[cayugabirds-l] Bradfiled Peregrines?

2015-03-12 Thread Meena Madhav Haribal 
Has anyone seen the Peregrines lately? I went during lunch and did not see any.

Meena

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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bradfiled Peregrines?

2015-03-11 Thread John Confer 
I checked Bradfield twice on Sunday, 8 March, once at about 7:45 and 
once at about 4:00 with no luck. Whitewash, which I guess was from 
Peregrines, was all over the brick walls with a few places of 
concentration. One of the three students whom I picked up, Menachem, 
said he saw a Peregrine fly by as he walked across campus that Sunday 
morning in the vicinity of college town.

Tom Cade's first Peregrine release sites was at Taughannoch St.Pk. That 
site turned out to be a disaster as two (or three?) of the released 
young were killed, presumably by a Great Horned Owl. I think that is the 
last time Peregrines "fledged" near here. It was the last time a release 
was tried at that site. Subsequent release sites were moved to 
intertidal marshes to avoid Great Horned Owls. Wouldn't it be nice to 
have a local nest where the fledglings would be defended by an adult, 
i.e., the adults would attack and drive away an owl during daylight 
hours. A long time ago, I tired to get IC approval for a release site on 
the roof of one of the IC towers. The administration said no because the 
falcons might attack coeds and the dead pigeons might carry a disease 
that students could contact. Academia is not immune to ignorant prejudices.

Cheers,

John

On 3/10/2015 9:39 PM, Dave Nutter wrote:
> I last saw a single Peregrine on the east side of Bradfield Hall on 
> the afternoon of Monday 2 March, and it was a quick poor view as I was 
> driving and looking back and up through trees over my shoulder. I had 
> checked thoroughly without success twice earlier that day. Previous to 
> that I saw 2 on Bradfield on 25 February. I have checked without 
> seeing any every other day or so since then. Yesterday as I was 
> checking I talked to a couple of people whom I don't know who were 
> photographing or videoing one of the Red-tailed Hawks, whom they 
> called "Big Red," as it brought a stick to its nest. They said they 
> hadn't seen Peregrines at Bradfield for several days but said the 
> Peregrines were downtown catching pigeons. They also said they didn't 
> "know where the scrape is," which I assume meant they thought the 
> Peregrines are nesting somewhere using a typical shallow scraped area 
> in gravel on a cliff or building.
>
> This afternoon about 2:45 I was at Myers Point with Bob McGuire and 
> Ann Mitchell when a Peregrine Falcon flew out near the lighthouse then 
> back toward land and alit in a tree near the Finger Lakes Marine 
> Service private marina. I had a brief view in flight, then it was 
> rather obscured by branches where it perched, so I couldn't tell the 
> gender, but I think it was an adult - blue gray back in flight, bold 
> pattern on face.
> --Dave Nutter
>
> On Mar 10, 2015, at 01:42 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal  
> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone seen the Peregrines lately? I went during lunch and did 
>> not see any.
>>
>> Meena
>>
>> Dr. Meena Haribal
>>
>> 409, Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI)
>>
>> Ithaca NY 14853 USA
>>
>> Phone 6073011167
>>
>> Email: m...@cornell.edu 
>>
>> http://haribal.org/
>>
>> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4
>>
>> Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/140817samplebook.pdf
>>
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Re: [cayugabirds-l] Bradfiled Peregrines?

2015-03-10 Thread Dave Nutter 
I last saw a single Peregrine on the east side of Bradfield Hall on the 
afternoon of Monday 2 March, and it was a quick poor view as I was driving and 
looking back and up through trees over my shoulder. I had checked thoroughly 
without success twice earlier that day. Previous to that I saw 2 on Bradfield 
on 25 February. I have checked without seeing any every other day or so since 
then. Yesterday as I was checking I talked to a couple of people whom I don't 
know who were photographing or videoing one of the Red-tailed Hawks, whom they 
called "Big Red," as it brought a stick to its nest. They said they hadn't seen 
Peregrines at Bradfield for several days but said the Peregrines were downtown 
catching pigeons. They also said they didn't "know where the scrape is," which 
I assume meant they thought the Peregrines are nesting somewhere using a 
typical shallow scraped area in gravel on a cliff or building.

This afternoon about 2:45 I was at Myers Point with Bob McGuire and Ann 
Mitchell when a Peregrine Falcon flew out near the lighthouse then back toward 
land and alit in a tree near the Finger Lakes Marine Service private marina. I 
had a brief view in flight, then it was rather obscured by branches where it 
perched, so I couldn't tell the gender, but I think it was an adult - blue 
gray back in flight, bold pattern on face.

--Dave Nutter


On Mar 10, 2015, at 01:42 PM, Meena Madhav Haribal  wrote:

> Has anyone seen the Peregrines lately? I went during lunch and did not see 
> any.
>
>  
>
> Meena
>
>  
>
> Dr. Meena Haribal
>
> 409, Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI)
>
> Ithaca NY 14853 USA
>
> Phone 6073011167
>
> Email: m...@cornell.edu
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> http://haribal.org/
>
> http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/
>
> Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4
>
> Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/140817samplebook.pdf
>
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>
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