May 22, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
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
Posted on May 23, 2012 12:17 am
May 22, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Niagara Falls Banding - June 7th - 9AM
Meet at 9am, - Banding 11am
Posted on May 22, 2012 3:15 pm
May 18, 2012 - Niagara Falls
Mark Nash Reports:
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…………
Posted on May 19, 2012 4:21 pm
May 17, 2012 - Niagara Falls
Frank Butson Reports:
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.
Posted on May 18, 2012 6:02 am
May 16, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
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
Posted on May 17, 2012 2:03 am
May 11, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
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
Posted on May 15, 2012 1:24 pm
May 09, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
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…….
Posted on May 9, 2012 11:04 pm
May 09, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
May 9th - 2012
Probably Diamond returning to relieve Gorge’s George. just eggs seen, likely three, no hatches.
Photos by Roger
Vicki
Taken this year in the morning on Wednesday, 09 May
Posted on May 9, 2012 12:19 pm
May 08, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Tuesday May 8th - 2012
Mark,
Once we saw the rain had moved through, off we went to the Niagara gorge. As we got closer, we saw there was still a lot of fog and mist in the area. duh… for quite a while, we could hardly see the pefa in the box. We scanned the area, the rooftops and the gorge, looking for the second pefa with no luck.
As Roger and I were walking back to the point to leave, Jacquie showed up, so we all stayed, eyes, scopes, binocs and cameras watching the box, hoping to see a hatch. Oddly, after three days of pefa restlessness, the bird was very quiet today with a minimum of movement detected.
Roger got the pic-of-the-day, below, showing the eggs. The other two pix show the misty, foggy conditions we encountered.
Roger, Jacquie and I are now betting on Thursday as the big day!
Again, rain is forecast for Wed and Thurs, and we’ll be monitoring the Intellecast radar to see when we can make a break for it.
Vicki, Roger & Jacquie at your service 
Posted on May 8, 2012 11:59 pm
May 07, 2012 - Niagara Falls
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Monday May 7th - 2012
Hi All,
We fell out of bed at 7, grabbed bagels and coffees at the gas station and headed to NF as rain was forecast by 10am.
The pefa in the box was again fidgetty and changing position often, as
shown in the first three pix below. No sighting of the second pefa.
Fourth pic shows actual viewing distance without benefit of zooming.
Unfortunately, we could not determine if the restlessness in the box means pre-hatch activity or an actual hatch. I know. A non-answer.
And we need more than guesswork right now. The weather forecast predicts rain through Thursday, which really hampers visibility but we’ll go back as often as we can. We’re invited to NY for Mother’s Day, but our plans are on hold, hoping to see Diamond’s Mother’s Day!
Vicki
Posted on May 7, 2012 3:27 pm
