GENESEE, ALBERTA ~ 2010

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:27 am

As I told you last year ,the nest box is in a very secure area. So we cannot get close. We have to park way up on highway.(we pull off and walk down the hill usually, but it was very windy and cold today.
for the longest time all we saw wee crows and ravens
(2 X,s in sky is where the falcons were fighting; other X on building is where the other falcon landed , nest box is on cylinder shaped tower .

falcon by tower when we drove N

these were best shots we could get of one of the falcons , when we drove north. This is directly north of nest box and outside compound and across road. Falcons can see the nestbox tower from here.

sorry, best we could do today.

PruJoy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:22 am

thanks for sharing the pics & observations Bev. :clapegg:

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:35 pm

I have not seen the banded one today yet. but i am not always here

this is from a few minutes ago. 3:30pm
and then it looked to the right and up and poof. I hope things have settled down

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:41 pm

I t bothers me to not see these guys here more.

SusanE · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 7:51 pm

bev, you are so dedicated to make that trip out to the Genesee plant and observe for several hours in the cold and wind! Thanks for that report, and hopefully it was just a "friendly" warning to that third bird that this nest is taken. Of course, it will be tense when the transmitter male returns.

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:15 pm

Thanks Susan.

Once things settle down then. I will take a long break. but I had a feeling something was up that they were not spending much time at box.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64761

Thanks for those great pics, bev...and your 6th sense about something going on was spot on!!! let's hope the drama is over...

Any Idea where the transmitter male is? I worry about him and what will happen when he arrives...

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:52 pm

Oh, I must have forgot to post where transmitter male is.
As of april24, he flew west over the previous 3 days about 400km and is jsut west of Panama City.
Still along way away. I am worried about this also SGB.

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:49 pm

Looks like this one has a very nice white feather patch or it got pooped on :lol:

Its talon looks awefully red

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64761

He's been looking all around...preening...and napping...I thought surely she was gonna join him they way he kept looking up...

"....stuck a feather in his cap and called him Macaroni!!.." [its a feather..hee hee]

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64761

bev. wrote:

Oh, I must have forgot to post where transmitter male is.
As of april24, he flew west over the previous 3 days about 400km and is jsut west of Panama City.
Still along way away. I am worried about this also SGB.

Panama City, Florida? That's not good....as cute as this new male is...I feel so bad for T-man...traveling all this distance to find a male at his box. I sure hope you're right, Carly and that he finds a cutie on the way...OR, since you saw a 3rd falcon, Bev...maybe its a female without a mate and she hooks up with this current male or T-man...Somebody better go erect another box and soon!!!

bev. · **Posted:** Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:40 pm

I was thinking on Sunday that maybe the other falcon was the one from Weber building.

but I think what I should do is figure out when he is due home and then trap him and take him to Weber for Miss Edmonton.

I was thinking that the storm system maybe slowed him down. I know what will happen, no doubt.

I am going to keep a clsoe watch here if I can the next few days.
Where is our banded Miss???

bev. · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:09 pm

12:07pm
thank goodness . glad to see someone . Have not seen the banded one for a few days,
Now to see the other

Will have to check bands again

SusanE · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:15 pm

Love the pictures here. Hope it all works out for all the falcons in the Edmonton area this year.

ljames · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:34 pm

I was just sitting here watching this nest, thinking, I never see anybody here, and all of a sudden, a falcon. Very exciting.

PruJoy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:19 pm

Nice pics - great you could catch them - thanx ljames :thumbegg:

bev. · **Posted:** Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:30 am

I am glad you caught that ljames. I was getting worried.

NIce captures.
they seem to appear out of no where.
Now I have not seen the other one for a few days. they are messing with me.

bev. · **Posted:** Sat May 01, 2010 10:19 pm

this site is really baffling me this year.

SusanE · **Posted:** Sun May 02, 2010 9:31 am

ljames, you are becoming the newest member to the Falcon Whisperer Team! (I'm jealous :wink:

)

ljames · **Posted:** Mon May 03, 2010 12:04 am

No falcon whisperer here. For every minute I catch a falcon, I spend 100 somewhere else with no results. :lol:

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