ALCOA FALCONS: January-March, 2010

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Dec 31, 2009 5:35 pm

PLEASE BEGIN YOUR 2010 POSTS HERE! :ny8:

bev. · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:27 am

No one is home at nest box and I cannot even make it to midnight.

30 minutes to go bu I am off to bed.

:ny14:

ljames · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:34 am

Happy New Year bev. and to everyone. I can't believe that it's been such a long time since we saw a juvie here. Wonder if their hunting grounds are a good distance from the nest. It would be nice to see them together again, or a picture from the site, hint, hint.

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:22 pm

ljames wrote:

:ny10:

Happy New Year bev. and to everyone. I can't believe that it's been such a long time since we saw a juvie here. Wonder if their hunting grounds are a good distance from the nest. It would be nice to see them together again, or a picture from the site, hint, hint.

Yeah, its kinda surprising that all of a sudden we stopped seeing them. I know you said that your pics from last year ran into January, & I remember that, too--when they could keep the cam up. & there are a couple of people recording the cam so it isn't a matter of us just plain missing them! :ny8:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64771

We're probably gonna have 5000 copies of this pic!! Gone now... :ny8:

PattiO · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 3:49 pm

Hahahaha.......you got that right!!!!!!!!!!

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64771

OK...back to my cleaning...

nycbird · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 3:55 pm

think her tail was sticking down in the upper left corner of the pic for quite a few minutes before she dropped down onto the box. think I first saw the tail at 6:33 AM

PattiO · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:02 pm

I saw that nycbird, but wasn't sure what it was! I wish she'd come back!!

ljames · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:03 pm

Thanks for the picture. :ny5:

What a beautiful sight. I'm busy making a big New Year's Dinner, so haven't watched much, but I do have the cam up and check it out when I walk by.

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:37 pm

What a nice surprise! I got something--not sure what it is...

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:38 pm

I also noticed what could have been a tail, but I thought that was too good to be true! :ny4:

pearl1 · **Joined:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:23 pm **Posts:** 4911

everyone!!!! It sure was good to see a juvie at the nest box.I've been watching off and on,but I missed the visit.I wander what kind of bird this is now? :roll:

What do you think?

SusanE · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:45 pm

Yippee! A juvie! Thanks to all of you who were watching and caught that one moment in time.

I think that current thing is a large bug. :laugh2

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:54 pm

SusanE wrote:

Yippee! A juvie! Thanks to all of you who were watching and caught that one moment in time.

I think that current thing is a large bug. :laugh2

I think its a bug as well--you can see its antennae... :ny15:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64771

yup....bug...it had "company" about an hour ago...

bev. · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:05 pm

Yes!!! I am glad you caught the juvenile. :ny4:

I think a male. Just glad someone was there.
I will leave the cam up. Have company coming also but I can always sneak up here :ny16:

PruJoy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 6:37 pm

Wow!

What a great way to start the New Year - with a pic of last year's juvie :ny5:

- maybe Froona :ny6:

Plus I really am wondering what the heck kind of bug that was too - it must have been pretty big to show up so clearly in the cam - all I can think is maybe "Cicada" - but their antennae are very small, not like the one in the pic - mmmm ... giant moth???

SusanE · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:01 pm

Oh no, Pru, you have a new research project . . . identifying the giant bug! :laugh2

PruJoy · **Posted:** Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:41 pm

SusanE wrote:

Oh no, Pru, you have a new research project . . . identifying the giant bug! :laugh2

Mmm ... exactly what I thought too SusanE

But after just a small, 10 minute googling I can see that identifying Moths is not going to be as easy as identifying Birds - however, I think I have found enough extra info to see that the bug in the cam pic could quite possibly be a Giant Aussie Moth of some kind or another - just not sure which, mainly because the descriptions of the Moths that I have found so far do not say how big they are i.e. no length measurements!

I mean this bug must be at least over 5 cms long, maybe 7 to 10 cm.

I may try again a bit later.

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