AB / Calgary - U of Calgary - 2009-16

[RCF]

Two eggs here now!!

[Kinderchick]

Hooray for Callie! I guess she'll be sticking close to "home" for a while now.

[RCF]

Callie and her egg.   
An egg was first noticed at 7:30 AM MDT, April 19.

http://youtu.be/RWhk9ZrL9eE

[RCF]

There is an egg in the nest.  

 

[Kinderchick]

Callie sure has been busy in her scrape this evening, pecking the pebbles and turning round and round.

[Elaine L]

Thanks for keeping us informed about this site, Kinderchick.  I hope we will see eggs here soon.

[Kinderchick]

A falcon keeps pacing in and out of a scrape in the nestbox, back and forth from scrape to nest ledge, occasionally chirping. Not sure what this means. Does this mean she's getting ready to lay an egg? When she's standing in the scrape she keeps looking down between her legs. Don't know what peregrine behaviour is like, just before an egg is laid. Never seen a live egg laying.

[Kinderchick]

Falcon in the nestbox working on an enormous scrape right now. Just moved to the ledge and is now calling out.

[Kinderchick]

Female has been ID'd as "Callie", the female from last year. She can be seen often in the nestbox making a scrape, while the male has been providing her with food. Attempts are being made to ID the male. They are not certain yet if it is "Gary", the male from last year.

[Kinderchick]

Looks like there's a scrape in the middle of the nestbox today!

[RCF]

The sound comes on about 1:09........ you may want to turn it down a bit. The falcon does a lot of chupping and bowing but I have yet to see two at the same time. 

http://youtu.be/X9pQNT8dgxs

[RCF]

Video of falcon preening - http://youtu.be/uBbJp1JLyqk

[Kinderchick]

As of March 28th, 2 falcons have been spotted on the nest ledge, possibly re-affirming their territory. Webcam reading of the leg bands has almost positively confirmed that the female is the resident adult from last year. Male has not yet been ID'd.

[Kinderchick]

I checked this website last week and the webcam was not yet up. Must have just gone up recently. Have sent them an e-mail asking if their PF's have returned yet. Will post here when I hear back from them. Or maybe we will see the birds on the webcam before that! LOL!

[The Peregrine Chick]

2012 NESTING SEASON

Checked out the links to make sure they were up and operating (they are) but nobody in the nestbox and it doesn't look like anyone has been there though there was a small white downy feather caught in the pebbles.  The website home page is still for 2011 so either someone is home and the website hasn't been updated yet or no one is home yet.  Either way, the cam appears to be running so its just a matter of waiting now.