BOWLING GREEN~2024-2025

catwoman · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2023 7:48 pm

Resident pairs and cam links will the updated as the season begins.

Bowling Green 2024 residents are:
Female: Erika, 2021 Hatch from NIPSCO Bailly, Indiana b/blu K/63:
male: unbanded

Cam Links: 2025

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:06 am

is there no cam here

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64413

bev. wrote:

is there no cam here

Good question. I don't know why it hasn't been turned on. This happens almost every year..and they already have egg (s) in the box...

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:50 pm

Thanks SGB

Thought I was in wrong place

Tsusan · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:49 pm

I just sent the Bowling Green Commissioners an email. Fingers crossed it helps…

Beth · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:55 pm

Thanks "T", I check the cam every day :) (several times!)

Tsusan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:53 pm

I got some sad news in a reply to my inquiry about the falcon nest from the IT Director of Wood County,Ohio.
“Thank you for reaching out regarding the camera. It’s not widely known, but the female that provided so many offspring over the 10+ years was found deceased last month. So far, the nest has been idle, so we’re not sure if we’ll be lucky enough to have new tenants this year.
On a positive note, I’m upgrading the old camera with a newer camera that will provide an audio feed. So fingers crossed that we have a couple that will continue to utilize the nest for years to come.
I’ll be sure to let you know if/when we have eggs this year.
Thanks,
Ben Hendricks BHendricks@woodcountyohio.gov
IT Director, Wood County, Ohio
Last year’s female had not been there that long, had she? I’m going to reply urging him to turn on the cam because the male is probably courting a new female already….It is exciting they have a new cam.

Beth · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:10 am

Oh gosh 'T"-many thanks for the update on the nest.
Good and bad news for sure...

Tsusan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:17 pm

OH My gosh! The cam is on!!! If anyone feels like sending a note of thanks to Mr. Hendricks, his email is BHendricks@woodcountyohio.gov PS I can see a falcon probably out on a perch on the right side! AND Mr Hendricks says the cam with audio has been ordered, and they may receive it as early as next week!

Beth · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:59 pm

Thanks "T", you rock!!!
:egg5:

Sent a thank you e-mail to Mr. Hendricks...

Terka · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:23 pm

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:19 pm

[posting picutres.
she is talking got someone and did look to be in position for a bit. went ot perch talking and then flew out

was talking up a storm

great work Susan getting a hold of them :hapdance:

.
thank them from us. nice cam . sorry about last years female :sorrow:

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:20 pm

Tsusan wrote:

OH My gosh! The cam is on!!! If anyone feels like sending a note of thanks to Mr. Hendricks, his email is BHendricks@woodcountyohio.gov PS I can see a falcon probably out on a perch on the right side! AND Mr Hendricks says the cam with audio has been ordered, and they may receive it as early as next week!

just saw this . will do thi s after I finish baking

Beth · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:43 pm

Thanks to "T" and her (e-mail link) I received this info this evening from Ben:

Beth,

If you would like to post an update on the deceased falcon, it was banded. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) stopped banding our chicks after the first few years because the species has flourished quite well (at least in Ohio). It's our assumption that the banded falcon may have been the original female that prompted the building of the nest about 14 years ago. Her male partner(s) didn’t have any bands on them. Over the last 5 years you could tell that age was becoming a factor as her eggs were becoming fewer with some not hatching at all.

Only ODNR knows for sure if she was the original tenant as they would have a record of the bands that were recorded back in 2009/2010 and the bands that were retrieved on the deceased falcon in the last couple of weeks.
I’d like to think she was…

Thanks,

Ben Hendricks
IT Director
Wood County, Ohio

Tsusan · **Posted:** Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:41 pm

Thank you for posting that, Beth. I mentioned this on the South Bend thread, too, but I am so impressed with these ITs I contacted. It seemed as though they worked to solve the problem as soon as they were informed. I am so grateful for their expertise!

Tsusan · **Posted:** Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:27 am

Good morning all! Momma spent a good bit of time in the left back corner (near the cam) this morning. Could she be thinking about a egg already?

Beth · **Posted:** Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:51 am

Ben sent another e-mail this am.
BG nest

Beth,

I had an opportunity to ask about the deceased female and she was named “Ricky” and she hatched in Michigan in 2020.

Thanks,
Ben Hendricks
IT Director

bev. · **Posted:** Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:35 am

March 29
Just assumed no bands was female but this morning, big banded at left corner and a unbanded one right now at mid back talking.
Will try and get shots
The banded one had white on head. Mmmmmm

Tsusan · **Posted:** Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:27 pm

FYI - the cam home picture has been moved down the page, after 4 rows of University stuff. Why did they do that! AND Missy has standing quietly in that same front left corner….

bev. · **Posted:** Sat Mar 30, 2024 10:51 am

She is going to lay an egg out of view when she does :egg11:

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