I Have A Freekin' Peregrine Nest In My Tree!!

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survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 2, 2009 - 02:43pm PT
There is a huge old growth NM bosque cottonwood towering over my house. We've seen a pair of Peregrines coming and going, and then started thinking we were hearing youngins'.

Today we finally spotted their nest in a hole way up high in this old tree!

I don't have a camera with a lense that'll reach out enough anymore......AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
Will this work??
http://kritterkorner.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/peregrine_falcon_wildernessclassroom.jpg

That's the closest to what I'm seeing through the binoculars.
PhotogEC

climber
Pasadena, CA
Jul 2, 2009 - 02:46pm PT
That is incredibly cool.

If you're interested enough, many camera stores have a rental department... you can rent a body and long lens for a day or week.

If you go that route, be sure to post some pics here.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 2, 2009 - 02:47pm PT
hey there say, survival... wow... it is surviving in survival's tree.... oh my... :)

say, i am very happy for you... :)


say--edit--would it make a news story... and they could take a pic...

or, sadly, would folks then come and do it harm... :(
Reilly

Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
Jul 2, 2009 - 02:48pm PT
I strongly advise you not to tell a soul! The wildlife nazis will make you move out and the birdwatchers will be knocking on your door at all hours! Never heard of a peregrine nesting in a cavity before but I guess it could happen. Good luck!
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 2, 2009 - 02:49pm PT
hey there reilly... oops, i had not thought of that, either...
another no-no, for speaking up, i reckon...

oh my...
Nefarius

Big Wall climber
Fresno
Jul 2, 2009 - 02:50pm PT
What really sucks is that you're going to have to buy a second home now, so you have somewhere to go from April through August...
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2009 - 02:51pm PT
Thanks PhotogEC,
I think I will do that, and I will definitely post up.
Here's the call I'm hearing.
http://www.hangingrocktower.org/calls/peregrine.htm
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
Jul 2, 2009 - 02:53pm PT
The wildlife nazis will make you move out and the birdwatchers will be knocking on your door at all hours!

Bwahhaahah!!! I was thinking the same thing.

(it could happen)
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2009 - 02:57pm PT
OK, mums the word outside of here....derrrrrrrr...
Reilly

Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
Jul 2, 2009 - 02:59pm PT
"(it could happen)"

No, bluey, it's gonna happen.
It was 25 flippin' years ago I was busted there. Me, a card-carrying birdbrain, er, birdwatcher. I was going up the ridge to the south of the Shield to solo the Haystack and continue on to the top of Sandia. A freaking undercover pine fuzz stepped out from behind a tree! I checked it out on GoogleEarth recently and I was just shy of 3/4 mile horizontally from the Shield, a 1000' face! On top of that the ridge I was on was separated from the Shield by a huge canyon! Yeah, those peregrines up on the Shield were really worried about me.
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2009 - 03:27pm PT
They certainly didn't seem to mind us on the PO or the NA, cruising by close to check us out, landing nearby, etc.

Of course that was eons ago, they must've learned to be afraid since then.
kev

climber
CA
Jul 2, 2009 - 03:54pm PT
I don't know who annoys me more, the nature-nazis or the eco-terrorists....

Don't tell anyone about your visitors...

kev
survival

Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2009 - 04:01pm PT
"Jus kiddin..."

BWA HA Hahahahaa!!
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Jul 2, 2009 - 04:34pm PT
Neato, Bruce.

Post some pictures!
bluering

Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
Jul 2, 2009 - 04:53pm PT
Warbler's right, survival, some video documentation would be helpful to others that are trying to prove that Peregrines CAN nest successfully around human activity.

"Wildlife nazi's" was Reilly's term, but I agree with it.
msiddens

Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
Jul 2, 2009 - 08:32pm PT
Dood, eminent domain. You'll be homeless in days.
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
Sprocketville
Jul 2, 2009 - 09:00pm PT
send a raccoon loose up there, drop him in by parachute, or hang glide him in there, that way the tree fuzz will think it is natural pedators climbing the food chain.
Reilly

Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
Jul 2, 2009 - 09:11pm PT
Don't yous guys read anything I post? I've told you a thousand times, ok at least twice, there is research out there. It is just that the wildlife nazis (my term!) choose to ignore it because it doesn't 'work' for them. The other reason is it wasn't done 'here' so I guess those Euro and Aussie peregrines don't communicate with their 'tard US cousins.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Jul 2, 2009 - 09:26pm PT
hey there ekat.. say, my mom and i always loved to go hike and look for falcons and hawks, or whateever was out there...

saw lots of turkey vultures--this was all in san jose..

but say, in south texas we saw the neatest birds...

i really enjoyed seeing the flickers and woodpeckers put holes in my papayas... (well, until they wrecked too many papayas that i had long waited to eat) ... ;)

say, if you love birds, you need to check-out the chachalaca, of south texas... a big bird, and not very colorful but fun to see and hear....




good luck, survival, on surviving your "nesting" experience...

wow, from the look of it, it may get more wild from the people-folk than the bird's parent-folk...

god bless...

hope you get some pics, too...
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