FORT ST. VRAIN, CO~JAN-FEB 2010

SusanE · **Posted:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:37 pm

How funny to see that squirrel running around on the nest. I wonder how many warnings he will get before Mom and Dad lose their patience.

Thanks for all the pics today, kitten and Patti! :sfthumbs:

Couldn't really tell about the bands . . .

Catbird · **Posted:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:39 pm

KF - Thanks for the great pictures and slideshow today. That eagle pair sure looked kissy-kissy in your show!

Patti - That was too cute with the squirrels in the nest.

kittenface · **Posted:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:57 pm

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:55 pm

PattiO · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:13 pm

Now how did you catch both of them!! I only saw one.

PattiO · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:24 pm

One of them is back!

PattiO · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:48 pm

Still one on the nest .... they've been there a lot so far today. I made a slideshow. When you get the picture with the red circle around the leg, that's the last pic. I think you are right about them being banded Kitten.

Catbird · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:09 pm

KF and Patti - Thanks for the great pictures and slideshow today!

PattiO · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:19 pm

The 2 of them were just there again ... I think they've been working on the nest all day!

Kitten, what's their lay date??

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:37 pm

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:39 pm

PattiO wrote:

The 2 of them were just there again ... I think they've been working on the nest all day!

Kitten, what's their lay date??

Feb 16th or 17th
Feb 19th
Feb 23rd or 24th

SusanE · **Posted:** Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:09 pm

This couple certainly was busy today! Thanks for the slideshows, Patti and kittenface. Do you think this is a different pair from last year? I can never remember which ones are banded and which ones aren't. :roll:

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:14 pm

I'm still trying to find out what I can about these 2 being banded or not
I don;t remember ( I'll have to go back and see) them having bands last year

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:25 pm

Well I just went over to old forum and looked at last years pictures and I'm still
sitting here crying like a baby
Well anyway I found a few pictures and at least one of them was banded I
neveer found any good picture of both of them at once that you could
see anything

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:08 pm

Oh Kitten, I know how you feel! It was so sad last year. Thanks for researching the bands from last year . . . so hopefully it is the same couple.

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:23 pm

I've looked about everywhere I can think of to see if they were both banded last year
I've got an email to joe who monitors there but haven't heard anything I'll
let you know ae soon as I hear

PattiO · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:38 pm

That looks like the female with the band.

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:24 pm

Linda at RRP just let us know they band here there is a picture of 2007 eaglet being banded
http://raptorresource.org/forum/index.p ... 4.285.html

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:28 pm

Well I got my email reply here it is
You have just been sent a personal message by GreeleyJoe on raptorresource.org.

Hi---

I'm not all that sure but I checked with one of the other staff members here at FSV
and he said that....

"....it sure would be nice to get a clear number on the large yellow tag...we could
check with DOW on origination. Otherwise, this is a different bird than we have
had in the past. In the past the female had a blue band on one leg and a silver
band on the other and was found to have come from Barr Lake (near Brighton, CO).
The male had no bands."

"The bird that has the yellow tag has to be 4-5 years old as it has full adult
plumage. The yellow tabs were put on our birds from 2004 - 2007."

Hope this helps.

Joe
This is the picture of the tag he was talking about someone over at RRP
said it might be a cattle tag that got stuck on the talon, I guess there was
some problems a few yrs back with them

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:02 pm

So it looks like if this is the same female she will had blue band and we now know this isn't the same male seeings that it has a band and last yrs didn't and this might bee one from the past WOW this nest is getting to interesting now for sure :lol:

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