Derby Cathedral Juvies

Peculiar weather in Derby today, from a bright summersday into dense fog, rain, right into sunshine. Th ejuvies don't mind.
Juvies love water and often use heavy rain as a shower. I have often seen them enjoy themselves standing in the rain, washing and brushing themselves by moving wings and feathers. Juveniles like to baths on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day. Like children love to swim. Peregines always pick their nestsite close to water. In the Netherlands for instance most nestsites are along the 3 big rivers in our country.
The falcon and the tiercel also take a bath often. It is difficult to catch them doing that, but there are videoclips showing bathing peregrines. It's fun to watch.











The Derby falcon went out hunting during the rain because she brought a big prey back. She was real wet and plucky!! In no time there was that bed of feathers again and a hungry youngster. She left the prey to the youngsters and left.

Before the rain came, clicking through 4000 screenshots I noticed how the leftover preyitems are alive.....Lots of real big flies and other little creatures are having a real delicious meal up there. It's a mess really, my oh my, but the rain cleaned it up and washed it clean.











The day ended in one of those beautiful evenings with all those pink-blue-zaur skies. How grand our planet is in all her splendor....


Read all about the Derby Peregrines on the Derby Blog:
http://derbyperegrines.blogspot.com/

To visit the Derby Photo Blog of Jon Salloway, with amazing photo's of the Derby peregrines.:
http://derby-peregrines.blogspot.com/

De Mortel: what a day!!

This afternoon around lunchtime 2 juveniles landed on the ledge in front of the ledgecam. It was one of the tiercels and the youngest falcon. After I have been to their banding somehow I know who is who.
The tiercel left, but the sweet falcon stayed for over an hour. And my... is she beautiful. With her fluffy featherdress she looks like her wonderful mother S2, but she has the kind eyes of her father Pa.
This little falcongirl showed us her bandnumber. For some reason the WSN did not want us to know the bandnumbers of these 4 or publish it on teh internet.
The youngsters however thought different and have showed us their orange band and number.
So we have the picture complete now!

The eldest is a tiercel with DG
The second is a falcon with AF
The third is a tiercel with DF
The fourth is a falcon with AD

Check out all 466 pictures on my Picasa Web Album

De Mortel 29juni

Updated Fledge table

Columbus: Boomer en Justice fledged again

We have been enjoying Justice and her brother Boomer staying on the ledge in the past days. But they have recovered from their adventures and left this morning.
So they are healthy and strong enough. They have decided to leave so it is OK.
Boomer left first and came back to get Justice and then they left together.
So Boomer knows the way back and can make it all the way up to the 41 level. Maybe they will visit the ledge once more in the next days. Would be awesome.
Scout, happy the ledge is hers again, stayed a while and visited the nestbox.
So we have an empty ledge again. Do hope we will get updates about how the 4 fledglings are doing.

Thank to SkyGirlBlue for both video"s !

Xcell Allen S. King Plant: 38 days old

Nijmegen

X Cell Black Dog: 29 days old

Terminal Tower

Chad and Chris report that the 4 juvies are doing great. They report that they are seeing less of the juvies these days and checking in less because it's so "hit or miss" to see them as they get closer to dispersal time. It quickly became apparent that they traversed pretty far from the square not long after fledging . The 4 are strong and healthy and learning to take care after themselves. They have 2 very experienced parents in SW and Buckeye who will teach them everything they have to know to survive.
It's been a great season at TT. More pics to come tomorrow.

Thanks to Chris and Chad Saladin

Rochester

A beautiful series of Jim Pisello, featuring the legendary Mariah of Rochester, Zephyr, Quest, SusanB and Kaver.

It has been one great day for the Fledge Watchers at Rochester HQ. Reports of them make the whole day play like a movie on the inside of your eyelids. As if we all are there. Thank you all for being our eyes. Your doing a great job!!

Jill C. - Fledge Watch - June 28th (8-11AM)
June 28th, 2008

The morning started off kind of wet but when I arrived, there were so many watchers – it was awesome! A little before 8AM, Mariah arrived with some food (a pigeon) that she gave to Quest, Diamante and Zephyr on the SE ledge of floor 13. Susan B was on the ledge of building 9 (facing the parking lot) and Seneca was on the metal peak of the tower. Kaver was hanging out on the communications tower behind us but only stayed there for a short while. Seneca took off on a small flight towards the smoke stack – she went around it and then came back towards the tower trying to land on the metal peak but just couldn’t quite hit the landing…so she continued flying and ended up sticking the landing onto the 19th floor SW ball.

Quest ended up eating most of the pigeon for a good 20 minutes or so until Mariah decided to steal it off of the ledge. This got the three juvies into the air for some flying. Mariah ended up dropping the carcass near the construction site and she flew back to the tower where she landed on the SE ledge of the 17th floor. Quest figured she had enough food and stayed on the ledge of 13, Zephyr landed on the corner of the Rochester Plumbing Supply building (which was where the food had landed!) and Diamante went to the ledge of building 9 (facing State St.). A few of us walked over to find where the carcass had landed and we found it in the road. Jim P. tried to throw it up onto a rooftop for Zephyr but he took off and landed on the antennae of the old Empire Brewing Company building.

At 10:30, Diamante decided to take a quick flight and after a short walk, we found him - he had landed on a satellite dish next to his brother on the antennae.Zephyr decided to give us all a scare with some low flying - he flew down in front of the watchers and landed for a quick second on the sidewalk and then took off flying low over the street until he got up to the SW corner of building 9 and landed. Phew!

Around 9:15AM, Seneca flew off of the SW ball and went up to the playpen on the W side where she eventually made her way to the SE floodlight. We were also treated to a Great Blue Heron flying over us with a fish in its mouth – he flew off towards the gorge.

Things went quiet and we enjoyed a doggie parade around 9:40AM until Mariah quickly took chase of a crow around the High Falls parking garage. She wasn’t gone long and she rested back up on the NE ledge of 19. There was a lot of kak-ing when she returned, but no food!

At 11AM, things started picking up as Kaver dropped off some food for Susan B on the corner of building 9. Diamante and Zephyr quickly came over to steal it away. Susan B was able to get some before Diamante took it and went behind building 9 being chased by Quest. The two of them ended up on a lower building roof behind building 10.

When I left, all were accounted for! Another awesome watch!!


Read more about all the other Fledge Watch reports on the Rochester Kodak Fakcon Cam Blog Imprints:

http://www.rfalconcam.com/falconwatch/


And do visit the wonderful Blog Peregrinations of mr. Jim Pisello. Read his exciting amd amusing reports and watch his awesome photo's.

http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/06/morning-fun-for-fledglings.html