Ford Wayne and Rochester

Pic by Jim Pisello


As it turns out Mariah and Kaver of Rochester and Freedom and Roosevelt of Fort Wayne have more in common then we think. A pair of Peregrine falcons have been nesting at the Toledo Edison’s Bay Shore power plant in Oregon, Ohio. The male, Swifty, was hatched in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His mate is Millie hatched in 2005 at an industrial facility in Port Colborne, Ontario Canada. Millie is the daughter of Freedom and Purity, and Freedom is the son of Mariah and Kaver!



Pic by Jim Pisello


Freedom, a male peregrine falcon was hatched at Kodak's world headquaters in Rochester, NY in 2002. Today he lives at an industrial facility in Canada on the northern shores of Lake Erie with his mate Purity.

In the summer of 2005 members of the Kodak Falconcam and Genesee Valley Audubon Society took a trip to Port Colborne to visit Freedom and Purity with their offspring Millie and Ellie.



Pic by Jim Pisello

Jim Pisello made some amazing pictures of Freedom. It is striking to see how much Freedom inherited a perfect blending of looks from both his parents. He has Kaver's snowy breast, dark, full hood and malar stripes, but also Mariah's characteristic white supracereal stripe (the one above her bill between her eyes). He also has Mariah's voice, and something of her personality.


Watch this videoclip by Jim Pisello

http://www.marchlords.com/videos/05-0628/100_7810.mov

AEP Fort Wayne Indiana

Zurich

De Mortel

The snow is gone, and the ice as well. It has been really cold in the Netherlands the past weeks. It is still just 4C, but nature knows very well spring is just a few weeks away. Birds are appearing from their hidingplaces everywhere. And singing their songs in the morning. I saw a buzzard this afternoon eating a tasty prey. Last week he was sitting very sadly in the freezing landscape feeling sorry for himself. ( I did so too for him)

Our peregrine falcons in De Mortel are visiting the nestbox more frequently these days, and are inspecting their new nursery. S2 took a look and Pa as well.

Derby Cathedral peregrines

Some digging was going on here!

Eemsmond

A lonely visitor.

But they are still together and never left the place.

So we do hope this season will be more succesfull then the last one.