Thanks, farmerman. Wish I coulda been there to see that too.
BTW, as nesting season draws to a close, I'm rating the birds. In parenting I'll give a 9.5 (nobody's perfect). Housekeeping I'm giving a -3. I confess that I get a little woozy when I look at the disgusting mess.
Roberta, the wind and the rain will eventually take care of the mess.
I remember reading an article written by a man who had been watching New Yorkers picking up their dog's poop and dropping it into plastic bags. He commented that one of the most biodegradable substances on earth was being preserved in plastic which would last for hundreds of years.
I'm still glad they, most of them anyway, pick up after their dogs.
According to a short piece in New York Magazine Intelligencer Section, this has been a bumper year for NYC red tail hawks: 35 nests in the city (5 in Manhattan) and most of the mating pairs are producing three and four chicks instead of the usual two.
The Audubon Society is trying to produce a protocol for accommmodating inept fledglings.
One bird left in PA, just watching the trains roll by.
The last one for this year
Joe(be back here in the Spring)Nation
getting my power washer ready.
Saw two birds today. Can't tell whether it's the empty nester parents or a parent and child. But there was definitely some dissension. One pecked the other!!
Shocking.
@Roberta,
I'm getting ready for the new season.
Roberta, are you ready? JoeNation? Farmerman?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/nyregion/thecity/15falc.html?fta=y
Is it that time of the year already? Time certainly does fly when you're having fun.
Thanks for the heads up, Beth.
Ill have to go to the Pa DEP falcon cam site (I think you can just enter PA DEP falcon cam into google and itll come up). I think its a wee bit early yet but Ill go see. You wait here, Ill be back.
@farmerman,
Wow, they have the camera on and I think I see eyes in the light. Maybe just some aerial rats (pigeons)
I usually don't look until St. Patrick's day.
http://www.55water.com/falcons/
Camera is not on in New Yawk.
Joe(soon though)Nation
@msolga,
HERES THE PA CAM< FOR THOSE WHO DIDNT SAVE
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/falcon/
Nothing doing in New York.
Joe(falconwise that is)Nation
@Joe Nation,
AGGGHHH, somebody shot the TV camera in HArrisburg.
I hope it aint another budget cut.
@Joe Nation,
http://www.55water.com/falcons/
Camera still off in New York.
Shall we try to find other cameras we can peer through?
Joe(Voyeurs of America United)Nation
Just checked the PA site. Nobody home at the moment, but the camera appears operatinal. And there are a few feathers around--signs of life.
