Re: ALCOA FALCONS: March-October, 2010

PruJoy · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:47 pm

SusanE wrote:

ljames, you have given me an idea. I think I'll contact the newspaper where the article appeared and ask them to forward an email to the lady inviting her to join us here.

Pru, in case you missed the article which kittenface posted in the IN THE NEWS section, here it is:

thanx SusanE - no I hadn't heard about that at all so I'll go read about it now ...

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:43 pm

PruJoy wrote:

SusanE wrote:

ljames, you have given me an idea. I think I'll contact the newspaper where the article appeared and ask them to forward an email to the lady inviting her to join us here.

Pru, in case you missed the article which kittenface posted in the IN THE NEWS section, here it is:

thanx SusanE - no I hadn't heard about that at all so I'll go read about it now ...

Sorry everyone I completely forgot to post it here :duh:

PruJoy · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:59 pm

I wonder if that lady realizes just how much poop is going to be covering the plants in that window box by the end of the season!!! :crazysun:

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:03 pm

PruJoy wrote:

I wonder if that lady realizes just how much poop is going to be covering the plants in that window box by the end of the season!!! :crazysun:

Oh my goodness your right. but I'd take all the poop in the falcon
world (well some anyway) :lol:

if I could have something like that in my back yard

PruJoy · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:09 pm

Yes - just how amazing to be that close to the actual nest!

And, oh yes, I should explain that the "Sunshine Coast" does include Brisbane but it extends quite a few hours drive north as well so without knowing the name of the town she lives in I can't really pin it down any more than that.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 60564

SusanE wrote:

ljames, you have given me an idea. I think I'll contact the newspaper where the article appeared and ask them to forward an email to the lady inviting her to join us here.

Pru, in case you missed the article which kittenface posted in the IN THE NEWS section, here it is:

Thanks for reposting this, Susan...I totally missed it!!! How exciting for her...and I agree...let's talk her into joining AND installing a cam!!! Hey, let's remember to tell her if the falcons like it there, they'll be nesting there again next year!!!

(I am sooooooooooo jealous!!!)

Antilogical · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:52 am

There is a new update on the Alcoa website for Wednesday August 25, 2010. Apparently, Sheila has been replaced by an unbanded female. :-(

http://www.alcoa.com/australia/en/info_ ... webcam.asp

PruJoy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:03 am

O0hhhh dear - there is the new female right in the middle of what looks like all of Alcoa's plant area - dang, dang, dang!!! so much for all their fancy pink box constructions ....

Can't work out the new photobucket instant upload app ... but I am sure you can get it ...

Beth · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:46 am

No Sheila, this is very sad. She was a very good mommy....

It is isn't Sheila this year then they should put back the box,
maybe the new lady isn't as aggressive - AND that was the point
of moving the box.

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:05 am

We all knew that there was a new female there at the end of the season, but hoped that Sheila was still around and ok somehow. Poor little Sheila. :cry:

Well at least she is not the one having to endure these changes to her nest site. You're right Beth, if it's not Sheila, let's put the nest back where it belongs. I wish Havoc and the new female well.

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:26 am

ljames wrote:

We all knew that there was a new female there at the end of the season, but hoped that Sheila was still around and ok somehow. Poor little Sheila. :cry:

Well at least she is not the one having to endure these changes to her nest site. You're right Beth, if it's not Sheila, let's put the nest back where it belongs. I wish Havoc and the new female well.

I agree about putting the box back, but its probably too late anyway! Why would they do that when they were informed that there was concern about a new female replacing Sheila since Sheila was the reason they did this? Somebody clearly wasn't making good decisions. :angrysun:

I hope Sheila moved on, found a new mate, & is nesting somewhere else!

SusanE · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:35 am

Sad, sad, sad . . . all the news coming from Alcoa . . . :cryinggirl:

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:53 pm

I just checked my e-mail and realized that I had a message from Alcoa.

Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:59 PM
From: Jeffery, Elise <Elise.Jeffery@alcoa.com.au>
To: ljames
Subject: RE: Alcoa.com contact email
Size: 7 KB

dear lyn,

i remembered your email from last year and thought you should be the first to
know.
i have just confirmed that the female at Alcoa Anglesea this year is not Sheila
and is an unbanded female.
i'll post an update to http://www.alcoa.com/falcons soon but thought you would like to
know.
do you have any photos from the nest box last year with this female present?

thank you for watching last year.
your information is an important piece of the puzzle.

Peregrine Falcon Webcam
Anglesea Power Station

Alcoa of Australia

t +61 3 5263 4270 f +61 3 5263 4203 m +61 (0) 404 800 345

Coalmine Road/ Camp Road, Anglesea, Victoria 3230
http://www.alcoa.com.au
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I sent her a few photos, but I did not have the best ones. I told her that I would ask the forum members to send her some pictures too. I think that Pearl1 had one of the first pictures and probably the best, but I didn't look back through all of the posts. Thanks.

kittenface · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:50 pm

This just isn't fair :cry:

just had to put up a picture
we can always hope that she is the falcon in the ladies backyard

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:15 pm

Ljames, thanks for sharing your email from Alcoa with us. If you need a picture to send them, I found a good one here:

There is also a picture of her & Havoc bonding further down on the page.

If Alcoa would have gotten the cam "unstuck" back in February, they would have known that Sheila was no longer the resident female, because we could have confirmed it in our emails to them. Once again, cam viewers weren't given credit for being tuned in to a falcon pair. Well, maybe they will learn!

PattiO · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:07 pm

Noooooooo I want Sheila back!!!!!! :( :(

Close-up of new female.

ljames · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:37 pm

I know PattiO, but Sheila has been gone since February. So the new female and Havoc are mates now. I wonder what happened to Sheila. It seems like back then, we were not seeing the juvies at the nest as we had in the past year. And we didn't see the adults for a little while there if I remember correctly. And then, the new female. It's hard to imagine that Sheila just decided to move one, after being there so long. No, something happened to her and it's hard to think that the new female battled with her, because I think, at the time, we thought that she might be young. I remember thinking too, that she really liked the nestbox, and of course, it is gone now. Poor Havoc trying to find a suitable place for them to nest. His world came crashing down too. I sure hope that all of our little juvies made it ok. Ok, I'm rambling now. I just miss seeing them.

Kittenface, I thought the same thing, but I doubt that it's really possible. :-(

Oh something else I just thought of, do they stay there all year?

bev. · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:44 pm

I am so upset with this site right now. and that they knew there was a new female and moved the e box anyway.

Falcons are creatures of habit and will nest where they choose. And where they put the box is clearly not suitable.

To much for me this year. But I will not go on. I will move on.

Hope they have learned a valuable lesson .but I think not.

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:57 pm

bev. wrote:

I am so upset with this site right now. and that they knew there was a new female and moved the e box anyway.

Falcons are creatures of habit and will nest where they choose. And where they put the box is clearly not suitable.

To much for me this year. But I will not go on. I will move on.

Hope they have learned a valuable lesson .but I think not.

Apparently, they just found out for sure that Sheila is no longer the resident female, but we tried to tell them back in February that it was a possibility. If they had kept the cam going a while longer, we would have been able to tell for sure & let them know. Now, they have had to go to a lot of work to set up a new nestbox (for nothing) & we don't have a cam to watch! :madsun:

PruJoy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:08 pm

Just read thru all yr thoughts of the past few posts & can add this:

that Alcoa is way to far from the Sunshine Coast for Sheila to be sitting on eggs in the windowbox ....

that yes our Aussies peregrines do not migrate at all during the year - they always hang around their own territory.

Sorry this is a bit brief as my brain is on "eco" mode (energy saving :wink:

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