Annie Has 2 Eggs
Annie, the Cal Falcon female now has two eggs. This season has been very touch and go for this pair of falcons. Near the end of last season, the male, Grinnel got badly beaten up in a fight with another falcon and an interloper showed up while he was recovering. However, he recovered enough to oust the interloper and things looked good until Annie vanished. She was gone so long that everybody was sure she was dead or moved on, but she eventually came back. The falcon folks said that nobody had heard of a female absenting herself from the nest for such a long period and then returning.
She did eventually return and laid her first egg a few days ago. Yesterday she laid another.
The pair are covered by multiple web cams, two exterior and one on the nest box. My favorite is the SW cam, embedded below:
be well and have a good one
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Great stuff EL!
Very cool stuff EL! Thanks! Maybe she had some peregrinations in her to burn off still... They have migrant tracking data on some that flew from the Arctic nesting grounds to Argentina to winter, and back to breed in Arctic next breeding season. Probably expended less energy than I on a short hike.
happy feathers!
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Thanks, Dysto. They've been at it for years, and their
offspring have all been banded before they dispersed. I haven't paid any real attention to them but apparently one has established a territory somewhere up in Marin County. The campus pair have really great digs up there, with one of the best views in the entire bay area.
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Experience with young Peregrine falcon
This is such a cool story! While visiting my sister last year in Ann Arbor, we got to watch the young falcon and the two parents on the clock tower and one other building on the U Michigan campus. We managed to get to see the parents come drop food off and then the young falcon flew between the two buildings. First time experience for my sister and she is slowly becoming more of a birder.
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Way cool JB. Thanks for reading.
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very cool JB!
great story jb! Neat to get to see them closely yourself. All it takes is one great bird encounter to often set folks off and they realize the magic of birds. Raptors are great at that, and colorful stuff like Painted Bunting or somesuch. I love all these nest cams out there nowadays... feeder cams too... Cornell has that hummer cam in the Davis Mtns., West Texas Hummingbirds might be the name of it.
We just had our first of spring returning Golden-cheeked Warblers this weekend here.
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Cool!
Many years ago when I lived on the north Florida coast, I watched a pair of ospreys build a nest in a nearby radio tower. A while later, there were two nestlings and it was great fun to watch the parents drop fish over the nest on a flyby. Sticks would fly as the nestlings fought over the fish. I was shocked that the nest even survived because every fish drop was spectacular in the amount of debris that flew out of the nest.
Then came the time for the youngsters to fledge. I watched them standing on the edge of the nest and flapping their wings as they rose in the air for a few feet only to land back on the edge of the nest. Finally, the first one fledged and flew off to become an adult osprey.
However the second one did not want to leave the nest. It took several days of the parents trying to run it off before it fledged only to land in a nearby tree fifty feet away crying to get back in the nest.
This is when I witnessed tough love. The two parents finally drove the reluctant youngster away from the tree and hopefully into becoming an adult osprey.
It was a great lesson in life.
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great Osprey observations gg!
great story GG. How neat to get to watch it all. Usually there are, a day in small birds and often two or three in large birds, between eggs, and so ages, of the young in a nest. Often the first is ready to go days before the last is. The time comes to fledge for all, some more reluctant than others. thanks for the story!
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This is good news, el.
Grinnel is a tough ol' bird.
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Resourceful too, last year with no student there were very
few pigeons which he and Annie made short work of, so he started hunting the bay shoreline and bringing back red winged blackbirds and some of the waders and such.
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