Scott Wright called in today to report that Lunge had made his first flight. Though not witnessed by Scott, Lunge was standing on a 6th floor window sill near the old Dillard's building. Lunge seemed well. Look for the others to follow suit soon. Scott took this image of Lunge on May 21st.
HarveyonTue 26 May 2009 - 11:02:48
Today is the first day that the eyases have gone ledge walking. The Terminal Tower has long and deep continuous ledges on the 12th floor. The young Peregrines have left the nest tray and are exploring the ledges. SW and Buckeye will feed them wherever they happen to be or the young will gather around the adult for feeding. They might return to the gravel nest tray for the night or they may not. Needless to say it will be difficult from here on out to keep them in the close-up camera.
HarveyonFri 15 May 2009 - 14:57:13
The crew from the Ohio Division of Wildlife presided over the banding of the eyases this morning, May 8th. The color bands this year are black on red. Here are the band numbers, sexes and names:
'Strike' Female 1687-30212 34/H
'Lunge' Male 1126-06620 70/B
'Cirrus' Male 1126-06621 71/B
The names were suggested by the schools participating in the Raptors in the City project and selected by Ohio Division of Wildlife personnel. We will post images later today.
HarveyonFri 08 May 2009 - 11:48:45
Scott Wright caught this amazing photo of an apparent Big Brown Bat being served up for a meal with a Blue Jay still in the pantry! We tend to regard Peregrines as exclusively bird hunters, but according to Tom Cade, dean of falcon biologists, there are numerous records of them visiting the entrance to major bat caverns to prey on bats and they regularly hunt flying foxes on tropical islands in the Pacific.
HarveyonWed 06 May 2009 - 09:47:23
The Ohio Division of Wildlife is planning to band the eyases on Friday morning, 5/8/09 around 10:00 am. We will try to have a camera linked to the website to post images of the banding. Keep an eye on the Falconcam for updates. Raptors in the City, an on-line curriculum for classroom based wildlife observation, will be providing the Ohio Division of Wildlife with suggestions for names.
It is very impressive to see how the youngsters have grown. The unhatched egg provides an interesting scale to compare growth since all of the young hatched out of similar eggs only two and half weeks ago. It also interesting to compare sibling size. In the first week after hatch the largest chick is usually the first to hatch. After two weeks the young catch up and differences in size can be attributed to sex. Females are generally one third larger than males and that difference is readily detectable by banding age.
HarveyonTue 05 May 2009 - 09:09:12
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