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Nest location: On the side of a building 14 stories high at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Damon (male)
Radisson (female)

Miss Edmonton (formerly known as Transmitter Girl) nested nearby, but no camera is on that site.

Hope you are catching up on your sleep Bev and dreaming of warmer days!!

I've seen someone up there for the past 3 days now
I just forgot to post about it the past couple days it was 2 guys up there

I think they are thinking of doing some work on the building . I have been trying to get hold of the biologist but so far no luck.
sorry I have not been around much. working on my slide show for here which will finally be ready in the next few days . took awhile but life got in the way.
thanks for keeping an eye . I have been checking things out but did not see the guys up there.

Well, I have finally finished the slide shows. I have broken them up into about 7 different slideshows.

This was a hard year for me, as I found organizing the first fledge watch very draining. It has taken a long time for me to recover . It also meant I could not take as many pictures for all of you.

The shots in my shows are all from the ground so they are not always big. I tried to tell the story with the pictures.
Peter and I are still very troubled about the demise of white band as we always said he never left the nest box roof. I guess having picked him off the ground and looking him in the eyes made it worse. I still have not been able to meet with the biologists but things will have to change next year if I do this officially.
Peter and I do not think we are knowledgeable enough to make the call as to whether they should be put back or not. I think they should always be checked out by someone who deals with the raptors on a daily basis. If we had not put him back , maybe he would have survived.


Having said that , we did do 5 rescues and had 3 make it to migration. 3 of the rescues were as a result of interference and this is unfortunate. It was not because they were not capable of flying. Red Bands first rescue was becasue he was scared off the perch when yellow band landed in the white contraption. His wings were not developed enough to be fledging. # 2 rescue of red band was becasue he was spooked off the roof by maintenance workers. # 3 should have been rescue #1 for him but at least he stayed put for a few days after that and was later very cocky and strong. He was a hoot to watch. Quite the personality.

I hope you enjoy my story in slides.
See next post

These shows are dedicated to white band


I have put start and The end adn tired to say how many pictures in each one.
Someone requested I do that and it makes sense. I will have to learn how to do titles. they are not professional but doing them brought back so many memories.

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The next 2 slideshows are the start of fledging and Froona after her first night night out.
Poor Froona. She had such a strong flight at 9:30pm and the next day a maintenance worker scared her off the heart building intentionally because he thought a helicopter could come in. I did not report him and thankfully she was strong and eventually did well the day after.
what a beauty she is.

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The next is a series of 4 slideshows showing the kids in action. I always tried to find all 3.

I had to leave suddenly mid august so Peter was left with the task of tracking them.

so when he came to pick me up on Vancouver Island mid September we had no one to watch.
but Froona was still there when he left Sept14.

the first 2 slideshows
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The next 3 slideshows are up to Peter left mid -September.

These bring back so many memories. In one show I show all 3 kids on ledge tucking in for the night. Red and Froona were on the same ledge. I remember that because she came in so fast that I thought she would crash. Red looked astonished. those 2 were buds.
I think white and yellow would have been buds. Yellow was the one who left first and he was sighted in an area west of Edmonton where a lot gather before migration

We always knew when Froona was around as she was so vocal. and Red always tried to knock the adults from their perches .
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And finally Radissons last days before migration.
when we came back at the end of September we knew the kids would be gone. We must have just missed Damon leaving.
this ,for me , is always a sad time because we never know what the next year will hold.

So I am done and feel relieved to have this done. I had so many pictures.
I split it up so as not to bore you too much.
remember these all from the ground and even with a great camera, when they are way up , they are way up

So I believe there are about 7 or 8 shows altogether

I am glad you are all enjoying them. Even though they are late I guess this is as good a time as any. Fills in the gap a bit until they come back.

I still have not heard from the biologists and I would like to meet with them before the falcons return.

Froona was quite the gal. I remeber that morning well ,with the magpies./ She just kept moving from place to place to try and get more height and redband thought she should play tag and that would force her down lower than I think she wanted to go.
The weather was not great that day and we had intruders and she finally made it to the highest spot with the boys. Peter and I let out a big cheer as did the construction workers.

Thanks bev. for all the beautiful pictures and the stories, but especially for being there for them. I admire you and others who dedicate themselves to helping the little falcon juvies. I just don't think that I would have enough courage for it.

It is tough, ljames but I knew this year with the new building there would be problems.

I love watching them but as you can tell I have a bleeding heart also.

Thanks for all your time putting these together Bev! You can celebrate the successful fledgiing of 3 of your sweet babies, and that's wonderful!