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 Post subject: JERSEY CITY FALCONS - 2011
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PLEASE BEGIN YOUR 2011 POSTS HERE! :ny16:

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Happy New Year!! :ny5:

Here's the NJ DEP Peregrine report from 2010:
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/pefa10_report.pdf

For the 2nd year in a row, a JC alumni made the "front page" :ny16:

Here's to another very successful season at 101 Hudson!! :sfcheers:


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Thank you Mike isn't that just on of the most gorgeous birds!!!!!

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Thank you Mike isn't that just on of the most gorgeous birds!!!!!


Yup he's a "looker" :wink: He was actually the 4th JC alumni to be spotted at a nest site: the 1st-ever female fledgling from JC has been nesting on a platform in Stone Harbor since 2005 (not far north of Cape May); a female from 2005 has been at a cliff site in New Haven, CT since 2009; and a female from 2003 has been at the Union County courthouse in Elizabeth since 2005 (a few miles southwest of JC). The male discovered this past year was also from 2003 (that clutch had 4 fledges, and was the 2nd clutch laid that year since the 1st one was destroyed in a freak early April snowstorm! Talk about destiny!!).


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Thanks for posting the report, Mike...and :ny8:


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Thanks for that report, Mike! I love reading these reports. I'm going to copy it to the front of the topic, so we can access it easily!

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Thanks for the report Mike. Its so nice to see the 2003 offspring all over. What an amazingly tough year that was for the JC pair, but still successful!

Also great to see you and Bonnie get nice credit for your efforts!


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Thanks for the report Mike. Its so nice to see the 2003 offspring all over. What an amazingly tough year that was for the JC pair, but still successful!

Also great to see you and Bonnie get nice credit for your efforts!


Thanks everyone, and yes Barb, that was a nice surprise at the end of the report :sfthumbs:


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kittenface wrote:
Thank you Mike isn't that just on of the most gorgeous birds!!!!!


Yup he's a "looker" :wink: He was actually the 4th JC alumni to be spotted at a nest site: the 1st-ever female fledgling from JC has been nesting on a platform in Stone Harbor since 2005 (not far north of Cape May);



Anyone have an idea as to where in Stone Harbor this nest is located? Reason for my inquiry is that its closer than JC for me and the family has a home in Avalon right on the same island as Stone Harbor. I need a good excuse to go down there and this is the best one yet!

Just a wing up , since this is a barrier island there is alot of migrating birds and also nice marshland in the back bays between Townsend's and Herford inlets so the food supply should be good for him

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LeicaEagles wrote:
mikeg713 wrote:
kittenface wrote:
Thank you Mike isn't that just on of the most gorgeous birds!!!!!


Yup he's a "looker" :wink: He was actually the 4th JC alumni to be spotted at a nest site: the 1st-ever female fledgling from JC has been nesting on a platform in Stone Harbor since 2005 (not far north of Cape May);



Anyone have an idea as to where in Stone Harbor this nest is located? Reason for my inquiry is that its closer than JC for me and the family has a home in Avalon right on the same island as Stone Harbor. I need a good excuse to go down there and this is the best one yet!

Just a wing up , since this is a barrier island there is alot of migrating birds and also nice marshland in the back bays between Townsend's and Herford inlets so the food supply should be good for him


Hi George,

Not sure exactly where the nest is, but I do know it's on an old hack platform, and by now might have one of those dog igloo's as the "nest box."


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Not sure if this is relevant or not but on the meadowlands blog site there is a great shot of a peregrine taken there and since it is not too far from JC, this was the best location i could fathom to post it. Maybe theyre the offspring of the JC pair??

http://www.meadowblog.net/

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Hung out on Disposal Rd. for most of the afternoon Frday.
I was greeted upon arrival around 1:40 p.m. by an adult Peregrine Falcon on a nearby electric tower behind the Carillon. It dove off the tower towards the Carillon, apparently trying to get lunch, but I didn't see what exactly it was targeting.

A few minutes later it dove off again, this time heading east over the Teal Pool, and attacked a Sharp-shinned Hawk, diving at it at least 3 times. It repeated the general diving-and-returning to a tower routine 2 more times, gradually moving south along the Saw Mill Creek trail."

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Not sure if this is relevant or not but on the meadowlands blog site there is a great shot of a peregrine taken there and since it is not too far from JC, this was the best location i could fathom to post it. Maybe theyre the offspring of the JC pair??

http://www.meadowblog.net/

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"Mike Girone reports:


Hung out on Disposal Rd. for most of the afternoon Frday.
I was greeted upon arrival around 1:40 p.m. by an adult Peregrine Falcon on a nearby electric tower behind the Carillon. It dove off the tower towards the Carillon, apparently trying to get lunch, but I didn't see what exactly it was targeting.

