Visibility better today, and we could count to four! Parent in and out of the nest a few times. Can’t say for sure that there are five, but glad to see the four. This is the best shot.
Oh! I saw you on Toronto TV news last week! So glad to you spoke about the Peregrines vs Wallenda!
Vicki Kadow & Roger Johnson (pic)
May 29th - 2012
Storms were forecast so we tried to get to the gorge first. Very very misty making clear views or pix difficult. We had to walk down the path as it was too wet at Terrapin Point. We did see parent continuously blocking a good view of the little fluffballs, but they are getting bigger. Maybe we can count to five tomorrow! 
On watch: Vicki Kadow, Roger Johnson and John Shiposki
May 26th -2012
The adults are not staying in the box all the time now, but the eyasses still huddle together, making counting them from across the gorge difficult even with Connie’s scope. At one point, when the parent, Diamond I think, left the box, she went to a patch of grass growing out of the concrete just below the box before flying off. Here are a few shots. We expect the babies to grow a lot over the next week, giving us a better chance for a count!
Have a great weekend,
Vicki Kadow & Roger Johnson
May 22nd-2012
First pic - male about 8-9 windows to the left of aerie Is his name Onyx? I have been calling him Gorge’s George because I didn’t know if he had a real name.
Second pic - mama Diamond finally let us see her little babies! She too seems very impressed with them, don’t you think?
Vicki Kadow & Roger Johnson
Niagara Falls Banding - June 7th - 9AM
Meet at 9am, - Banding 11am
May 18th - 2012
We are pleased to announce that the Niagara Falls banding of the young hatchlings has been scheduled for the morning of June 7th.
Photos and event details will be posted as soon as we can get them posted.
Stay tuned…………
Our falcon watching friends in Rochester went on a road trip to Buffalo to observe from the US side our nest at Niagara Falls.
Mak and Joyce reported:
The unbanded male, CPF calls Onyx, brought a food package and mom fed the eyases. Joyce was able to determine that there were 3 little fuzz ball heads being fed looking through my scope. So 1 egg hatched since yesterday with 2 remaining. She flew out and cached the leftovers and returned. A while later he flew in to relieve her and take over the incubation duties. I spotted her on a window south of the scrape after she flew around a bit.
May 16th - 2012
Photos from today. Two 1-2 day old chicks so far. Female was on the nest, male flew in after about 15 min with a prey item and they each fed one of the chicks.
Jacquie Walters 5/16/2012- 2:04 PM
Friday May 11th - 2012
Taken this year in the morning on Friday, 11 May.
One of today’s pix. At first I thought she might be looking at a hatch. Jacquie had a scope and said “no”. But soon, it’s got to be soon!
Vicki
May 9th - 2012 - PM Analysis
After blowing up some of this morning photos, it appears that there is a distinct possibility that there are 5 eggs in the nest tray!
This might explain a later hatch than we expected. She may not have gone down into full time “cooking” as we say. Full time “hard incubation” may not started when we thought it did.
Time will tell.
Photo by Roger.
Stay tuned…….
