Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
MN / Oak Park - 2009-10
kittenface:
Allison I didn't have the honor of watching your beautiful Mae but she was a beauty
Thank you for your loving wonderful pictures and words.
Alison:
Remembering Mae
Tomorrow it will be six years since we lost beloved Mae, the legendary matriarch of the King Plant.
Mae nested at the King Plant from 1990 to 2003, raising 37 young during those years (including three foster chicks). A daughter of MF-1, one of Bob Anderson's falcons, she made an incalculable contribution to the restoration of the peregrine population, and her legacy continues. For instance, her daughter Lolo is still the resident female at Horizon Milling (first egg laid yesterday), and her last daughter, Speedy, is at the Colonnade Building in Minneapolis, to the best of my knowledge.
She was a proud, fierce, beautiful and most courageous falcon, and she will always be remembered.
I hope her descendants will continue to grace the peregrine population for many generations to come. Mae was one of the truly great falcons. Her mother, MF-!, was also the mother of Maud, to whom some of the Winnipeg peregrines can trace their ancestry.
Mae With her mate and chicks in 2000
Surveying her domain in 2002
Mae at sunrise Mae in silhouette
The gentle side of Mae: with her daughter Knockout in 2002
Alison:
At last! Belinda was at the nest today. Now we just need to see Brent there too.
allikat:
Uh Oh! I hope Belinda and Brent are okay!
carly:
Oh yikes, yeah that might keep them away. :-\ I hope they are okay too!
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