A few minutes later it dove off again, this time heading east over the Teal Pool, and attacked a Sharp-shinned Hawk, diving at it at least 3 times. It repeated the general diving-and-returning to a tower routine 2 more times, gradually moving south along the Saw Mill Creek trail."


Hi George,

Glad you read the meadowlands blog! And glad you like the picture, I'm actually the one who took it! :snowmancarrot:

That Peregrine wasn't banded, so it's not from JC (they've banded the chicks since nesting began there). I do think it could be one of the resident adults from a nearby site by Giants stadium that's been occupied since 2008.

I'm a little surprised none of the JC offspring over all these years has turned up in the Meadowlands. I know the youngsters generally wander south their first winter, but figured at least one or 2 would've spotted this prime hunting habitat to the west.

Here's another pic I took of that Meadowlands Peregrine. This one was pure luck, as it was just coming out of it's dive and moving very fast (the picture on the blog was after it had slowed down and was turning back to the high-tension tower it came from).

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Beautiful shots Mike! It looks like you are putting your upgraded camera to good use!!


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Hi Mike :nicetomeet:

Beautiful image- it's always hard for me to take pictures against the sky so I really appreciate how nice these pics are :P


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Wow, nice photos and updates Mike-thank you :sfthumbs:

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Thanks everyone! :-)

Yea Mick, sky-background shots can be tough! The reflected sunlight off the snow helps bring out those underside details, but can also white-out those details if the settings aren't just right (lost a potentially nice pic of a Rough-legged Hawk that way, the day before I got the Peregrine pics).


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Hey everyone! :egg5: Made my first visit of the new season at JC today. I was on the corner of Columbus Ave. and Hudson St. from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. I picked that spot to stay in the shade of Exchange Place (no sun glare to contend with in the scope), but boy did I shiver! The Peregrine action more then made up for it though!

Upon arrival at 10:30 a.m., Mom was at 101 Hudson, perched atop the parapet behind the nest box.. About 8 minutes later, Dad flew up and mated with her for about 6-8 seconds. He then flew over to Exchange Place. Around 11:10 a.m., Mom flew a few blocks north between Hudson & Greene Streets. She returned to the nest box parapet a few minutes later. At 11:31 a.m., the pair mated again, on the same parapet as before. Dad then circled over Montgomery St. and headed west.

At 11:43 a.m., Dad was back, circling around the west and south side of 101 Hudson. While he was behind the building, a juvenile Peregrine appeared out of nowhere, flying west over Montgomery St. about half-way up the north side of 101 Hudson! When Dad came around east side of 101, he spotted the intruder and began chasing it west over Montgomery St. Mom (still atop the nest box parapet) either saw or heard this, and dove off the parapet, joining her mate in chasing away the juvenile falcon. I lost the trio behind the 30 Montgomery St. building.

Mom briefly returned to 101 Hudson around 11:50 a.m., then flew off and glided west over Columbus Ave., then turned to the Northwest and disappeared behind Plaza 4A. She returned to 101 shortly before 12:00 p.m., on a parapet near the middle of the 41st floor ledge (same level as the nest box). Shortly afterward, she stooped off the parapet and dived out over Greene St., behind 30 Montgomery St. It was reminiscent of the stoop I watched her do last June (she came out of it as she passed over me by maybe 40 feet; I was 2 blocks northwest of 101 Hudson that day). This stoop, however, was much steeper, but don’t know if she got what she was after.

Around 12:15 p.m., I spotted Dad perched on the same 41st floor parapet as Mom before her stoop. After a few minutes of preening, he flew to the top of Exchange Place, facing west. He was still there at 12:30 p.m., when Mom was spotted on the 39th floor, perched on the eastern bracket.

Very happy I got to see the pair so active today!! The juvenile Peregrine was a big surprise. I didn’t get a good enough look to see if it was banded (actually I didn’t even know it was a juvenile until I looked at my pics, it all happened so fast). I’ll try to find out when the cam will be turned on, but I imagine it’ll be sometime this week.

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Dad after the 1st “canoodle”
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Mom after the 1st “canoodle”
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So great to hear from you Mike...and great pics!!! Wonder who that juvie was... :egg16:


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So great to hear from you Mike...and great pics!!! Wonder who that juvie was... :egg16:


Thanks SGB! 2 friends I told this to thought maybe it was one of last year's girls trying to sneak back home :egg9: No bands are apparent in the pic, but most of the time last year I didn't see the girls' bands unless I had the scope on them. If it wasn't one of them, it could've been a migrant just passing through (spring raptor migration is underway). :think


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