OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16

[Kinderchick]

Didn't see any birds on the ledge or in the nest box when I looked today. But you're right, jadoo... the nest box looks clean as a whistle! Unlike the nest box in Orange, NSW, Australia! 

[jadoo]

...she took a bit of a break, but is now back at it with a vengeance - that nest box is getting cleaned within an inch of it's life!!

[jadoo]

...Durand in the box this morning, doing a lot of scraping, cleaning and fussing - even scraping the walls with her beak, and pulling at a couple of marks in the wood...

[Pam]

Managed to catch the preening on Friday, very nice!

[Kinderchick]

Aw... No bird anywhere in sight, when I finally have a chance to look.

[jadoo]

...whoever is on the ledge right now has been assiduously preening for the last 15-20 minutes, which makes me think that they have just finished breakfast...

[Kinderchick]

...must be cool in columbus - whoever is on the ledge keeps lifting on foot off of it, to warm up, perhaps?  I recall seeing this behaviour in the spring as well...

And here I thought that he/she was doing the "Hokey Pokey"!

[jadoo]

...must be cool in columbus - whoever is on the ledge keeps lifting on foot off of it, to warm up, perhaps?  I recall seeing this behaviour in the spring as well...

[Kinderchick]

Looks like it's pouring rain there too, like here in Winnipeg... thought I might see a bird hunkered down in the nestbox, but no luck.

[jadoo]

Durand is the one that 'drops' off the ledge    She's a gorgeous falcon and strong like her momma!   

...thanks, carly - I don't watch quite enough to easily distinguish between the two - i'm pleasantly surprised I noticed the differences in the take-off styles!

[jadoo]

trooper just tried to take off, and aborted it, then went for a run along the ledge, popped into the nestbox for a minute (couldn't see anything, the nestbox cam wouldn't come up again  ) and now somebody's taken off -  and somebody else has emerged from the nestbox!  Crap - missed it all...

[jadoo]

...Trooper on the ledge near the camera right now;  Durand (I'm assuming) aborted a landing earlier - it looks very windy there this morning...

[Linder]

I check in on this site quite regularly through this link: http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/index.php
Scroll down to US Peregrines and click on Trooper and Durand.

If you want to see videos and hear sounds of them talking with each other on the ledge and in the nest box without actually catching them at the right time on their site, you may want to check the link out.

[Kinderchick]

Thank you, jadoo and carly! I will try to see if I can tell the difference btw the 2 birds, from your descriptions.

[carly]

Durand is the one that 'drops' off the ledge    She's a gorgeous falcon and strong like her momma!   Earlier this Spring she was hanging out in Cleveland near where Rocky and Lara (my girl) are nesting on a bridge and she got into a scrap with him when she tried to land on their nest ledge.  She defended herself admirably for a then 1 year old falcon.  

Chad & Chris on CMNH were lucky enough to get photos of the incident.
Scrolll down for photos:  http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?48559.30

Here is the banding info for Durand:

Black 32 over Black X banded Pefa was produced at the Hamilton Sheraton hotel nest site last year in 2009, banded on June 2nd as a female at approx. 26 days old, weighing 1014 grams (empty crop) and was named Durand.

Her parents were Madam X and Surge - (Surge was hatched and produced at the Etobicoke - Bloor and Islington (Sun Life Centre) nest site in 2002.