Riverside on Sunday
I didn’t stay long, but I got to see a copulation from about 15 feet. It was over almost before it began.
Saturday, 3-15-08
The female is now joining the male at fly out. Both seem to be going deep into the Loch quickly after flyout. I wonder if they have hunted all of the mice near the nest cavity!
Saturday In The Early Evening At The Cathedral
The new male has settled right in.
Saturday at Riverside Park
The young Riverside Park couple continues to look like they know what they’re doing. I wouldn’t be surprised if the female doesn’t start to nest soon.
City College Nest
It looks like I’ll have to go back in the morning. I went Saturday and Sunday afternoons and the action was quiet. James O’Brien got some great shots this morning, so I guess I’ll have to get up early on Saturday.
Sunday, 3-9-08
I arrived to find a tree and a very large limb of an adjacent tree had fallen down near the Owls roost tree. The trees had taken down the Y shaped tree, we had taken to calling the sex tree, since it was the site of many copulations.
Luckily, there was no sign of any injured animals or birds. The tree that lost a large limb, is home to at least five raccoons. We saw four of them leave other parts of the tree this evening. Hopefully, we just missed seeing the others.
Fly out ended up being fairly standard, although we lost the owl at first, we were able rediscover him and track the owl for about ten minutes.
