Just a place for all my favourite raptor images, and stories. Will include peregrin falcons during this years season.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Large Birds Catching Fish
thanks to Paul,, at KFalcon cam,,
http://www.miguellasa.com/photos/sspopup.mg?AlbumID=1001578
Aurora in Fight with another female
here is the web link to the live cam
http://www.ag-wanderfalken.de/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=78
and here is Annette's album of the territorial fight in the next box,,
Hopefully both females are ok, and did not inflict serious damage on each other,,
(Aurora has the blue bands)
http://www.kodakgallery.de/ShareLanding.action?c=bozg71ut.3bjjywgbd&x=0&y=rh2rp4&localeid=de_DE
CPF Index of Falcon Cams
http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/links/Peregrinelinks.html
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
New Tiercel for Mariah??? (fingers crossed)
Awesome pics,, thanks to Joyce,,
what a beautiful Tiercel he is,, we are trying to get a band ID on this guy,,,
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=tq6stye.70aczjrq&x=0&y=fbvhee&localeid=en_US
Monday, March 23, 2009
LOL, Mariah made the news in Rochester
http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Kodak-Falcon-Confused-Wheres-Favorite-Nesting/TBD-9OrrhU2RGsGpnaHBbw.cspx
4 Peregrin Eyas, Getting Fed
Video was shot,, June 6, 2007
Four peregrine falcon chicks feeding in their nest on top of the Mayo Clinic's Guggenheim Building in Rochester, MN
Mariah, has a new Suitor???
Mariah & the new banded Tiercel at Midtown Plaza - 3/22/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIyFVnwJvys
And here is Jim's blog and more pics of this "new guy",,
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2009/03/mariahs-neuveau-beau.html
I sure hope, these 2 pair off, and find one of the new scrapes. (there are 2)
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Bird Cams Around the World
GREAT BOARD!!!
http://www.hostingphpbb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=939&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&mforum=peregrinefalcon
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Peregrin Cam in Rome Italy
Main site,,
http://www.birdcam.it/index.php
This pair,, is Aria and Venta,, they are in egg incubation mode.
http://www.birdcam.it/cam.php?camid=1&subpage=cam01.php
More Heartbreak in Rochester
The Tiercel Tybropa-Cree, who was seen mating with "our Queen" about a week ago, and then went missing, has been found dead.
Hit by a car and found beside a busy road.
Just so sad,, I have cried a bucket of tears for Mariah, I doubt we will have EYAS from this beautiful Peregrine this year.
Update at Imprints,,,
http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Bummer in Rochester
Kaver has not returned,, and since Kodak forced the removal of
their nest box,, that they have raised Eyas in for 11 years,,
it doesn't look good for Mariah raising a clutch of kids this year.
Here is a slide show,, of Mariah,, trying to break through the
netting Kodak, put up, to keep her away from where her
scrape was.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=tq6stye.8b4hxlp2&x=0&y=2xhkln&localeid=en_US
This situation is similar to Pale Male and Lola,, in New York City,
the building removed their nest,, then after we all protested
re-installed the nest,, but now 5 years later,, Pale Male and Lola,
have not laid another clutch of eggs.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
DEC NY Peregrine Webcam Listing
DEC NY Webcam listing Buffalo, Albany, and Poughkeepsie.
http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7050.html
Friday, March 13, 2009
Rochester Falcon Cam - Mariah and Tybropa-Cree???
http://shakymon.com/rfc-archive.html
This is Mariah's original nest box, that was at the Kodak tower.
Kaver has not come back from migration, and is overdue now.
There is a new Tiercel in Mariah's life though, his name is
Tyrobropa-Cree. And he is a Canadian Tiercel from Scarborough
Ontario,,
and here he is,,
Full update for the Rochester situation at Imprints,, on the
Rochester Falconcam Home website,, for March 12,,
http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/
The main cam view,,,
http://rfalconcam.com/rfc-main/mainView.php
And the 3 cam view,,
http://rfalconcam.com/rfc-main/multiView.php
There is a second nest box,, cams on that scrape will come online soon.
