What are you looking at? Spring is here and the peregrine webcam is up and running once again. Every year the Audubon Society of RI provides this mesmerizing view of the nesting box on top of the Superman Building downtown. It’s hard to tell male from female unless they are together (the female is the …
Friday was banding day for the young peregrines (eyases) in the nesting box atop the Superman Building. This is a full-contact sport for the experts from the Audubon Society of Rhode Island (ASRI) and they always include urban wildlife photographer Peter Green of Providence Raptors. The peregrine parents do not enjoy this process and respond …
That is probably Number Four sunning himself behind the box. You can just barely see his beak on the right. Remember, the two biggest fledglings are the females; the smaller two are the males. Things happen quickly now as the last of their down feathers give way to adult flight feathers. PBS has this: Hatchlings …
In the Before Time this was a real live auction with a bar and food and fun people. But this year ‘Party for the Peregrines’ will be a four-day virtual online auction with proceeds going to support the peregrine nesting box, among other worthy ASRI programs. Meet the Audubon’s Ambassadors and join the trivia contest, …
One . . . two . . . four . . . I’m going to take the Audubon Society’s word for it, because all I see is a plate of floating islands under a mohair pillow sham. Even on their “four eyases” video it is hard to sort them out. What is an eyas? A …
And then there were three. This was the scene this morning. The picture below was taken yesterday. You can see that the more mature of the siblings still have downy white tufts sticking out, but they have started flapping out of the box. Sometimes they are out of camera range — investigating the rooftop at …
The ASRI peregrine webcam page reports that the female is now sitting on four eggs! I have been unable to confirm this as she just will not move. No matter how hard I stare I can not get her lift up her skirts even a little bit. Sometimes the only way to know it is …