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Old January 31st, 2007, 06:56 AM
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Peregrine Falcons?

Hello from Hamilton!

Does anyone follow the peregrine falcons in Ontario? Here is the Hamilton Matriarch Madame X & her new mate in 2006 Surge!

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Old January 31st, 2007, 01:48 PM
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Gorgeous pictures! The Peregrine is an awesome bird - we have them here - in BC and they are awesome to watch!
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Old January 31st, 2007, 04:00 PM
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Cool! I'm not sure we have any here.. Never seen one outside of the Ecomuseum.
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Old January 31st, 2007, 04:52 PM
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Winston,WOW thay are beautiful!!
I've never seen any but I have Hawks coming in to my backyard every winter.
One is really large,the other smallish,but they are stunning,unfortunately they are here to kill and eat the birds at my feeders,but it is the way of nature,they too have to survive.
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Old January 31st, 2007, 05:04 PM
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Prin.....You never know...there are not alot of them...but there is a pair at the Crowne Hotel in Ottawa...(I think that was the name!) and they are Conner and Diana.(it was previously Horizon )..They had one clutch this past spring and it did not survive long after fledging..He was an amazing bird named Odyssey...He flew into one of the large buildings and had to be euthanized...They are a very interesting bird to learn about..Watch out though! I became addicted to the live web cams!

Here is an amazing pic of "Aldora" from Buffalo...She is a fledgling from 2006...Once again she had a tough time and ended up being rescued and taken to a rehab facility..She is working now with a Master Falconer to be hopefully released back to the wild...The unfortunate part is that her Mom "Beauty" never had the ability to really teach her to hunt on her own?? So if the falconer can get her well and teach her to hunt...all should go well...

I have some bragging rights with her....I named her! They had a contest to name them and 2 of my names were chosen....(okay I will keep bragging!) Aldora translates to "winged gift" ...and I also named a very tiny male falcon her brother Mika..which translates to "a winged gift"...Mika was born quite a few days after his brother and 2 sisters...they never exoected him to survive..but boy was he a fighter!! What a gorgeous bird he turned out to be....Anyway I guess enough bragging already!

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Old January 31st, 2007, 10:22 PM
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We have a pair here in London. Since 1996 they have been nesting on the Canada Trust Tower. When the wee ones are learning to fly each year the good people of London go on Peregrine watch and stand by to make sure traffic comes to a complete stop if one should happen to land on the road.
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Old April 18th, 2007, 03:50 PM
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So has anybody been watching Madame X on the web cam. Winston gave us this link for the Hamilton Peregrine Falcons http://www.hamiltonnature.org/hamfalcam.html
It says that she has four eggs. Can't wait to see the little ones! I tune in several times a day for a glimps of her.
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Old June 5th, 2007, 09:31 PM
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Hamilton Falcon Chicks

Sadly 2 of the 4 chicks died last weekend. They did the banding today of the 2 remaining chicks which are both females. One has a bacteria so they sent her to the Ontario Vet College in Guelph Ontario. Let's hope for the best for them.

There is a clip of the chicks on this site.

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Old June 5th, 2007, 09:45 PM
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Hamilton Falcons

Winston, are going to see them on the 20th?
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Old June 5th, 2007, 09:51 PM
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Red Tailed Hawks

During the winter months I usually get red tailed hawks trying to catch the birds at my feeders. One caught a morning dove one day.
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Old June 6th, 2007, 06:20 AM
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Sandra,sorry to hear about the babies:sad:
Hopefully the other two will survive
I too have different kind of Hawks coming to my backyard in the winter,they've caught pigeons,doves and
other birds.
I always know when they are around,there will be no birds at my feeder,it's strange how the birds know there is danger in the sky
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Old June 6th, 2007, 07:57 AM
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Well we had banding day yesterday for the 2 remaining chicks...what drama it was..it began with the parents fighting at the man climbing into the nest to take their babies away..

Then one of the chicks decided to try to flee the nest up on a ledge very high on a busy street...all turned out well after waiting quite awhile to retrieve the 1 remaining....turns out we have a sick falcon chick and 1 healthy....2 passed away earlier in the week and appear to possibly have the same bacterial infection one of them has now..so we have 1 chhick all alone in the nest and another that is being looked at in Vet Clinic in Guelph..

We are waiting to see if it will be returned to the nest in the next day or so.

Cindy

P.S The blue footed bird is the sick one...they should have bright yellow feet!!
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