FARGO 2011

obxbarb · **Posted:** Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:47 pm

Please start your 2011 posts here!

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:49 pm

Peregrine falcon spotted in downtown Fargo
Published March 18, 2011, 01:39 PM
By: Dave Olson,

FARGO – For some, the arrival of a robin is a sure sign of spring.

For others, it’s a peregrine falcon sighting.

This week, at least one perennial visitor has apparently returned to the Fargo-Moorhead area.

Miracle, a female peregrine falcon who has nested outside the 12th floor of the Bank of the West building in downtown Fargo for several years, has again been seen downtown.

Or at least Wickham Corwin thinks it’s Miracle.

Until the local bird watcher is able to get a good look at the band on the bird’s leg, Corwin won’t be sure.

If it is Miracle, there is so far no sign of her past mating partner, Dakota Ace, a male peregrine who has been visiting the Fargo area since 2000.

But, Corwin added, it is not unusual for Dakota Ace to show up later than Miracle each spring.

catwoman · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2011 4:09 pm

I was just thinking about the Fargo cam yesterday & in fact checked to see if it was up yet. If I remember right, there were working on making it less of a hassle to get this cam.

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:11 pm

catwoman wrote:

I was just thinking about the Fargo cam yesterday & in fact checked to see if it was up yet. If I remember right, there were working on making it less of a hassle to get this cam.

I check a couple times a day also, I hope it is easier to get to this year.

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:57 am

And here we go again

Published April 09, 2011, 12:00 AM
Oh my, these deadly predators!

By: Rodney Nelson, Fargo

JoAnn Coon’s letter (“Peregrine falcons vicious predators that do not belong in city limits,” Forum, March 27) was of interest to the bird-watcher.

I knew the Peregrine to be a predator, not that it was “vicious.” Maybe she saw a falcon do some “top dog” – like strutting over a canine kill.

It’s alarming to hear that Peregrines have become such a threat to residential neighborhoods that people no longer dare leave small dogs and infants in their own backyards.

What action Coon wants the city to take is unclear. Dispatching Fargo Police Department marksmen to take the birds out might be seen as too predaceous.

Slowly adding a toxic supplement to the diets of every pigeon, Chihuahua and human newborn in town would probably work, but it would take awhile and have odd ramifications.

The city could contract the services of a licensed bird whisperer with a degree in avian counseling to do cognitive therapy to extinguish the falcons’ vicious behavior or, that failing, have their owner remove his or her pets to a remote nonurban hedge or thicket site where they’d nest and get off their current regimen.

Anyway, I agree that something must be done to rid our skies and backyards of these deadly, antisocial predators.

catwoman · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:06 pm

Does this guy not know that falcons are protected, & anyone trying to harm them could face serious consequences? Where do they get this stuff? :evil:

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 9:35 pm

catwoman wrote:

Does this guy not know that falcons are protected, & anyone trying to harm them could face serious consequences? Where do they get this stuff? :evil:

They have to be pulling it out of their ----------

Beth · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:15 pm

We have a live cam and maybe 1 or 2 eggs :egg119:

Photo taken from one of the videos on Ustream-trying to look for egg(s)

http://216.52.240.165/channel/dakota-falcons

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:21 pm

How great that it is on UStream maybe we will see more this yr.
Thanks Beth

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:13 pm

Well your right about 2 eggs Beth maybe 3 just can't tell yet :egg5:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

Its snowing...

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:21 pm

Oh how wonderful to hear, you know there are a lot of the little ones showing up now Thank goodness for bands

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

This is the male...what you can't see is the female in the small inserted cam. He leaves the box, apparently loops around, and they enjoy a little canoodling before she goes into the box...

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 9:20 am

Now where did you go to get a picture I can't get the cam?

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

You can't get Fargo?

ok...be right back with the link..

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

OK...now I really feel stupid....I had been watching a recording...hahahahahahahahaha

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64480

OK...I went to the Audubon page and found this announcement dated 4/25

UPDATE: APRIL 25, 2011. THE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO FROM THE NEST IS TEMPORARILY OFFLINE. IT WILL BE BACK UP SOON.

This is the Audubon link...they are just looping that video..

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 9:43 am

Oh don't feel stupid remember when I kept emailing the wrong people about a nest that was 5 states over :laugh2

but I was starting to wondering where the eggs were :think

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 6:48 pm

Cam is back up :clapegg:

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