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Dan is on nest

Yep. It's Cher. There was a prey delivery @ 8:11AM.

Here's video Jim took and posted to You Tube



She just headed to the box and is standing over eggs - 9:43am

Haya....

Glenn Stewart just posted:

IN MEMORIUM

I regret to inform everyone that HAYA was found dead beneath the Hegenberger overpass. A headless pigeon was found nearby. We speculate that she was struck by a car shortly after capturing the pigeon. This is a tough break for all of us--those who provided medical treatment, rehabilitation conditioning, observing following release, and everyone who thought about and cared about the outcome for this bird. These things happen every day but we do not know about it unless it is a banded bird--that someone finds and reports. Thanks to the work of many, she did not meet her end shot and starving or in a medical clinic, but with her face into the wind while carving out a piece of the San Francisco Bay as her own. With regrets, --glenn@scpbrg

It is truly sad , but she died in the somewhat semi wild.

Soar free with your face to the wind.

I'm so sorry to hear this, & I know she was very special to you mwplay so my condolences to you. This has to be heartbreaking for you & all the special people who cared for her.

I was so glad when she was successfully rehabbed and released. I really feel sorry for those that really dedicated so many hours into rehabbing her and then following her progress. It must be very hard for them.

She had no mate. I literally just posted a video of her last night on the SJ thread. I found it when I was looking at Shirley Doell's You Tube channel. Shirley follows Hiko & his family at the Fruitvale bridge. The video showed Haya on the US Bank building in Oakland, and then Shirley panned her scope towards the bridge. Tremaine (Hiko's new mate and the falcon Haya battled with right after she was released from rehab) was sitting on the bridge and they were in eyesight of each other. I often wondered if after she was stronger, would she attempt to take her territory back. Then I wondered what Hiko's response to her was, because he had to have seen her. Made me think about DC, Beauty & Pigott in Rochester and Pa, VV and 2OR in De Mortel.

Haya was the very first peregrine I ever saw in the wild. A few years ago, I heard they had spotted and identified Hiko at Fruitvale. It's only about 25-30 minutes away from where I live, so I decided to take a drive one day to see a peregrine. When I finally saw her I understood what it must feel like for people who watch these birds for hours. I couldn't look away and what was only supposed to be a "short visit" turned into hours. (me and watching these birds!)

Their nest location is over a narrow waterway. One side is Oakland and more industrial. The other side, Alameda, backs up to a small retail shopping mall. There's a really nice path and some benches. It was a great way to spend a few hours, watching Haya and Hiko, and all the other birds and ground animals that live there. I was so focused on watching them, that I was scared half to death when I thought there were rats coming out of the grass just a few feet away from me... I think they were some kind of ground squirrel! I was looking up, instead of down and not really paying attention to my surroundings - (stupid!).

I guess the positive is that she lived, she reproduced and she probably taught many about rehabbing a wild falcon. She, like EC, was displaced from her territory, but lived right on the edge, still able to see her home. Now, I wonder about Lil - maybe she's just out of our eyesight, but close enough for Dan & Cher to see her.

Thanks, Terka! Looks like she's on them!

And still is...

Post from Glenn's blog regarding Haya. Little more information - they now think she was probably electrocuted.




HAYA: Rest in Peace
In Raptor Rehabilitation on March 29, 2013 at 11:45 am

Well, we lost her. It was one of those things that can happen to any raptor at any time. I posted to the nest camera discussion groups that she was hit by a car but upon further inspection that seems not to be the case. A headless pigeon was found near her body under the Hegenberger overpass. Thanks to the bands that she wore, identification was easy. Due to nearby traffic it was easy to assume that she was hit and killed instantly on the roadway while trying to control and eat a recently captured pigeon. But she had burns on both feet and on her head making us now think that she was probably electrocuted. If she touched one wire with a wingtip and the pigeon’s wing touched another wire, the electrical current passing through her would have been tremendous. There was a utility pole above her as well as a vehicle overpass.

These things happen and there is nothing in the world we can do to prevent it short of burying all the utility wires. After seeing the x-rays of her injury, the second fracture at the site of a bone infection, and her poor plumage after months of medical treatment, I never thought I would see the day when she was released successfully. The Lindsay Museum did a heroic job of treating her. Jim DeRoque put in the time to physically condition her and molt her through to a new set of feathers. And Haya pushed all the way through to once again live like a peregrine with her face freely looking in to the wind. What happened to her could have–and does–happen to raptors every single day. She had an accident on the utility wires that had nothing at all to do with her injury, treatment, or rehabilitation.

3/29/13 Update on SFO.

It was foggy along the coast and at the first coastal bench where I usually use a pasture for exercising flights. I proceeded further up to the second coastal bench where I found sunshine. There are no fence posts at the higher meadow so I took out the car perch and set it on a little rise.
By the time I got the telemetry on, the fog was creeping across my grassy flat. About 150 yards out SFO started to come (not because he loves me but because he knows I have the food) so I pulled out the lure and swung it. Instead of dropping it for him, I swung it toward him then pulled it. He made a little circle up and away and came back past. I pulled it one more time and then dropped it for him. Two passes--I was impressed.
The lure was prepped with a quail wing and a little bit of breast meat so I picked him up with the lure and let him finish before putting him down on a little bush and hurrying back toward the other side of the meadow. The fog was still hanging and again, he came before losing a view of me. I pulled the lure and watched him pull up from ground level to about thirty feet while looking back over his shoulder. I'll keep pulling the lure so see if I can keep him in the air longer. I would call this slight progress even though he still holds his wing funny and still has a long way to go.
His last flight was less impressive. I set him up for the 2/10ths mile flight across the lower pasture--he perched 5 times on fence posts as he made his way toward the lure. I liked that he was able to plant clean landings on the perches but did not like that he could not seem to make the whole distance. His return trip across the pasture to the lure was better with no stops along the way. Today's shorter flights with more maneuvers looked better than I have seen so we will keep plugging away with this little guy.

Thanks for the additional info on Haya & SFO, mwplay! I guess if we had to lose her, I like the idea of electricution better than being hit by a car, because at least we know she died quickly & didn't suffer.

Glenn is one heck of a great human-being for the care he has given many birds!