HARRISBURG ~ NOVEMBER 2010, PART I

REENIE · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:57 pm **Posts:** 19893

LIL DAD ON THE STICK NOW OR IS THAT NG? LOOKS LIKE NG NOW.

REENIE · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:57 pm **Posts:** 19893

WELL, IT WAS NG ON THE STICK AND GUESS WHERE LIL DAD WAS? HE WAS ON THE CAM PERCH PREENING! CAN'T BELIEVE SHE ACTUALLY LET HIM ON THE CAM PERCH, I BET HE WAS SO HAPPY TO BE BACK THERE. THEY ARE REALLY COMING ALONG HERE :-)

Faith · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:37 am

What a great way to start the day. Thanks so much Reenie, you did alot of watching already today. They are a great couple. Well, just like all the others we fall in love with!! :leavestup:

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:50 am

How fun to read about Lil Dad's hunting routine this morning.

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:24 am

Thanks Reenie for the morning observations. You know, I've always wondered what the success rate is for hunting. That's what it all boils down to I guess, the hunting skills of the male to provide for the female and young. Lil Dad is always dragging something in for the babies. Never had to anxiously wait and wonder if the chicks are going to be fed here like at other nests I've watched. :cheer

catwoman · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:03 am

I read somewhere that Birds of Prey are only successful in about 20 percent of their attempts. So they only manage to catch their prey 1 out of 5 times!

Good to hear about NG & Lil Dad's routine this morning--thanks, Reenie!

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:32 am

Interesting catwoman, thanks for the info.

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:16 am

Little Dad ? He was in the scrape in the previous frame, but couldn't get it in time.

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:35 am

A lot of moving around, wonder if something is going on here. Who is on the shield?

Well, they are gone now.

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:25 pm

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:52 pm

one more shot and I am off. I guess everything is ok, just seemed like a lot of activity going on. But impossible to tell on stills.

Dotty · **Joined:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:47 pm **Posts:** 158

Hooray, I was so happy to see a peregrine illustration on the cover of the iPad app iBirdProHD - our cover bird :)

Update: well I wasn't accurate; and Jane is correct (see following replies) This is an Aplomado Falcon (it's listed in the app); well at least there's a falcon on the cover! and a beautiful falcon.

REENIE · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:57 pm **Posts:** 19893

SOMEONE SITTING OVER BY THE COLUMN

catwoman · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:46 pm

Beautiful bird picture, Dotty! What kind of falcon is that supposed to be? Looks like a peregrine except for the white over the eye. Juvies have that white, but they're brown. My bird book shows a prairie falcon with the white over the eye, but they're also brown.

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:52 pm

action shot.

REENIE · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:57 pm **Posts:** 19893

BOTH THERE NOW :-)

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:59 pm

Only one there now, the camera took so long to switch back.

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 4:03 pm

oops, still two.

Jane · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 4:11 pm

Dotty and others, the bird is an Aplomado Falcon. They are residents in Mexico, Central America and down into at least northern South America. There is an reintroduction program going on in south Texas to try to restore the former breeding population there. I've been lucky enough to see these beauties on several birding trips, including Laguna Atascosa NWR in the vicinity of South Padre Island in Texas.

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 4:20 pm

Well that is a cute little falcon with great coloring. Thanks for the info Jane, lucky you to have seen one.

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