Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Rochester: lazy, daisy juvies












SusanB from the window of the Kodak Building. In the background the famous bridge and the Gorge. It won't be long before the 5 juvies will move over to there to loop, dive and climb over the Gorge. Legendary images, fantatsic video's will follow of that no doubt.

These beautiful photo's where made by mr Tom Hoehn, Director, Brand Communications and New Media Kodak, Rochester, NY

Visit his entertaining website A thousand words on:
http://tomhoehn.1000words.kodak.com/

Little Seneca is still in the playpen. Jim caught her there:



From the webcam point of view it looks like this:





And this impressive youngster is of course mr Z, our Zephyr, master in flight! Look at him, he is majectic, this young tiercel!



These are Quest en her brother Zephyr having a lot of fun together. These 2 are great flyers!

After her little adventure where she had to be rescued Susan B seems a little hesitant to fly again. She only makes very short flights, but not any substantial flying. She seems to feel a bit insecure. Mariah and kaver are working on Susan B by flying loops near her.
Quest becomes more and more an strong flyer, she really enjoys herself together with Zephyr, who is the star. He even tried to follow Kaver when he took off hunting. Mr. Z was flying loops, dives and climbs around his father, but came back. Just before Kaver left he was flying loops with his Mariah.
Seneca is still in the playpen. Mariah guards over her and brings her enough food. She needs a bit more wingflapping before she will fledge.
One of the watchers actually saw how Mariah really is the boss and does corral a juvenile to the tower. Diamante is Ok, but has not participated in actions, he is taking it easy.

Read the complete reports:
http://www.rfalconcam.com/falconwatch/

And for the actual report of mr. Jim Pisello and beautiful pics of the fledglings visit his Blog Peregrinations:
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/06/fledglings-spend-day-slacking.html

Derby Peregrines: a quiet day










A quiet begin and this would set the day. We have not seen very much of the peregrines. How different was it yesterday.
Today the eyases where everywhere except in front of the webcam.











Hours past without a peregrine in sight. And if one appeared it was in the nestbox. There was a big preyitem left which was eaten. Again the 2 juvies that are always together appeared: together of course.
In the evening the tiercel enjoyed himself in scraping a bowl, a daily routine.
So a day "sans histoire"











Read all about the Derby Peregrines on the Derby Blog:
http://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/




A great videoclip by Jon Solloway of the falcon and a youngster!


To visit the Derby Photo Blog of Jon Salloway, with amazing photo's of the Derby peregrines.:
http://derby-peregrines.blogspot.com/

De Mortel
















Columbus Ohio: 3 have fledged










After Mystic (S73) had fledged on sunday june 22, Columbus (C65) and Justice (S47) fledged early this morning. Only Boomer (C66)left on the ledge.
Reports are coming in: one of the juvies, possibly Mystic has been seen sitting on top of one of the high officebuildings next to the Rhodestower.
I will keep posting updates about the fledglings!




b/g) S47 Justice (female)
b/g S73 Mistic (female)
b/g C65 Columbus (male)
b/g C66 Boomer (male)
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Egg-Hatch-Fledge Table

Xcell Alan S. King Plant













Nijmegen







XCell Black Dog: 24 days old
















Yesterday on a few photo's banders where seen. And indeed the eyases have been banded. I do not know yet about gender en bandnrs, but as soon I do I will post it here.
On teh pic the bander wanted to grab one of the eyases we could see how the youngster was going to lay it's back and sticking its sharp talons out. This is typical defebse behaviour. It is always seen in airbattles. And of course in the games the juvies play when fledged.