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ON / Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel - 2008-21
carly:
Madame X and Surge are in the house ;D
carly:
Hamilton cam just came online! Quest from Rochester has been tracked here as well in the past few days! Will she challenge long time resident Madame X or will she continue on home to Rochester!
http://falcons.hamiltonnature.org/
carly:
2010 NESTING SEASON
Cam will be going live shortly with Madame X and Etobicokes own Surge still in the vicinity :D
GETTING READY FOR ANOTHER YEAR AT THE SHERATON!
March 3, 2010 - Happy New Year FalconFans!
While 2010 is already a couple of months old, the biological new year - Spring - is just around the corner. Madame X and Surge again spent the winter in their familiar haunts in downtown Hamilton. HCPP volunteers frequently see the pair on the Standard Life Building next door to the Sheraton nest site. Madame X is back for her tenth year and Surge for his fifth season.
As the days grow longer and the breeding season approaches, the peregrines' territorial instincts are on the rise, making them more ready to defend their turf from potential intruders. Local construction cranes and Red-tailed Hawks have already been warned. We are on the lookout for courting and nesting behaviour and expect to see eggs in late March or early April. The falcon camera will be activated in the next few weeks, once we get telephone lines and computer communications set up.
In 2009 Madame X and Surge hatched four chicks, Dixon (m), Durand (f), Gleig (f) and Strathcona (f). Although there were two rescues during the fledging period, all four chicks fledged successfully. You can read more about their exploits in the History section.
Madame X was hatched on a bridge on Pennsylvania Route 309, the Cross-Valley Expressway in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. Banded as a hatchling on 7 June 1999, she was known to the falcon watchers in Northeast PA as 'Runaround Sue', a name suggested after she was found running along the expressway guide wall one morning. We are keeping the folks in Pennsylvania posted on Madame X's progress.
Hatched and banded in Etobicoke in 2002, Surge spent at least part of the 2004-2005 seasons trying to establish a nest at the Burlington Lift Bridge. In 2006 he replaced the male at the Sheraton nest and has been in Hamilton since.
Many birds exhibit a trait called 'site fidelity'. If at least one of a pair that used a nest site in the previous year return, and if there have been no significant physical changes to disturb either the nest itself or the birds generally, they will use the same nest site over and over again, year after year. Peregrine Falcons are known for site fidelity. This will be Madame X's ninth year in Hamilton and Surge's fourth, and the sixteenth year the same nest site on the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel has been used.
Falconwatch volunteers have started raising funds for the 2010 season. While Falconwatch does not cost tons of money, there are expenses to be covered. If you would like to help Falconwatch 2010 by making a tax deductible donation, please click on the 'Make a Donation' link above. Thank you.
To read FalconWatch Reports from previous years, click on the History button above.
Thank you to all our visitors and supporters for your ongoing encouragement
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Alison on July 24, 2009, 20:29 ---
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on July 24, 2009, 18:05 ---Sure looks like number 4 at the far end to me! (based on relative size not colour)
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Thank you for confirming that, TPC! I thought they were all juvies, but it's harder to tell with the distant ones when they are soaking wet. According to the site only three had been seen. It's great to see all four!
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I could certainly be wrong, but sure does look like a fourth juvie - in my experience, the adults know enough to get out and stay out of the rain, I rarely see them wet unless they are on eggs/chicks ...
Alison:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on July 24, 2009, 18:05 ---Sure looks like number 4 at the far end to me! (based on relative size not colour)
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Thank you for confirming that, TPC! I thought they were all juvies, but it's harder to tell with the distant ones when they are soaking wet. According to the site only three had been seen. It's great to see all four!
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