Rochester: cams will close on monday

The last images from the webcams 2008. They will close down tomorrow. After a wonderful 2008 nesting season all five of this year’s eyases– Seneca, Diamante, Quest, Zephyr and Susan B– have take to the skies of Rochester and fledge successfully. Since the falcons have largely left the nest box, and the project is preparing to transition the camera equipment and nest box, the Rochester Falconcam’s cameras will shut down on Monday, July 7th. But Impints will continue to bring information from the on-scene volunteer watchers at the FalconWatch Blog throughout the summer.
The Falconcam site will remain active throughout the year so that news of Quest’s travels via her solar-powered backpack transmitter can be brought. The Kodak Rochester team has been informed by the satellite monitoring agency that her signals are being received, and the website is being prepared so that can been showed where she goes. Posting updates for Quest will start in a few weeks, as soon as she leaves the area.

All on Imprints:

http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/

Thanks to the Rochester Kodak Falconcam Team for a fabulous season. Many many people all over the world have been enjoying the beautiful images from the 5 webcams!

Of course I will continue posting updates and pictures of the 5 juvies!

Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project

Not much action today. The weather was bad and the youngsters did not show themselves very much. Neither on teh pud nor the nestbox











So it was not until late in the afternoon before one of the parents landed with a big pigeon an started plucking. The prey wa sleft for a hungry youngster.










And so the afternoon became the evening and made this gay glide away. Hope tomorrow the sun will appear again, because with it the youngsters will!
They still need the parents to hunt for them.
The first Derby juvenile fledged on June 11, so it is only 4 weeks. They do have to learn a lot and will stay at least for another 4 weeks around the cathedral. Most juveniles wander off between 8-12 weeks after fledging. So there still will be a lot to watch!


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

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X Cell Black Dog: 36 days old

Rochester

Jill reports:


It was quiet for a bit until Seneca decided to stoop a duck. It was so quick that I don’t think any of us caught it on camera, but we saw her fly down towards the water and we heard a splash. We realized that it was the duck hitting the water and Seneca flew back upwards - no duck for her! She flew back around towards the falls and actually stooped down on a gull as well! After that excitement, she landed in one of the tree branches on the side of the gorge for a little rest.

A few of us that were watching from the observation deck were lucky enough to have some great views of Quest flying right in front of us. At one point she almost landed on ‘Pride Rock’ but decided against it, kak-ing all the way - almost as if she was yelling at us!

This again initiated some more ‘Talon Tag’ by Quest and an unknown sibling. After the ‘Talon Tag’, one of the fledglings, maybe Seneca again, decided to try for some food and chased a a pigeon in front of the falls. He/she was right on the pigeon’s tail - not wanting to give up, but did so after a long chase and landed on the guard rail of the train track.

It was time to go, but before I left, I got a shot of Diamante preening and sunning himself…

Go to Peregrinations to read the fledge watch report of Jim pisello and watch the wonderful pictures.

http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/07/shunning-gorge-fledglings-keep-flying.html

And visit Imprints for more Fledge Watch reports

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

Derby: rain or shine

A very early morning, stil dark. The light brough fog and breakfast. At least prey was plucked and next it will hav ebeen served somewhere else.
After breakfast the youngster took a shower. A natural one. The rain was pooring down, and they sure had a lot of fun. Shaking their feathers, sliding and slipping. And all wet they grabbed a bite in the rain. Those youngster they are so funny sometimes. How they love water!











Rest of the day was a mixture of sunshine, rain and really lots of prey. Falcon and tiercel kept coming in with fresh prey. These youngsters have been born in the best nest they could ever have wished for! The territory is very rich of food, high perchplace, a beautiful nestbox and strong healthy parents.











And again 2 prey items right after eachother. One youngster got hungry and grabbed a piece. A quiet day all together.











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: an intruder

Early this morning all of a sudden a strange young falcon appeared in front of the ledge cam. No S2 around apparently because otherwise this would have been totally impossible. The tiercel however was present on the ledge. So this intruding female started ee-chupping to him.
It's kinda funny how our tiercel is such an attractive male that females from 100 of miles around try to bond with him.
But S2, she fought her battle for him last year. She is there to stay.
She must have been out hunting, when this female landed on the ledge.
S2 is very territorial as all falcons are.
Th eintruding female had just one silver legband on her right leg.

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