Woodmen: 2013

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:56 pm

i have a feeling and really hope I'm wrong but I think they have decided on this box there has been one there all morning that I have seen

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 2:20 pm

So I went and look at the twitter stuff and found this picture it said it was taken march 21 is this out new guy well anyway this is as far as I got now its time to get ready for work so you all can play detective

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64761

Thanks KF...I did see that and I still can't read it..is it a sideways 8? W? sideways 3?

Anyway, they really have been visiting this other box today...

From earlier, but they were just there...Gosh, I hope they don't choose this box...

obxbarb · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 6:54 pm

That would really stink!! Thanks for the photo kitten. Hopefully the state biologists have seen this since it was on their twitter feed.

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:39 pm

carly wrote:

Those bands are a challenge. I'm going to guess - based on search of database - here is my pick. I'll take 'Larry' for the block. I know that would make him too young but what the heck...

b/r 88/A
Left Larry m
2009 Alliant Columbia Generating Station Pardeeville
Columbia county, WI

Pardeeville--that's where they had those very large clutches of eggs! I think one year they had 8 eggs & 6 chicks, but I think it was before 2009 so might not even be the same parents.

ljames · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:40 pm

obxbarb · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:49 pm

Thanks ljames. That's a good sign. Might be soon?

catwoman · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:31 am

Saw that Hera is at the "right" nestbox! :eggthumbup:

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:32 pm

Hey look here Hera IS STILL AT THE RIGHT BOX :sum9:

Kris G. · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:47 pm

From Woodmen FB page:

Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society

Congratulations Tracy Formaro-Riley! You’ve won our “Who’s That Bird” sweepstakes and will receive a gift basket from the Woodmen Tower Falcons.

Hera’s new mate is from Lincoln, Nebraska! And there’s a little twist to his story…

The new male falcon, Mintaka, was originally banded at the State Capital as female – NE Game & Parks said that when there is uncertainty in gender, they err by using the female band size. (This is because females have larger feet.)

Join us in welcoming the new reigning king of downtown Omaha, Mintaka!

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:19 pm

Mintaka is actually a multiple star at the western end of Orion's belt, with a magnitude 7 star about 52" away from the main component and an even fainter star in between. The main component itself is also double, consisting of a class B giant and a smaller but hotter class O. The stars orbit each other every 5.73 days. These two stars are both about 90,000 times as luminous as the Sun with a mass of some 20 solar masses.

In 1904, Johannes Hartmann discovered that interstellar space contains a thin gas, the interstellar medium,[4] by using Mintaka as a background source.

ljames · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:18 pm

Here's a picture they posted of the bands.

kittenface, I had no idea that you are quite the astromomer.

Matrix · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:01 pm

kittenface wrote:

So I went and look at the twitter stuff and found this picture it said it was taken march 21 is this out new guy well anyway this is as far as I got now its time to get ready for work so you all can play detective

LOL...So I wonder who this is that they used on the twitter feed...try as I might, I can't make these bands come close to matching the "real" pic.... :imbored:

Anyhow...glad the "new" male is finally ID'd!! :hapdance:

Matrix · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:03 pm

carly wrote:

kittenface wrote:

Mintaka is actually a multiple star at the western end of Orion's belt, with a magnitude 7 star about 52" away from the main component and an even fainter star in between. The main component itself is also double, consisting of a class B giant and a smaller but hotter class O. The stars orbit each other every 5.73 days. These two stars are both about 90,000 times as luminous as the Sun with a mass of some 20 solar masses.

In 1904, Johannes Hartmann discovered that interstellar space contains a thin gas, the interstellar medium,[4] by using Mintaka as a background source.

Wow and thanks Kitten! :eggthumbup:

I second that! :hapdance:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64761

I think somebody better go check this box...There has been a falcon here a lot the past 24 hrs...

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64761

Well, I emailed woodmen about falcons in the North nest box....Coincidence? Probably...

They have moved the streaming cam to the North nest box...Hera is in there now...but WAY to dark for me to see anything..I'm guessing if they had seen an egg while they were moving the cam, they would have said something...

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64761

I didn't see an egg...

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:07 pm

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:36 pm

obxbarb · **Posted:** Sat Mar 30, 2013 4:58 pm

Hera has been on and off this egg all day, but I couldn't see it until this afternoon. Not sure how long it's been there because I just got home from Florida. I haven't seen the male all day.

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