world. Sitting on teh ledge in the mild sunshine. Way to go girl!

Derby Cathedral Peregrine project