Peregrine Falcons will be back in 2013!!
Some of the bugs and details are being worked out, but the Peregrine Falcon webcams will be up and running again this year. In fact, they are up and running right now. All we need is some spring weather and a couple of birds. The Peregrine Falcons are around, they apparently overwintered at the Capitol again this year.
Thanks to Troy Kroeger for his work on this project and also thanks to our collaborators down at the Nebraska State Capitol for their assistance.
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Awesome bird, I took a picture of one in washington state just before my return home flight to hawaii. We also had two of these birds residing on top of our office building in downtown Honolulu. They’re every where and amazing to watch in their everyday lives, even when they’re just lounging around. Very interesting creatures indeed. Great video!
I saw Mama in hte nest box Monday morning scraping and sitting and then she hung out on it sunning herself for quite awhile
This morning I saw her flying around the building. Havent see Papa lately though.
Yes, the birds are around and the are occasionally at the nest box. Last year, the pair had laid an egg by 26 March!
http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/blogs/2012/03/hark-egg-expect-next/
Interesting to see in the photo all the green on the trees by that date in 2012. I suspect once we have a little more favorable weather, activity will pick up.
Eat every squirrel. Thank you falcon.
Saw one Sat. morning in back yard drinking rain water in northeast Lincoln.
Wow, two birds finally here together this morning (3-15). Hopefully things will start to get interesting.
Do we know who is back at the State Capitol Building? Has anyone had a clear look at the birds’ band numbers?
The male since 2002 has been a 2001 wild-hatch from Des Moines, Iowa.
He was onsite in 2002 with a female named “Angel” from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In 2005, he paired up with a 2004 wild-hatched female from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada named “Alley”.
In the way of things peregrine, Angel is the full-sister & nestmate of Princess who is Alley’s mom.
If it sounds like I am hoping that Alley will be returning, you would be right. I am the Project Coordinator of the Manitoba Peregrine Recovery Project and we have spent many hours enjoying Alley, 19K and their offspring via webcam over the years!
We do not know who is back just yet at the Capitol. We hope we can get some bands read via the webcam in the near future.
Dear Mr. Jorgensen,
I am a PhD student at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague and I have been working on birds. Recently I found an interest in webcams filming birds all over the world. As a part of my project I have been looking at the peregrine falcon nest monitored by your web camera.
To be able to get some results that would fit to my project I would like to ask you for help.
I would like to know the orientation of the nest or web camera (North – 0/360, South – 180, West – 270, East – 90 – in degrees). Please could you spend some time to describe the orientation of the web camera? The closer view – right web cam would be great.
(for example: The web cam is looking north-east 50°, etc..)For me it is important to know the angle.
I would be very grateful for your information.
Thank you very much
All the best
Tomas Kunca
The web cam is facing “northeast” approximately 045 to 050 degrees just as your example states.
Tomas,
Did you also happen to notice the live web cam in Omaha, Nebraska at http://falcons.woodmen.org/falcon_cam.cfm ? That nest is approximately miles northeast of the Lincoln, Nebraska nest.
The nest box in Omaha is oriented essentially north-south which means the web cam is looking north-northwest approximately 345°.
Great fun to watch both nests and I check them almost every day.