Bird Cams Around the World

CJ, I think. He was up there a lot today.

An hour ago CJ was on the box ledge and Red Girl was on the left roof top corner as you face the Brandywine Building. They're both off somewhere now. New yellow-billed cuckoo and flicker remains.

Thanks for the report, Greg. Glad to hear they're both in the area.

One was just in the box (Red Girl, I think, visible on my desk top), while the other perched on the box ledge (CJ, I think, just visible out my window over three blocks away). They're still getting along, although sometimes it seems like they are second in each others' affections, after the nest box which is number 1 for each of them.

Glad to hear they are around this nasty weather day. Was on Rt.495 this morning, and the weather was so rainy and foggy. hoping they were safe.

One of the falcons is on the box ledge now; can't guess which from my office window view. It looked like Red Girl was up there yesterday afternoon and CJ earlier this morning.

No new prey items next to the building yesterday or today, but there is a freshly hollowed-out red-bellied woodpecker on a ledge around the corner from my 6th floor office, maybe 50 feet from where I'm typing this at my desk. Not a place that a Cooper's hawk would choose to pluck and eat prey, so I'm giving credit to one of the falcons.

Looks like Red Girl is on the box ledge now, facing out over the Citty and looking big even blocks away from my office window.

They're both perched on adjoining ledges to the right of the box.

I'm not thinking too fast today but something kind of interesting just dawned on me.

As I noted yesterday morning, there was a red-bellied woodpecker carcass outside a window around the corner from my office.

Yesterday afternooon I saw a crow fly by my office window and heard it start cawing. I went to the window and looked up, and there was one of the peregrines low overhead – maybe the same one that got the woodpecker. It flew out of sight around the corner toward where the woodpecker was yesterday morning.

I didn't think to check right away, but by the end of the day yesterday the woopecker was gone from the space outside our office window. Today there were a few black and white woodpecker feathers on the sidewalk and garage roof downwind from the Brandywine Building. Maybe a falcon got hungry yesterday afternoon, came back and fetched the woodpecker home for leftovers.

Anyway, I won't charge the falcons with a new red-bellied woodpecker today.

So maybe that windowsill is one of their food caches?

Hurray!! Red Girl in the box @ 3;00pm.


Edit: At 3:06 she's gone!!!

3:10 someone back again.

Just brought the cam up to capture a pic, but nobody is there.

It would be great (very convenient for me) if they start using it that way, although I would get even less work done than I do now.

I wouldn't get much work done if I worked somewhere that I could watch falcons all day!

OK, I'm FINALLY adding a comment/reply (my 2 cents worth) on the Wilmington website (even though this is 1 of the 10 BCAW sites that I have watched/monitored EVERY DAY since I signed up back in early January of 2010). Now, don’t laugh because I am being completely honest when I write this (and I KNOW all of you will understand and can relate!!!!!). It's hard enough that I have the Lansing (Michigan) Board of Water and Light's (LBWL) peregrine falcons webcams that I can view and refresh every 15 minutes (plus the live feeds that Dina Maneval, a.k.a., Lansing's "falcon lady" Blesses me with), but I've got a fellow State Employee that monitors, follows, takes pictures of and reports on a pair of red tailed hawks that have nested in downtown Lansing for the past handful of years, which 2 years ago I started watching and following faithfully/daily/regularly. Now, mind you, this part is up close and personal including one instance (of many) where the adult male red tailed hawk landed 5 inches from my big toe (after it flew directly over my head and shoulder) and snagged/captured a chipmunk right in front of me), and then there's the WONDERFUL and SPECTACULAR BCAW website to peek at as often as I can. To make a long story short and with the above being said (written), I can promise you, I would never get any real (what I'm being paid for) work done if I had a nest of any sort right outside of my window. So, KUDOS to you Greg (and anyone else who has a nest site within viewing distance of their office) and a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who contributes to each of the BCAW websites (no matter how big or how small the contribution is). None of us could do this on our own and enjoy as much variety, details, play-by-play (day-by-day), of all the different species, different cities, etc., if it weren’t for the collaborative effort, and drive (AND LOVE) of all of these beautiful creatures we have been blessed with.

Cristine! We are a very special group on here, in love with our beautiful Falcon's and other creatures. I love and believe your avatar! Hope we see more of you.