Red Tail Hawk Nest
Two Red-tailed Hawks have built a nest on a window ledge at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The nest sits just outside a window where a camera has been positioned to create this video stream. The camera looks through the glass window pane which is 24 inches wide (~61 cm). No artificial lighting has been added, so the nest is only visible during daylight hours.
http://www2.fi.edu/hawknest.php
LIVE Red Tail Hawk Cam
on Sunday, March 8 Kay laid an egg in the nest, beginning a second year of non-stop nest watching by our dedicated forumers from around the country! Already, Jay has taken some turns at brooding while giving Kay a chance to hunt. We don't know yet if she will lay additional eggs; Redtailed hawks often lay two or three eggs per season. This year, nesting activity began early in January as Kay and Jay began preparations for another brood. Click the links on the right to learn much more!
This is a excellent cam,, very close up,, of this nest!
http://www.kjrh.com/content/news/hawks/default.aspx
Thursday, March 12, 2009
These photos were taken on Lakelse Lake just outside of Terrace, B.C., by the Water Lily Bay Resort.
Eagles are very common in this area. They also feed the swans on the lake all the time
These are amazing photos.Enjoy! Swan and Eagle pictures.
What a beautiful Swan, so Graceful and Majestic.
Here comes the Eagle!!!
You can see the trail of loose feathers flying here from the swan.
This one is so amazing to see the actual eagle wing span beside the swan.This eagle has put on the brakes to slow the swan down.
The poor swan must be scared to death.It is attempting to actually escape death in the air.
The eagle is loosing his grip on the swan in this picture
The swan has fully extended it's wings for more power. Look at that swan's wing span, amazing!!!! Now the eagle is losing his grip on the swan completely.
At this point the swan starts falling straight down.The swan keeps it wings fully extended and floatsdown backwards, always watching the eagle above.
The swan falls into the water below, and swims away and the eagle just looks on at his 'lost' prey.
These are super amazing pictures because I have NEVER seen an eagle attack something so big in mid-air before.
I hope you enjoyed these pictures as much as i did.
Head On Collision Between 2 Bald Eagles
A friend sent me this,, and it was just so cool, I decided to start a new blog, LOL
AERIAL COMBAT OVER LAKE TAPPS , WASHINGTON
Here's a once-in-a-lifetime event captured on film...
The fellow sitting on the tailgate of his pickup truck never realized the show he was missing.
(620 mm effective Focal Length)
The little duck watches as the Eagle speeds straight at him at about 40 mph.
(760 mm effective Focal Length)
With perfect timing, the duck always dove and escaped with a mighty splash! Then he'd pop to the surface as soon as
the Eagle flew past. This was repeated over and over for several minutes. I worried the poor duck would tire and that
would be the end of him.
(1,040 mm effective Focal Length)
A second Eagle joins the attack! The duck kept diving "just in time", so the Eagles began to dive into the water after him!
(1,150 mm effective Focal Length)
After several minutes the Eagles got frustrated and began to attack each other. They soon began to dive vertically,
level out, and attack head-on in a good old-fashioned game of high-speed "Chicken". Sometimes they banked away
from each other at the last possible second. Other times they'd climb vertically and tear into each other while falling
back toward the water. (The duck catches his breath at the right side of this picture.)
(900 mm effective Focal Length)
A terrible miscalculation! The luckiest shot of my life catches this 100 mph head-on collision between two Bald Eagles.
(1,320 mm effective Focal Length)
One Eagle stayed aloft and flew away, but the other lies motionless in a crumpled heap.
The lucky duck survived to live another day.
(486 mm effective Focal Length)
It's sad to watch an Eagle drown. He wiggled, flapped and struggled mostly underwater. He finally got his head
above water and with great difficulty managed to get airborne.. To my astonishment, he flew straight toward me,
and it was the most wretched and unstable bird flight I've ever seen!
(620 mm effective Focal Length)
The bedraggled Eagle circled me once - then lit atop a nearby fir tree. He had a six-foot wingspread and looked mighty angry.
I was concerned that I might be his next target, but he was so exhausted he just stared at me. Then I wondered if he would topple to the ground. As he tried to dry his feathers, it seemed to me that this beleaguered Eagle symbolized America in its current trials.
(1,200 mm effective Focal Length)
My half-hour wait was rewarded with this marvelous sight. He flew away, almost good as new. May America recover as well.
(1,400 mm effective Focal Length)
Moral of the story: DUCK!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
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- CPF Index of Falcon Cams
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- Mariah, has a new Suitor???
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- More Heartbreak in Rochester
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