Quest travels

The first six days of November yielded more good positional data on Quest. She’s still spending her time out around Monomoy Island, but we also found her at Nickerson State Park which is on the inside of the elbow of the Cape, just north of State Route 6.

The best data for the 5th and 6th place her on opposite sides of North Monomoy Island at the south end. 9:23PM on the 5th found Quest on the tidal flats on the western side of the island. Exactly six hours later she was on the east shore. Both of these positions are about 2 miles (3.3km) from the mainland. It’s possible there was some light available from the coastal buildings, but if the skies were clear she likely had the benefit of the waxing crescent Moon to help light her way.

http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/

Quest of Rochesters travels...

Photo courtesy of Rich Johnson

Our beautiful young lady of Rochester is doing just fine. She has put up camp at Cape Cod where she will probably spent the rest of the summer. It’s an attractive spot for a young Peregrine. Prey is plentiful, because of the high concentration of shorebirds. It’s also a migration route for other birds, so getting food is probably not too hard for her.The data of her transmitter is placing her there and she has been seen by eye witnesses as well.

Lyn and Bill Howard have seen her in stoop and killing a stern. So our youngster can take care of her self very well indeed. http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/?p=580#comment-10889



“Witnessed Quest on Aug 7th at 9:45am on north shore of Tuckernuck Island west of Nantucket Island and observed with binoculars, Quest gain altitude and perform a stoop. Kill obscured by land. Kayaked to sand spit and observed Quest on a Tern Kill at eye level 15 feet away. Quest flew off 70 minutes after first siting to the southeast after being dive bombed by 2 terns repeatedly and headed right for a startled Blue Heron working a tidal pond then disappeared over a bluff of land. Nothing left of kill except feathers. What an experience. Only saw a silver leg band on right foot and the transmitter wire. Any other bands might have been obscured by leg feathers-also a small red area on her breast was observed assumed where feathers had been lost [ed. note: This is most likely the transmitter harness, which is made from red neoprene material]. We look forward tracking Quest’s voyage wherever she goes… Thank you Quest for letting us be there with you…”

At the end of August Quest was seen at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Refuge by Rich Johnson. He reports:
“Three days ago I noticed a peregrine strafing [Goose Pond] here at WellfleetBay and the volunteer naturalist there (Ivan Ace) put his binocs on it and saw the antenna profile… The photos are from Aug 17…”

And he made the wonderful picture of Quest.

Read all aboout Quest and the relocation of the nestbox on Imprints:
http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/

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