Friday, March 20, 2009
Bio Diversity Research Institute's Peregrine Falcon
Bio Diversity Research Institute's Peregrine Falcon web camera.
This camera features one of 23 Peregrine Falcon nest sites located in Maine.
The female laid her first egg today at 01:30 pm
www.briloon.org/watching-wildlife/peregrine-ca.php
I checked in and saw she was going to lay an egg, so I quickly turned on my WM recorder. This clip is the result.
De Mortel : Third Egg!
Last night at 23:45 S2 laid her third egg about 58 hours after her second. Mating has gone on until yesterday so I do expect a fourth egg. Both peregrine falcons have started brooding from today. So first hatch around April 20-21
Sussex Heights Brighton: territorial fight
Big problems in the Sussex Heights nestbox. When the cams were switched on we saw a new male with a black legband. Until now the male for 9 years was unbanded. It turned out to be a male that hatched on Chichster Cathedral in 2005. he courted the female and was accepted by her.
As it turns out the old male was found badly injured in Brighton on the 17th February and was taken to the RSPCA Animal Centre at Patcham. Its injuries suggested that it had probably been in a fight with another bird.
It was given initial first-aid and then transferred to the RSPCA Mallydams Wood Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre at Hastings on the 18th February.
Thanks to RSPCA staff the bird made an excellent recovery and the Sussex Peregrine Study (SPS) were then contacted and arranged to collect the bird from Mallydams fo ringing and release on Wednesday, 18th March. We ringed the bird at Mallydams placing a BTO metal ring (GN98025) on its left leg and a green darvic ring (34) on its right leg - these can clearly be seen on these pictures. The bird was then transported to Ditchling Beacon and released it at about 1.45pm. It flew off very strongly into the wind, calling twice and made a large circuit of the immediate area before then heading off SE.
It would seem that the old resident male pretty much flew straight from Ditchling Beacon back to his old haunt on Sussex Heights where it seems he tried to reclaim his home of the last nine or ten years, without success.
There is a clip on the website of the Sussex Heights Peregrinepage with a warning. And a good thing this warning is there, because the clip contains scenes of very extreme fysical and vocal violence between two peregrines.
But it is a very unique clip. It proves oncemore that we are dealing with raptors, with birds of prey which are very violent. They are no pets.
Watching the clip please realise this is their way of live, do not measure it by human standards, but admire them for their courage.
You can watch it here:
http://www.regencybrighton.com/birds/
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