Rochester: early morning rendez-vous

This little guy stopped by to say hello! Diamante or Zephyr, think it's Zephyr.




Wonderful to watch. I like this so much, this bonding between partners after the kids have left. Kaver and Mariah in the nestbox. This falcon and tiercel have along history together. They have fledged many juvies together since 2002. That year Mariah's partner sirocco did not return in spring. Kaver courted the beautiful Mariah and she was impressed by him.
Since then they have had succesful clutches every year. With the 5 juvies of this year Mariah had fledged 43 juvies!
Kaver always leaves in the autumn on migration. Mariah stays in Rochester to spend the winter.
When the silhouet of Kaver appears over Rochester in the early spring sky Mariah flies towards him and they start flying loops. That is even more impressive. There is a very strong bond between these 2.
This morning they met around 6:30 in their own home, their nestbox to renew their strong bond. Head-bow-low, and eechupvocalisation no doubt.
Next year again? Of course!

Derby youngster: a quiet day

Not much action of our 3 youngsters today. The weather did not look to well in the pics. No lovely sunshine to perch in, so they stayed a bit away.
The morning started at 6 with the falcon plucking prey. The youngsters where waiting in the background till mum had prepared breakfast. A bit lazy, those boys?? No why? LOL











As soon as one stepped in she was off. The youngster wanted this prey for him self. He mantled it beautifully with his wings. Nobody even dared to disturb hem, or try to get it's prey.











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

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

Columbus Ohio

Justice and Boomer stayed put on the ledge until Sunday morning. Later in the day an unidentified juvenile falcon was observed landing on the ledge and then it left again before its leg band could be read. No incidents or situations were reported over the weekend. There have been no specific reports from any of the fledglings so at this point we assume that all are doing well.

No reports on the fledglings except Boomer was again observed and confirmed via leg band codes on the nest ledge 7/1 during the early evening hours. We're still assuming that no news is good news and all the young falcons are doing well.





Columbus' big fireworks event, Red, White & Boom is on the eve of the 4th of July. What do the falcons do during the show--will it scare them, etc. By the time the fireworks are going off the falcons will be at their chosen roost for the night and the fireworks will be much the same to them as a big thunderstorm-just a lot of lightning and thunder. All of the people downtown for the event won't bother the birds - they see people and cars in the streets everyday.





On May 1 I could watch the fireworks in Rome by the Rome peregrine webcam. The falcon sat on the nestedge, while the juvies where preening. They did not move a muscle when the fireworks started. No panic, no stress, not even the slightest interest in it. So it does not bother them.

To all my American readers: Happy Fourth of July!

Nijmegen: evening fun

X- Cell Allen S.King Plant

Nijmegen

X- Cell Black Dog