Peregrine Flacon Nest

Tom Wall

Tom Wall

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The pair of Peregrine Falcon's nesting in Columbus, OH are incubating 4 eggs that are expected to hatch next week. Here is a link to the webcam: http://ohiodnr.com/...e_nestbox_video.aspx

With the warmer weather the adults, Scout and Orville, are not sitting as tightly on the eggs so you will get to see them periodically.

If you want to see chciks now some have already hatched in Cleveland: http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/news.php

And, if you want to read about every happening of Ohio falcons, plus see some very cool pics checkout the falcon forum: http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum.php

Tom
 
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Tom,
Very cool. The Peregrine is one of my favorite Raptors. They have a bunch in Detroit also to eat the pigeons. Turns out, at times, they prefer the song birds. ;)
Lou
 
I saw one 2 days ago in the front yard of someone's house in town on a kill it made. We had a pair on the water tower in town a few years ago. When I see a bunch of feathers or rabbit fur in someone's yard I know some type hawk had a good meal that day. I see red tails more often and they seem to like to target squirrels a lot.

Dennis

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That's pretty neat...i saw Momma feeding the chicks...but I was wondering if mine was the only one that as you watched the video, the camera flashed from light to dark, light to dark...

Dani
 
The chicks are growing. Both parents will be feeding them more and more.

They are voting this week on the names for the chicks. The link is on this page: http://ohiodnr.com/...alcons/columbus.aspx
You can only vote once, per day?? Banding should be in the next couple of weeks.

Here is a link to some video of the banding in Cleveland last Friday. In the first one the guy who had to climb out on the ledge is glad he had a hard hat on!

http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?43624.190

Tom
 
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A pair are nesting behind my house. We have a little koi pond behind the house and a bird feeder back there. My wife and I were sitting out there one evening and with no warning a blur, just barely clearing the top of a 60 foot pine, came down out of the blue and took out one of the little feeder birds; might as well have been a bullet. Just a bunch of feathers floating around was all that was left of that bird. Then the other day, from the same spot, I caught a glimpse of the pair far away high up in the sky, no sooner did I turn to tell my wife about it than they were buzzing us, the pair of them, just a few feet over our heads and slowed as they came to the holler back behind us where they nest. That's the best look I've ever had of them in real life, slow and low just over our heads. We also have Merlins and Kestrels.

Ed.
 
Chicks will be banded this coming Thursday the 21st at 10 am EDT. They should also clean up the nest box cam at that time which will improve the view.

The banding will be broadcast live on the web cam.

Tom
 
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