De Mortel: Pa preening

What Zenmasters they are, our peregrine falcons. The way they seem to achieve states of deep relaxation and meditation when they perch. They sit for hours and hours just on their perchplace looking into endless depths of wisdom.
Watching a peregrine like that makes you wonder.....

Our Pa was sitting in the entrance of the nestbox for 2 hours, just watching the clouds go by, doing nothing. Then he started preening, a bit of preening oil here, a bit of manicure there and back to the meditative state. Wonderful creatures they are, peregrine falcons.

Derby: taking a shower

Great pics today of the Derby Falcon taking advantage of the rain taking a shower! Look at the way she shakes her feathers and having a big scrub!

Frodocam: back home

Watch Frodocam here:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/frodocam/default.htm

Frodocam: an early visitor

Frodocam

Buckeye of Hilliard

Chris and Chad Saladin make wonderful, amazing and awesome photographs of the peregrine falcons of Ohio. This is one of the legendary Buckeye of Hilliard. A tiercel with a great personality, who loved to drink water, loved to take a bath, mated with his partner all year long and enjoyed life to the fullest. Buckeye deceased in 2006, but his spirit is still with us. What a beautiful peregrine falcon he was. Rocky a tiercel from his last offspring in 2006 is now the resident male at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park nestsite!

Quest of Rochester

Our beautiful young falconlady is having a great time. And she is doing just fine.

Quest is still at the Massachusettsshore and does not seem to have any plans to move.

She spent the past week exploring State Route #6 on Cape Cod, where she is presumably dining on tasty shorebirds. She seems to be an excellent hunter and no signs of hunger what so ever. Good for her!

Our Quest was seen and photographed by Shawn Carey, a professional wildlife photographer and a member of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. On August 17th Shawn Carey was photographing at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on the cape, when he came across our Quest! Shawn took some fantastic photos of Quest:

Watch them here, they are amazing!

http://shawncarey.zenfolio.com/p971267549/?photo=h02FC1E9F#50077343



August 22


Quest continued her eastward trek reaching the Massachusetts coast in the first week of August. She was visiting tony Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod. Data indicate that she’s having a great time exploring the far eastern reaches of the US. Most of Mariah’s offspring whose locations are known– and all that previously had transmitters– went north or west. So Quest’s eastern movement is an unexpected surprise.

Read more on Imprints:
http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/

Frdodcam: a quick visit and off you go