JERSEY CITY & UNION COUNTY~JANUARY-JUNE, 2018

Terka · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2018 2:50 pm

Jersey City :15heartbeat:

ljames · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2018 9:37 pm

What a little cutie.
:loveheart2:

Kris G. · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 12:05 pm

Post on Union County

Betty Ann Kelly Stockton University
Today NJ DEP's Kathy Clark, Wildlife Biologist and Ben Wurst of Conserve Wildlife Foundation, will be coming to check on and treat the eyases. If warranted, there is a possibility of removing one of the chicks and bringing it to the Jersey City nest site where it would be adopted by the adult falcons there. The JC nest only has one eyas so this would ensure more attention and food for the adopted eyas. However, Kathy and Ben will be assessing the situation today before determing that move.

Only 3 eyases were returned to the box. Cadence has been a wonderful mother but this mate is not a good provider. Cadence has been stressed at the lack of food coming in and trying to do much on her own so this will give Jersey City two eyases and better survival chances for Cadences remaining 3.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64757

Awesome news....and juliet (and "Romeo")..will be thrilled!!!

mikeg713 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 12:56 pm

Juliet and Romeo have 2 fosters! Juliet at first seemed a bit confused with the extra ones but she's got it under control now :hapdance:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64757

mikeg713 wrote:

Juliet and Romeo have 2 fosters! Juliet at first seemed a bit confused with the extra ones but she's got it under control now :hapdance:

2? Awesome!!!

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64757

Where did Foster #2 come from?

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64757

I am so confused. I am pretty sure there are still 4 at Union...

mikeg713 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 1:26 pm

skygirlblue wrote:

Where did Foster #2 come from?

I'll try to find out. I know a week-old chick fell from a cliff nest north of JC recently and was at the Raptor Trust. There's no safe way to get to that nest, so perhaps that's who became Foster #2.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64757

mikeg713 wrote:

skygirlblue wrote:

Where did Foster #2 come from?

I'll try to find out. I know a week-old chick fell from a cliff nest north of JC recently and was at the Raptor Trust. There's no safe way to get to that nest, so perhaps that's who became Foster #2.

Thanks....did one come from Union? So hard to get a head count right now..

Kris G. · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 1:32 pm

Posted

We're on a mission today with NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife to visit several peregrine #falcon nests in N. Jersey. Two of those nests (Elizabeth/UC Courthouse & Jersey City) have webcams on them. In Elizabeth we assessed the health and medicated all four eyases for tricomoniasis, a pigeon borne disease. They all look great and we're happy to get a free meal of raw chicken (with their medication).

Now we're headed to Jersey City to assess the health of the lone eyas, remove unhatched eggs, and possibly foster some orphan falcons in their nest.

Tune in to watch the Jersey City #FalconCam when we go onto the roof around 12:30-1pm.

They returned all of Cadence’s eyases! :loveshow:

The fosters for JC were from other scrapes.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64757

Thanks Kris...that explains why I kept thinking I was seeing 4 at Union...

One little chick has isolated itself from the others and mom at Jersey. He's very quiet, hanging head down. Juliet knows he's there but currently has made no move to pull him with the others...As they were removing the Jersey chick, kathy stated that he didn't look good...All 3 looked pretty good when they put him back.

I have lots of pics, but they will have to wait....maybe someone can keep an eye out on them? I have to leave for a while.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64757

Ben Wurst Mod • 4 minutes ago

Hey all, as you can see there are now three 10-11 day old eyases in the nestbox. After assessing the health of the lone JC eyas, which was not good for a five day old, we decided to keep him for further evaluation/treatment and then we will foster him into another nest with young that are around the same age. The decision to do this was the best option for this nest and the orphaned young (who were from a nest that was found during construction on the Goethals Bridge). We'll be writing up the full story in a lengthy nestbox news entry later this week. Thank you all for the support!

Poor little one...I sure hope he will be ok!!

mikeg713 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 2:06 pm

skygirlblue wrote:

Ben Wurst Mod • 4 minutes ago

Hey all, as you can see there are now three 10-11 day old eyases in the nestbox. After assessing the health of the lone JC eyas, which was not good for a five day old, we decided to keep him for further evaluation/treatment and then we will foster him into another nest with young that are around the same age. The decision to do this was the best option for this nest and the orphaned young (who were from a nest that was found during construction on the Goethals Bridge). We'll be writing up the full story in a lengthy nestbox news entry later this week. Thank you all for the support!

Poor little one...I sure hope he will be ok!!

Wow, thanks for posting, explains a lot! Hope the little one will be ok too!

The shy one in the corner looks like it's perking up a bit, hopefully it waddles over to the rest. Juliet had walked over to it a few times to check on it earlier.

mikeg713 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 2:11 pm

2:08 p.m. Juliet brought in food and is feeding the shy one, one of the others just walked over too. The 3rd already has a huge crop but might want a few more bites too.

mikeg713 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 3:01 pm

All 3 are together now, with Juliet brooding :hapdance:

mikeg713 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 3:24 pm

3:22 p.m. another feeding.

mikeg713 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 3:47 pm

3:45 p.m. JC: the kids are napping, and Dad is spending some time with them.

bev. · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 7:14 pm

hats off to the team here. Great work . this is something our biolgist would do also. fingers crossed for young chick.

Dutch Eagle Fan · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2018 7:19 pm

What a turn of events. Good to know the little one will be taken care of. It was a very late (almost unexpected) hatch, 44 days after the first egg. Let's hope it will thrive and be released into the wild eventually.

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