GREAT SPIRIT BLUFF, 2022-2023

bev. · **Posted:** Wed Jun 28, 2023 11:53 pm

she has been eating every tim e I see her LOL

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:10 pm **Posts:** 6068

OWL GOT 2
June 29, 2023
Owl got 2 of the fledglings - and the mother.
Reports off Explore.
https://files.explore.org/sn/1970/11/3/ ... 389.ts.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/07 ... f3542a.jpg

I cringe at live prey - but thaats how they learn

:tissue:

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:43 am

I posted this in Breaking News:

Not very crazy about posting this. I'm doing it cause SGB needs to update her calendar. Another Great Spirit Bluff juvie, Jaycee, was taken by an owl last night. :tissue:

I mistakenly clicked on the youtube video which was on BCAW FB, and all morning I've been hearing Jaycee's scream. :sorrow:

You can say what you want about falcons raised in cities and the dangers they face, but I don't know any that's endured the tragicity of the this nest during the past few years. :cryinggirl:

I guess if nothing else, Jaycee's scream carryed off into darkness so she was still alive and perhaps escaped.

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:52 pm

i will hold out hope.
I am heart sick . I worried about her as she was on top of box, and light shone on that. I will hold out hope.

owls are a problem all over. they're in the cities also, at least in our cities.
We had one close to the MIscercoirdia box and I worried about our young
but what ever outcome here, this was a success story , in as much as they all fledged.

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:10 pm **Posts:** 6068

Lets be glad there were 4 eggs - 4 fledglings - not merely 2.
So hopefuly 2 will continue on and raise broods of their own.

The falcons eat other birds.
Owls eat falcons.

The circle of life- n death . n we watch

NOTE ON EXPLORE
JAYCE seen today - eating ( what else ) :15heartbeat:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63313

I agree Bev. and Shep...definitely a success this year...no jumping chicks because of biting flies, etc.

Wait...Shep, Jaycee was seen today? She's OK?

I'm so confused. I thought there was concern that the GHO got her??

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2023 5:46 pm

As I always say, never say never.
So we have 3 still.
She got away last night. I just watched her eating a small bird. My heart sings.
Will post photo when I get to computer

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:39 pm

Thank goodness! :10sum:

Miracles do happen! :loveshow:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 63313

I don't know if any of you remember this, but a long time ago when we first started watching the WE nests, there was a GHO that kept trying to take the box...was it Pleasant Prairie? Gosh, can't remember...yet the falcons were there. I think Greg Septon got so concerned, the following year, they boarded up that box...or something like that...my memory ain't what it used to be. I remember having a huge discussion on forum about how vulnerable an adult falcon and especially a chick would be in the box...but out in the open, an adult falcon would probably have the upper hand (or talon..) and could possibly injure the much larger GHO if it was caught off guard of if the falcon approached from above....at least that was the theory..

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:14 pm

skygirlblue wrote:

:dancing3: :wave

I don't know if any of you remember this, but a long time ago when we first started watching the WE nests, there was a GHO that kept trying to take the box...was it Pleasant Prairie? Gosh, can't remember...yet the falcons were there. I think Greg Septon got so concerned, the following year, they boarded up that box...or something like that...my memory ain't what it used to be. I remember having a huge discussion on forum about how vulnerable an adult falcon and especially a chick would be in the box...but out in the open, an adult falcon would probably have the upper hand (or talon..)

I remember that SGB. He tried having another box in same area for a year maybe 2. So falcons and owls nesting. but I cannot re ember how that turned out.
yes, if a falcon is in air it can out fly owl. but stationary, well**** Who knows maybe the adutl female is somewhere healing. Would that not be great

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:18 pm

here she is.
I saw a falcon fly up to that cliff area, just below where she usually went , around corner and out of sight , early thi s morning. but they did no t see and so did not follow. maybe that was her.

she needs to hide tonight

bev. · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:25 pm

year before last when we had one female juvenile , she went down to left of box area, . thye would have to really zoom down the other cliffs and trees. maybe that is where the others went. maybe safer down there

Stay safe young one.

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2023 11:23 am

bev. wrote:

here she is.
I saw a falcon fly up to that cliff area, just below where she usually went , around corner and out of sight , early thi s morning. but they did no t see and so did not follow. maybe that was her.

she needs to hide tonight

It was her, Bev. P60! :10sum:

She must have learned her lesson to stay away from the nestbox at night!

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:10 pm **Posts:** 6068

skygirlblue wrote:

I agree Bev. and Shep...definitely a success this year...no jumping chicks because of biting flies, etc.

Wait...Shep, Jaycee was seen today? She's OK?

I'm so confused. I thought there was concern that the GHO got her??

RRP never mentioned owl -
Barbara on Explore posted that.
A couple others began wailing
Then pics were posted of her eating so she's fine.

I WAITED a day before posting what I did - *sigh* .. oh well - I made the correction

bev - thanks for pics!

RRP had plenty of discussions over owls.
One year the owl took one young - came back another night and took the other.
Mama Nova never returned to our box.

Several years ago during the summer I was watching live and saw GHO go inside the box. I thought she was going to nest there. There was LOTS of hooting of both male & female owls.

:15heartbeat:

catwoman · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:59 am

I remember that--the owl taking the 2 juvies and the black flies. There was a black fly problem a couple of years earlier then last year. This box has so many problems with owls. I don't know what they can do about that. :girlsad3:

We enjoy watching this watching this cam so much, but you have to have nerves of steel!

bev. · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2023 12:30 pm

can they put bars along entrance to box like some of ours do.

catwoman · **Posted:** Sat Jul 01, 2023 5:45 pm

Good idea, Bev! :CLAPS:

Shepherd · **Joined:** Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:10 pm **Posts:** 6068

bev. wrote:

can they put bars along entrance to box like some of ours do.

I bet ONE bar'd keep an owl out
They snatch so fast - a bar'd slow it down so parent could stop it

this is nature - it happens - here we just see it

Terka · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2023 8:10 am

On July 2, there was a female with a ring on the shelf (53/W)

Great Spirit Bluff Falcons Adult Banded Falcon (explore.org 07 02 2023)
video - Lizzy G Eaglespirit - https://youtu.be/gkIkTvd_YWE

viewtopic.php?p=528335#p528335

:egg16:

53/W - Lisa 2018 - We Energies Pleasant Prairie Power Plant

In the morning, Newman attacked the raccoon.

:egg7:

https://youtu.be/eRRcIRKlKS0

catwoman · **Posted:** Mon Jul 03, 2023 11:52 am

Thank you, Terka! :egg19:

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