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.
