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skygirlblue, I appreciate your summary and time-line of the events.

I didn't see Trooper on the ledge Nov. 5th. I thought I saw him fly-by the ledge. (I have a video of it and I believe that ljames posted a video of the fly-by.) Durand was down near the box and she started to vocalize and excitedly jumped near the ledge. Two birds flew by. Her foot was still sore then, so she lingered a bit holding up her foot, then she dived off the edge, but then flew into sight again, flying off in the direction of the 2 birds. Donna looked at the video and she felt it was a peregrine chasing prey, not 2 peregrines. Durand came back almost immediately and preened calmly for nearly 1/2 hour.

One thing that has run through my mind is that Trooper is okay and just left the area. Within a month's time he had 3 females on the ledge: Scout, Clementine and Durand. He raised Spirit alone. 4 months later, he had a run-in with an intruder- who I think was a MALE.
Maybe there was too much agitation for Trooper (who claimed the ledge as his for only 9 months).

I want to be the first to say that this is speculation.

Trooper earned my respect ten-fold. I miss him.

I have just had a chance to review Micks tapes of NOv 4( I was picking up my dogs so did not know any of this happened)

After watching many alterations from the ground at my site, I am sure Trooper is O.K. He would not get involved in a female intrusion unless there were babes involved.
We had several intrusions at my Weber site just before migration. All were female.

I am thinking Trooper just migrated. And if he was in getting ready for migration prior to this , he would be resting and eating in preparation.

And when he comes back , he will reclaim his rightful place.

and until I review all the footage of the last month , I am remaining lips sealed of who is there, but I trust , those of you who have been following know what you are seeing.

I am hoping for an early spring. It is warmer here today but with that comes freezing rain and then cold and snow again. but that just means more hot chocolate with marshmallows, and more pounds.

Believe it or not, I am holding out hope that Trooper will return. The thing that got me so upset was of course seeing Trooper trying so hard to defend the ledge and then poor little Durand running around the ledge, seemingly not knowing what to do, then diving back into the battle. But the next day, all those feathers blowing around the ledge, and no more Trooper. But I pray that he was just chased off, or better yet, migrated. He was/is such a special falcon. Poor little thing, eveytime he turned around there was a new mate for him to try and win their affections and little Spirit chasing him all over town too for food. Still, he pulled it off.


Yeah, I was just going to say, I'm getting the streaming.


Edit: I never really said it before I guess, but I think the new guy is the intruder from that day. Just my thoughts.

It's really 9:05 so I have to change my time on here - thank you Coriena for the great picture in the nest box!!

Thanks for all the nice videos and picture this morning. I've been watching about 1.5 hours and haven't seen anything, uh, unless they are sitting the box, which I haven't opened that cam.

No, I wouldn't be that unlucky, surely.

Thanks for the video Arles. Durand looks Huge next to him on the ledge in that video. He is a compulsive flyer, I think. We got a dive and a nice big wing flyoff.