2 adults at Scarborough Bell
May 14, 2009 - Scarborough - Bell
Marion Nash Reports:
At about 3:45 Wednesday afternoon Kathy and I stopped in at the Scarborough Bell Site to see if the birds Mark and I saw on Tuesday were still there and still active at the box.
I brought a spotting scope with me in the hope I could get their band numbers and identify the pair.
At first we saw nothing but about 5 minutes later 2 falcons flew off the tower and landed on the nest box front porch and copulated.
By 4:00 Kathy had to leave me still running and at about 4:30 Bruce joined me on the chase.
We then spent about an hour and a half running from one vantage point to another as we no sooner got the scope and tripod set in place and focused on one of them when it would fly off to another position or the male would fly in or off and copulate with her.
finally at about 6:00 they settled down and Bruce and I were able get a good look at the black and green band on the Female and got the numbers and saw a pinkish band on the male but he wouldn’t Show the black band.
We were anxiously waiting for Mark to show up with his camera so he could get some photos of the pair to help verify the band numbers and confirm what we were seeing when they copulated again for the 8th time just minutes before Mark arrived.