Saturday, March 14, 2009
Rochester: a new guy in town
It is March 14 now and no sign of Kaver yet. Usually he returns in the first week of March, but he has not yet been seen in the skies over Rochester. However Mariah in the meantime has a new male who is courting her. A handsome young tiercel with the impressive name:Tybropa-Cree or just plain and simple TC. He is hacked by the Canadian Peregrine Foundation in 2007.
He came from the very same hackbox in Scarborough, Ontario that Linn, Mariah and Kaver’s daughter from 2007, had been staking out last year.
For the past several days TC has been in Rochester, hanging around with Mariah and exhibiting all of the typical courtship behaviors we know from peregrine falcons including mating.
If Kaver might return I'm afraid we're in for a serious territorial battle until one of the tiercels is driven out or killed.Mariah and TC have been observed at the Kodak Tower as could have been expected. Mariah will have a very hard time to change the habit of breeding at the Kodaktower to the Powers Building.
Carol Phillips took a lot of pictures:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=171aim5l.5j7v2rxl&x=0&y=-2yxckd&localeid=en_US
Frank at the Canadian Peregrine Foundation took the pics of TC as a youngster in the hackbox.
De Mortel March 12
In the afternoon of March 12 S2 landed on the grid in front of the nestbox. She did not leave anymore. She went in, laid down in the bowl in the scrape, She stood up, went outside again.
In the early evening when the night sat in, she went in again and sat down in the bowl. It looked like she was going to lay an egg. She sat there for a long time, but no egg. Finally she stepped out on the grid and went to sleep. Very odd.
The next morning the male brought her prey on the grid which she took and flew off.
The production of an egg is a very delicate process, in which many things can go wrong.
Pittsburgh Gulftower: first egg
Louie and Tasha 2 are the parents at this site. Tasha has nested here since 1998. Louie became her mate in 2003 when he displaced her previous mate, Boris. Louie and Tasha fledged 2 chicks in 2008.
2009 Nesting Chronology
1st Egg – 12 March, ~2:30pm
The cams are livestreaming at:
http://www.aviary.org/cons/falconcam_gt.php
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