They're back. The Falcons of Water Street, New York.

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@Joe Nation,

Good for you, Joe.

Someone may have checked, but nobody fixed.

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@Joe Nation,

http://rlv.zcache.com/i_heart_joe_t_shirt-p235394512838726821cpmj_210.jpg

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wass at website for NEW YAWK ?

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Flight in PA.

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Four of the five babies are practicing flying. One crash landed and couldn't be saved.

Wondering if I'll ever get to see the falcons of Water Street, not that there's anything wrong with the PA boids. Just a mini salute to the title of the thread.

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@Roberta,

Water Street hasn't a clue. The camera is working IN the building, they said. (OoooKAY) humph.

Up on my rooftop Friday I saw an insistant crow fledgling with his mom. They both disappeared after she fed him something.

Joe(New York is full of birds. Some of them have feathers.)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

Seasons over Joe. The kids in PA are fishing already. Theyll be driving soon.

Sounds like someone has "uninvited" the Water ST family

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Be here next year... .

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The peregrine falcons have shown up early in HArrisburg this year. The DEP is all verhootzed to try to turn on their "falcon cam" at the nest box. Maybe by tomorrow theyll have the box and the perch all hosed off and cleaned off. (The big problem is having all the bird **** go tumbling down 20 floors to the street below)

I blame it all on global warming

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Thanks for the heads up, fm. Very early in the season. You could be right.

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So early!
Joe(must want dibs on the best sticks.)Nation

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@Joe Nation,

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2010 Nesting Season

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The adult peregrines are entering this year's nesting season. Soon, we can expect to see them greet each other at the ledge and exhibit breeding behavior. Much of this courtship seems to take place at other locations nearby.

This courtship behavior includes food offerings by the male and displays of flight and hunting skills. The male exhibits these skills seemingly to demonstrate his ability to be a good provider.

Typically, the first egg arrives at during the last week of March. Last year, the first egg arrived on March 21.

This will be the eleventh nesting season for this female peregrine falcon. The male is entering into his sixth nesting season. Carson, the original male at this site was injured on Dec. 16 2004; wildlife management staff decided it unwise to return him to the wild as his hunting skills were compromised by the injury.

This was the first new from the Falcon PAge of PA DEP. ANYBODY need the Url? .

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@farmerman,

I wouldn't mind a rerun of the URL, farmerman. Save me from scrolling back.

Thanks.

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@Roberta,

HERE YA GO SWEETUMS.
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/falcon/ Apparently theyve got the whole cameras up and running . The male is bringing food to his mate. (Beats dating)

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@farmerman,

Thanks, kid. I checked out the site. I saw a train.

Sounds exactly like dating. A guy gives you something to eat in the hope that it will lead to a mating ritual.

Hey, guys. I don't eat rodents--or pigeons. It's a good thing I'm not a falcon. Some poor slob would be flapping around looking for an egg cream and oreos. What are the chances?

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@Roberta,

I never got the name egg cream when theres neither egg nor cream in there. WAs it all marketing?

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

I never got the name egg cream when theres neither egg nor cream in there. WAs it all marketing?

fm, I suspect that many, many moons ago, egg creams had an egg and cream. Times change. It wasn't all that long ago that the Second Avenue deli was on Second Avenue.

I check the site. Still haven't seen a boid.

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Here.

Quote:

http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/NYEggCreamHistory.htm

More than a person could ever need to know about Egg Creams. No egg, no cream, not ever, no kidding.

I did learn something from this. My father used to say that the Egg Cream was invented in the Depression because people didn't have eggs or cream to spare.

Joe(I learned my father was wrong.)Nation
PS
NY camera still off line. Arrgh.

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Another bubble burst, Joe. No egg, no cream. Ever.

Saw a boid at the PA site. Eating something that once was alive. Very handsome bird. The meal, no so much.

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