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......Nest location: On the side of a building 14 stories high at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

......Radisson (female) -- Band: Black R/7
......Current male -- unbanded
......Previous male -- K/97


Weber Centre

......Miss Edmonton (female)

march29

We went down looking for falcons and waited to see if any turned in also. Very cold and we saw no signs . but last year Radisson was back beginning of April. Our males were all late due to weather this was at U of A

Was at Bell area on Wed and saw no signs of falcons there either.

We checked WEber today as we had to go to airport early and looked around, no falcons . a sign they have returned, is pigeons scatter and ravens do not hang around roof areas

but soon, they will be here and I never know who. But in big scheme o f things. we need a male and female at all sites and preferably , at least one o f them returns. We all know where my heart is, but I always know that one day my heart ones will not return and so then we have to look to future

Alberta conservation raised over $3000.00 and so there will possibly be a few night cams. Do not know where or when.

I have not e-mailed Gord yet as I am trying to slow things down LOL

have a good day

Cheers
Bev

Thanks for that report, Bev! Im sure all your favorites are on their way back "home"!

March4

University
We went there twice tonight. first time there was nothing. tons of ravens passing over buildings but no falcons.

when we came back after going to Weber. We saw nothing at first. Peter went to get coffee for us, and then I saw th e ravens by nest box area and the next thing I knew, poof, a falcon chasing them and kaking. this was after 8pm

It flew after them and back to perch on aerial on Windsor park. Pete took picture and we will have to get close anf bring scope, but I think it is Radisson. She hates Ravens and last year , she was always after them. This falcon knows the area. She / it flew off north in a hurry but I think to get supper LOL
This falcon may been here sooner but Jean did not see anyone and I did not have time till tonight to go down again

Peter will post picture after he has supper. not a good one for Id.

edit to add picture .Jean will keep an eye out when she is home

blurry sorry


WEber

no sign of anything but ravens on roof. If falcons are back ravens scatter. looked all over

will go back tomorrow and will try and go to Bell area also

Welcome back Radisson!!!!

Great news bev!!!

U o f A

April 5th

we went down to U of and as we pulled in we saw someone on lower Maz eating, so I thought maybe Radisson

but as we got closer , we could see it was quite light in color. It flew off as Ravens came in . We took quite a few pictures but we think it was a young Swain sons Hawk

good thing it left because about 10 minutes later , Radisson came flying in chupping . She went right to nest box. Jean saw her fly quickly past her window , coming from the Southeast.

I believe she was on cam aerial for a bit by nest box. have to look at picutres .

She stayed there for quite awhile before flying over to antennae on north side of College Plaza. That is wher we left her

We went down again last evening and she was on her antennae and then , o f course, stated after ravens . she just kills me the way she goes after them LOL

She eventually flew back to her antennae on top of Windsor apartments.

We know we have to get official Id but I will eat my hat( please be Radisson )if it is not. I f we had better lens we would have gotten her band number while she was flying . when she w still she would not show us her leg

Same funny tail feather, same places she hangs out at and same MO with ravens . same look

the coffee shops and cafeterias will be glad to see us again.
Wanted to buy a better lens this yer, but house repairs kind of nicked that

I am editing my post heard back from Gord and this light bird is a female prairie falcon. I thought falcon but ti was so light so then we thought hawk, bu twings were not right.

female prairie falcon on lower MAz



female prairie faLCON

FEMALE prairie falcon

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trade mark tail featherradisson

Congrats Bev! So happy she's home!

april9

Heard from Gord yesterday and the cams at Bell and U of A are ready to go. R let the technician know who was boss

also one is being installed at Weber again

Gord said . " All three new cameras have zoom controlled by computer (don’t know if they can outsource that), but very clear, loads of depth of field, weatherproof, and provide images at night (roughly colour corrected) – so should be quite interesting."

So I have notified cam people that R is home. hope thy will turn on soon

Thanks Bev!
Can't wait....

april11
went down to University tonight and although only Radisson was seen , after having coffee with Jean , we checked night spots and 2 were tucked in for night. so we have 2 home.

Do not know if Chase but that another is in regular turn in spot, I suspect it is.

We will try and go to bell tomorrow PM and we saw no one at Weber but will tak e another gander tomorrow

waiting for cams to go on line

[b]WEberapril12[/b]

[size=150]When we arrived there, there was one falcon on nest box . Then as we were trying to get pictures, one appeared on B of Weber letters on east side . It preened as we tried to ID. At this point we are just looking to see if bands.
One on B had black bands on left leg. After a bit it went up to roof and the other one came down to W . One on W moved over to the B . They stayed like that for awhile( my heart told me none were Miss E, too soon for her) and sure enough, this other one had black bands on left. Miss E has black on right.

It was so cold out and wind blowing. So hard to scope. but the one on roof went over to box .

Got a bit confused there for awhile, as the car dealership was trying to move cars up to roof of building we watch from, and we were trying to Id birds. In the midst of all of this , I could see the falcons looking up to the skies and just watching. Out of nowhere a falcon comes flying right up to roof where box is. It flew right up on north east side. A quick touchdown . I thought battle for sure, as another falcon was there.
There was some chupping from falcon already there, but no kaking.
Then the male, I think, by size, quickly flew after it , and chased it out. One gentle hit to intruder, . Intruder was a bit bigger but Peter figured it was male also . ( I am cursing to myself as dealership is distracting me ) what is more important Our thoughts were ,maybe a young one.

Male flies back , and the female( I think) , who had gone into the box, came out. She eventually flew south for a bit . Then the male flew south, and he just circled, and then came back and mosied over by box. The one we think, was the female , flew back ,and flew to north side of Weber. Male flew over there , heard some chupping and then male flew off an d around building.

One we know now is female , came over to roof by us( east side) and catwalked over to southeast roof of Weber. Male flew over and there was a canoodle . Male flew off and tried for another but missed. Silly guy . And this is how we knew, who was male an d who was female. Then he did some aerial displays and flew west . Female stayed on southeast corner.

so we know we have a male and female, both black bands on left legs. We know we have another falcon out there and we know, if Miss E is on her way home, there is going to be trouble.

Are you confused yet. [/size] we are

some photos

male we think

femalewe think




female we think


two








male



female on bottom , male on top

male

I am afraid if she is on way back we will have a terrible battle here.
We have people alerted and cam should be on line soon.

Bev, Im still holding my breath, here! How's it going?