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I get confused with who is where and when I know it. When went to the SB info page, I [or someone] had already noted that Rebecca was in Kalamazoo. I have no memory of adding, but it is there.
This getting old is tough business!

Burnsville
This morning



This evening....she has moved closer to the box since I this scap .

The Kalamazoo bird may not be 61/D, Squirt from Wisconsin. Kalamazoo watchers looked at several videos and captured these images which they think may be 81/D, a bird banded in Lima Ohio as a female in 2010.

I will update as I hear more. If anyone wants to weigh in, please feel free.

In the meantime, no positive ID on the female, Rebecca, hatched in South Bend. So the plot thickens.

Two possibilities:
1. Rebecca has been displaced - no one has read her bands this season.
2. Baby was a BIG boy. If a juvie is in between in weight, they are banded as one gender and sometimes end up being the other gender.

An email and pictures from Greg Septon on this! We have a positive ID on Rebecca! I forwarded this to Gail in Kalamazoo. Hoping someone can get a high res photo from the ground.

Hi Gigi,

There are likely a number of issues that are making the determination of this band number less than certain. The first is the web cam and the lens distortion as seen in the first image below. This in effect stretches out the details (band numbers).

The second issue is the low resolution of image captures which makes it difficult to refine the images in Photoshop where one can oftentimes sharpen and "pull" numbers together. In a low res image, the pixels just get pulled apart and mostly end up unreadable.

The third issue which I often see is white excrement and/or residue from prey remains that sticks to the bands and at times can make them totally unreadable. With the Kalamazoo male, there could be some white excrement in the upper right portion of the 6 which would make it look like an 8 - and this would especially be true with the lens distortion issue.

In the second image below I have an enhanced screen shot of the female's band and from the best I can tell it reads (b/g) *W/*C which would be "Rebecca", so this would make it unlikely that (b/r) 81/D (banded as a female) - is the other falcon at this site and leads me to suspect that the male is (b/r) 61/D. As I mentioned before the only thing that will resolve this for sure is to get some additional images of the male's bands in good light.

Just for comparison's sake, in the third image below I show two bands - one shows the # 61 and the other # 81. The black/blue (b/blu) bands are the new bands we started using last year and the alpha numeric characters are a bit more finely engraved and more distinct than those on the black/red bands. In any case, it provides a comparison between a 61 and an 81.

All the best,

Greg

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Burnsville
Somebody had a good meal!

Evanston Library:

Just watched a nice bowing session here

Just saw a Kalamazoo falcon pop onto the nest ledge!

Grand Haven