WILMINGTON ~ AUGUST-DECEMBER 2010

Greg Inskip · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:47 pm **Posts:** 1081

No nest at my office, just a feeding post, and maybe only a onetime post at that. I can look out my window at the nest and see the birds a few blocks away. That's distraction enough, along with the cam.

Catbird · **Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 3:05 pm

Christine - Good to see your post here.

Greg - I think if I were working at your office, I'd be looking out the windows all the time, hoping to see a falcon fly by. :wink:

Faith · **Posted:** Sat Oct 09, 2010 10:49 pm

I'd be looking too, as we already watch the skies up the river from Wilmington. It's hard not to keep watching.

Greg Inskip · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:47 pm **Posts:** 1081

One of them is in the box now, at the lower left of the image. My guess is CJ.

Greg Inskip · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:47 pm **Posts:** 1081

Looking out my office window I can see one of the falcons perched on the box ledge.

They've been conducting a woodpecker survey in the past week: flickers, red-bellies and a sapsucker.

Faith · **Posted:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:24 pm

Oh My!! When I see the woodpeckers in our yard, I think how lucky they are to be here. Can't fault our dear Falcon's. They are what what they are. Beautiful, no matter what they eat.

Faith · **Posted:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:30 am

I see a different feather in the box. Almost looks like a Blue Jay???

Greg Inskip · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:47 pm **Posts:** 1081

Possibly blue jay. A falcon tail feather looks similar.

Two more flickers this morning. One for Red Girl and one for CJ?

Forty minutes ago Red Girl was on the logo on the Wilmington Trust tower overlooking Rodney Square. She was on the southwest face of the building, out of the northeast wind and rain.

Faith · **Posted:** Thu Oct 14, 2010 8:40 pm

Good for her Greg. Getting shelter. More flickers, OH!!!!! Hope they are safe with the winds we will be having.

Faith · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:22 am

Noticed the feather is no longer visible. Either the winds or their housekeeping!

Catbird · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:10 am

Greg - Thanks for all the live, in-person reports of sightings and meal leftovers! I haven't seen either CJ or Red Girl at the nest box in ages, so it's nice to hear from you that they're still around.

Greg Inskip · **Joined:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:47 pm **Posts:** 1081

Catbird wrote:

Greg - Thanks for all the live, in-person reports of sightings and meal leftovers! I haven't seen either CJ or Red Girl at the nest box in ages, so it's nice to hear from you that they're still around.

It's getting past migration time for peregrines, at least the arctic ones, so hopefully both birds will stick around all winter. CJ's parents did. It's safer than flying to strange places, and would let them get an early start on renewing their vows in late winter.