FrankGood morning to our beautiful falcons
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Here's to the fiercest mum in town
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Looks like dinner's been delivered
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Mum on guard. Going to get sunny today, but 31 tomorrow, which will be way worse for them. These guys love cold weather.
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Keep moving down the other end babies, there's shade there!
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It's predicted to get to 31 today, hopefully they can find enough shade to hide in.
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There's always one that's a troublemaker
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Shade has arrived and so has lunch
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Good morning falcons!
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Dinner's arrived. Babies show no sign of going back to the original nest as yet.
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Two babies have managed to get into the far nest, where they can get some shade from the sun.
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One baby still can't climb up into the nest so their other siblings are just staying with it for now.
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Breakfast time. First the two in the nest got food, then the third one. It's been confirmed there are two girls and one boy, so maybe the boy's the one who can't climb up yet as he's a bit smaller.
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More food being delivered.
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White fluff starting to come off, you can see a hint of dark feathers on the wing tips now.
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Sometimes all three babies hang on the ledge, other times two still climb into the nest. Third sticks to the ledge.
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All three babies can climb up into the nest now. Growing fast.
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Good morning to these three fluffy murder chickens
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Still in the toddler stage of sticking close. They'll be teens soon and wanting distance from their siblings.
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They're down the other end, closer to the camera now. You can see how much they've grown.
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They really commit to flop rests
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All by myseeeeellllffffff 🎶
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Reunited and it feeeeeels so gooooood 🎶
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Look how big they're getting
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Food delivery. The urge to flap the wings is very strong.
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Perching in the morning sun, they're young adults already.
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Awful lot of flapping action happening right now
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Night time and the babies are watching the city below. Mum's just turned up to check on them.
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If you're not cheering with joy when that murder chicken takes flight, well I don't know what I can say.
One down. Two to go.
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The two left have no shame and are snatching food from mum's beak. They are quite capable of feeding themselves now.
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Two baby peregrine falcons survey their world
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All by myseeeellllfffffffffffffffffff 🎶
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I'm fine, I don't need anyone anyway. Gonna snooze on this ledge, it's peaceful.
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Ahhhhhh ain't got nooobody! Nobody cares for me, nobody.... 🎶
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Mate, I don't think mum's bringing you food any more. And once you finish nibbling on the leftovers there, you're going to have to move out.
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His sisters turned up to see what he was up to but he pretended to be fine on his own.
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He's gone. Good luck out there, baby! 😭
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❄️SnowyIn🇨🇦❄️@VWDasher uh, oh. I hope it realizes this quickly.
@SnowyCA Oh they do eventually! I think this is the last born, so was a day or two behind his sisters. Just a little behind in development. Will probably leave the nest today or tomorrow. Mum will be doing flybys too, with food, to lure him out.
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I wasn't aware the mom would do flybys with food. Very interesting, and nice to know they don't simply abandon the youngsters.
Thanks. : )
I wasn't aware the mom would do flybys with food. Very interesting, and nice to know they don't simply abandon the youngsters.
Thanks. : )
@SnowyCA Oh both parents are out there, flying around and trying to tempt the kids into flying! They can be seen from the ground but they are pretty high up. People do do the occasional spottings in the city of them. Parents are still very close, checking on them, at this stage.
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They are wonderful parents.
Do birds often nest in that building?
@SnowyCA just these guys! They've been doing this since the nineties as far as I know. Crazy buggers.
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Since the nineties? Really?😮 Amazing!
Since the nineties? Really?😮 Amazing!
Misinformation-Superhighwayman@SnowyCA @VWDasher Same window ledge, same time of the year, every year.
Seems that Peregrine Falcons can adapt incredibly well to the city environment. I imagine it's like they've setup on a cliff with a good up-draught and some shelter from the weather, and nearby there's a river and plentiful food (mostly pigeons?) for them to hunt.
Conveniently, now there's a nesting box and a couple of live webcams to show different angles: https://youtube.com/@367collinsfalcons4
Seems that Peregrine Falcons can adapt incredibly well to the city environment. I imagine it's like they've setup on a cliff with a good up-draught and some shelter from the weather, and nearby there's a river and plentiful food (mostly pigeons?) for them to hunt.
Conveniently, now there's a nesting box and a couple of live webcams to show different angles: https://youtube.com/@367collinsfalcons4
Thanks for this.
It's quite interesting that they settled in for the long run.
I've heard that they are quite adaptable,even read articles about another bird of prey, hawks, and how they use traffic lights to help hunt for food.
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Ottawa also has had a falcon watch since the late 1990s.
Unfortunately, their access to some of the downtown locations was lost.
Many of the downtown buildings where nesting was happening were federal.
Also, people poisoning pigeons affected the birth rate.
It looks like the group was following a pair at the Canadian Revenue Agency Data Centre Building last spring - again not a location where a public webcam can be set up. 
@AlsoPaisleyCat @DamienWise @SnowyCA yeah we've had one baby die from poisoned pigeon one year, sadly.
The building co who own this building set up the webcam some year back, which is very kind of them.
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Reading that first sentence out of the context of the thread just woke me right up.
Reading that first sentence out of the context of the thread just woke me right up.
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It would indeed be rather startling.
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We have had nesting peregrine falcons in downtown Rochester NY for decades, too. For many years they nested atop a ledge on the Kodak office bldg. More recently the nest has been on the Times Square bldg. I follow them every spring on a webcam. This year, Nova and Neander began with three eggs in late March, and all three youngsters fledged the first week of June. As we go into winter here, I've enjoyed the touch of spring the Collins Street brood has brought me!
We have had nesting peregrine falcons in downtown Rochester NY for decades, too. For many years they nested atop a ledge on the Kodak office bldg. More recently the nest has been on the Times Square bldg. I follow them every spring on a webcam. This year, Nova and Neander began with three eggs in late March, and all three youngsters fledged the first week of June. As we go into winter here, I've enjoyed the touch of spring the Collins Street brood has brought me!
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