maandag 26 december 2016
zondag 25 december 2016
Orange NSW 5:43 Diamond & Xavier
5:21 Diamond on the ledge.
5:21 Xavier flies by several times.
5:43 Xavier flies by.
5:43 Xavier arrives.
5:43 Diamond leaves.
5:46 Xavier leaves.
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
5:21 Xavier flies by several times.
5:43 Xavier flies by.
5:43 Xavier arrives.
5:43 Diamond leaves.
5:46 Xavier leaves.
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
zaterdag 24 december 2016
Orange NSW Diamond snoozes through electrical storm
Diamond snoozes through electrical storm
Published 24 December, 2016 | By Cilla Kinross
We had a major storm last night. it went on and on, lightning all around for what seemed like an hour – quite a light show. Amazingly we didn’t lose power, either at home or work, but the storm seems to have damaged my internet wireless received at home (which is only 4 km as the crow flies from the uni).
Meanwhile… Diamond snoozed on oblivious, despite the campus being lit up as if at noon. And very heavy rain for an hour or so.
VIDEO 20161224 Xmas Eve lightning
Spare a thought for Xavier and the babies. There is supposed to be more today, but we seemed to have been spared the worst of it. Xavier has been in and out of the box all day, so none the worse for this.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
Cilla
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
Published 24 December, 2016 | By Cilla Kinross
We had a major storm last night. it went on and on, lightning all around for what seemed like an hour – quite a light show. Amazingly we didn’t lose power, either at home or work, but the storm seems to have damaged my internet wireless received at home (which is only 4 km as the crow flies from the uni).
Meanwhile… Diamond snoozed on oblivious, despite the campus being lit up as if at noon. And very heavy rain for an hour or so.
VIDEO 20161224 Xmas Eve lightning
Spare a thought for Xavier and the babies. There is supposed to be more today, but we seemed to have been spared the worst of it. Xavier has been in and out of the box all day, so none the worse for this.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
Cilla
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
vrijdag 23 december 2016
Orange NSW 22 dec 21:33 Diamond arrives
21:32 Xavier on the ledge.
21:33 Diamond arrives, Xavier leaves.
Comparison with last year
Published 23 December, 2016 | By Cilla Kinross
While sorting through previous years’ notebooks to find a suitably tidy set of entries to send to Chris and Sue, I looked up last year’s post-fledging sightings around the box and found that there was a certain similarity up until mid-December.
The fledglings were Tumbler, Walga (females) and Tardy (male, always last to do anything, but actually first to leave). They fledged mid-November (16-18th, days 39-41). The pattern was similar to last year, after a week or so of chaos and missing birds, all 3 juveniles assembled in the ‘park’ opposite the roost with the parents by 25th November. After a week or so they then moved to the large dead tree on the farm, a few hundred metres away (the same one as this year). The birds were seen frequently in and around the campus. On 15th December juvenile female arrived in the box on 15th December and stayed for a few hours.
Both male and female restarted to prepare the scrape in December, although not with much vigour. Prey was occasionally stashed in the box.
On 5th January, a juvenile tried to land in the box, but Diamond chased it off. And you might be interested to know that I was still getting records of juvenile flypasts (once or twice weekly) until 13th February. The adult would pursue it, or vice versa.
In previous years I’ve also noticed that juveniles are here for 6-8 weeks after fledging, so, it is disappointing to have so few sightings of our trio this year. I’ve looked for them almost daily without any luck after such a short post-fledging period (3-4 weeks) and my spies around campus have also come up with nothing. There was a rainstorm the night before they ‘disappeared’ but I really don’t think that would have been a major problem (and not for all three at once). Anyway, I haven’t given up on finding them and will let you know as soon as do. But I’ll be away 5-15 Jan, so there’ll be fewer updates from now on.
Anyway, our couple live on doing all the normal peregrine couple things, with little prey coming into the box now, although both arrive with red tootsies or chest, obvious signs of recent kills.
Sometimes Diamond has been absent at night, or arrived very late (eg at one in the morning) and last night at 9.30 pm, suggesting gently to Xavier that he vacates the premises. They must be able to see and fly well in the pitch dark. I’ve read that they occasionally hunt at night, but I don’t have any evidence of that with our birds.
20161222 night swap
All the best for Christmas and the New Year and thanks for all your very interesting comments over the breeding season.
Cilla
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
21:33 Diamond arrives, Xavier leaves.
Comparison with last year
Published 23 December, 2016 | By Cilla Kinross
While sorting through previous years’ notebooks to find a suitably tidy set of entries to send to Chris and Sue, I looked up last year’s post-fledging sightings around the box and found that there was a certain similarity up until mid-December.
The fledglings were Tumbler, Walga (females) and Tardy (male, always last to do anything, but actually first to leave). They fledged mid-November (16-18th, days 39-41). The pattern was similar to last year, after a week or so of chaos and missing birds, all 3 juveniles assembled in the ‘park’ opposite the roost with the parents by 25th November. After a week or so they then moved to the large dead tree on the farm, a few hundred metres away (the same one as this year). The birds were seen frequently in and around the campus. On 15th December juvenile female arrived in the box on 15th December and stayed for a few hours.
Both male and female restarted to prepare the scrape in December, although not with much vigour. Prey was occasionally stashed in the box.
On 5th January, a juvenile tried to land in the box, but Diamond chased it off. And you might be interested to know that I was still getting records of juvenile flypasts (once or twice weekly) until 13th February. The adult would pursue it, or vice versa.
In previous years I’ve also noticed that juveniles are here for 6-8 weeks after fledging, so, it is disappointing to have so few sightings of our trio this year. I’ve looked for them almost daily without any luck after such a short post-fledging period (3-4 weeks) and my spies around campus have also come up with nothing. There was a rainstorm the night before they ‘disappeared’ but I really don’t think that would have been a major problem (and not for all three at once). Anyway, I haven’t given up on finding them and will let you know as soon as do. But I’ll be away 5-15 Jan, so there’ll be fewer updates from now on.
Anyway, our couple live on doing all the normal peregrine couple things, with little prey coming into the box now, although both arrive with red tootsies or chest, obvious signs of recent kills.
Sometimes Diamond has been absent at night, or arrived very late (eg at one in the morning) and last night at 9.30 pm, suggesting gently to Xavier that he vacates the premises. They must be able to see and fly well in the pitch dark. I’ve read that they occasionally hunt at night, but I don’t have any evidence of that with our birds.
20161222 night swap
All the best for Christmas and the New Year and thanks for all your very interesting comments over the breeding season.
Cilla
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
donderdag 22 december 2016
woensdag 21 december 2016
maandag 19 december 2016
Orange NSW 20 Dec 5:18 Diamond & Xavier
5:17 Diamond on the ledge.
5:18 Xavier arrives.
5:18 Diamond leaves.
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
5:18 Xavier arrives.
5:18 Diamond leaves.
playlist Falcon Peregrines Orange NSW 2016
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