XCEL 2013

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:22 pm

skygirlblue wrote:

hot mess of a nest is right...

This certainly would be some eggs that I would want to test for toxins (not that I'm even gonna suggest that at RRP)

Strange, strange year..yet again at King...

Me either, not that our opinions & thoughts matter anyway. :teehee:

Matrix · **Posted:** Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:16 pm

I wish I could get those two dark eggs and see whats in them...LOL
It's over...This one checked the eggs a couple times, but mostly sat on the edge and preened...I'm still trying to get the band read...Lost cause but the right looks purple...Still kind of looks like a white stripe on the left top...

Matrix · **Posted:** Sun Sep 01, 2013 5:14 pm

King Plant:

Round Three???!!!

Matrix · **Posted:** Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:13 pm

The Bands...I want to know the bands!!! :teehee:

Sally · **Posted:** Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:25 pm

Where is this site?

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64351

Here ya go, Sally....this is the King site..

You can find the cam on this link:

Cams are listed on the left hand side of the page...

Sally · **Posted:** Fri Sep 06, 2013 2:02 pm

skygirlblue wrote:

Here ya go, Sally....this is the King site..

You can find the cam on this link:

Cams are listed on the left hand side of the page...

Thank you Skygirlblue!

Matrix · **Posted:** Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:04 am

So...... IF this is Brent...he sure is giving plenty of opportunities for band reading that we all wish they (falcons) would do at times....However the cam isn't going to allow it....

That IS Belinda on the left....She has that pure white silky looking feathers around her abdomen...unusual...

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64351

Thanks for the pics...

I have tried sooooooooooooooooooooooooo many times to read those bands....

Matrix · **Posted:** Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:16 am

King Plant:

Sometime in the past week the eggs have disappeared and the cam adjusted... I hope to hear about those last two eggs!!

no sign of peregrines in the dailies...migration time...

Matrix · **Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:01 pm

They Have NOT migrated yet!!

Matrix · **Posted:** Fri Oct 04, 2013 1:08 pm

King...I am liking this view...

Two still there...both were in this pic from the stills....

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:10 pm

Here we go everyone fresh off the press's at RRP forum
by Nora

I saw Doug a few days ago on the dailies.

Amy & Bob were there recently, I believe the 24th. This was on FaceBook:

We needed to go up the Allen S. King stack on Tuesday to check the camera at Belinda's nest. Belinda and her mate were both there (falcons are partial migrators and Belinda usually remains on site year-round), and we found signs of another bird. Belinda had cached the remains of three woodcocks on the stack catwalk, a bird I've never seen at any falcon nest before.

According to what I've read, woodcocks begin departing from their breeding areas in late September and may continue into mid-December depending on weather and food availability. Most interestingly, they migrate at night, flying about 50 feet above the ground. Moon phase and weather help determine the timing of their departure, and we had a full moon just four days before Bob and I went up the stack. If these were migratory birds - and I suspect they were - Belinda was catching them after dark, by the light of the full moon.

For a little more on woodcocks, check these websites out:
http://mncoopunit.cfans.umn.edu/projects/woodcock/
http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/assistance ... odcock.pdf

Matrix · **Posted:** Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:31 pm

kittenface wrote:

Here we go everyone fresh off the press's at RRP forum
by Nora

I saw Doug a few days ago on the dailies.

Amy & Bob were there recently, I believe the 24th. This was on FaceBook:

We needed to go up the Allen S. King stack on Tuesday to check the camera at Belinda's nest. Belinda and her mate were both there (falcons are partial migrators and Belinda usually remains on site year-round), and we found signs of another bird. Belinda had cached the remains of three woodcocks on the stack catwalk, a bird I've never seen at any falcon nest before.

According to what I've read, woodcocks begin departing from their breeding areas in late September and may continue into mid-December depending on weather and food availability. Most interestingly, they migrate at night, flying about 50 feet above the ground. Moon phase and weather help determine the timing of their departure, and we had a full moon just four days before Bob and I went up the stack. If these were migratory birds - and I suspect they were - Belinda was catching them after dark, by the light of the full moon.

For a little more on woodcocks, check these websites out:
http://mncoopunit.cfans.umn.edu/projects/woodcock/
http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/assistance ... odcock.pdf

Thanks Kitten!!! :leafok: