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Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

sallyls — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:18:39 GMT

I do not have Russell's email address. I was wondering if someone who does might ask him if there is anyway to adjust the layout of the hawk cam page so that the nest cam is higher on the page? It makes it difficult to monitor while doing other things with the frequent refresh, since to view the cam I have to scroll down past "Update" to view it every time the page reloads. I don't know how hard it is to realign a web page, but I was thinking if the "update" could go in the column below the hawk links and video box, then the nest cam could be higher on the page just below the welcome?

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

sallyls — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:12:07 GMT

8:26 a.m. quick glance at nest while panning to a new view. Empty nest, couldn't get a capture.

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

catgirl — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:33:18 GMT

Saturday morning around 8:15 am (Nov.14th), on my way to do some Saturday morning errands, I could see in the distance a shape on the goldenrod.
With the new bagel shop at the base of the nesting tower, Saturday morning is not the time to find a close parking place. In fact, anytime of day around there now my good spotting spots are getting more difficult to nab.
Is it Kay? Nope, begins with a K, is playing like its a Kay ..... but just the pestery kestral. It perched on the goldenrod, next to the camera, under the nest, above the nest, etc...... delusions of grandeur!

www.flickr.com/photos/cheryls_camera

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

Observer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:27:29 GMT

CamFan:
Sally, most people on this Forum, compared to me are "Pros"!!! I've learned a lot about Raptors since last March, but prior to this, if it wasn't a cardinal, chickadee, or any bird seen in central Tulsa, then I'd be lost!

Bville, once again, thank you for posting the screen shot of the nest! And KJRH, thank you for showing the tidy nest!

I echo that... It does look quite tidy doesn't it HUM!!

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

CamFan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:38:30 GMT

Sally, most people on this Forum, compared to me are "Pros"!!! I've learned a lot about Raptors since last March, but prior to this, if it wasn't a cardinal, chickadee, or any bird seen in central Tulsa, then I'd be lost!

Bville, once again, thank you for posting the screen shot of the nest! And KJRH, thank you for showing the tidy nest!

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

Bville — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:25:13 GMT

A timely capture of The Nest this morning at 10:22, by CamFan:

Bless the Vets

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

sallyls — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:06:42 GMT

Bville, Cam- I have not been signing out, just leving it on in hopes of catching glimpses when I can, back and forth and back again. Sorry I missed Kestrels ride!

Not a professional, just trying to share whatever knowledge I think I posses!11

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

CamFan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:50:06 GMT

LOL, Bville, thorough inspection indeed!!! Thank you so much for posting the screen capture and for answering my SOS - "whose tail is this?" I knew if anyone could research it, it would be you!

Thank you Sally for your professional input also! You were actually signed on when the tail landed on the camera (but probably outside inhaling fresh air?).

The tail was pretty all fanned out , but I was slow to register at first what it was since I'd seen nothing but wasps flying by the camera all day! By the time my brain said 'bird', the tail had folded up. The kestrel took a ride as the camera was moving into position for the 5 PM newscast, but must not have liked it because it levitated upward ? and disappeared (didn't see it fly away).

Thank you again! You're both awesome!!!

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

Bville — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:21:19 GMT

Thanks, Sallyls, for the ID. I figured you could make heads, er, tails, of CamFan's capture. I was a bit confused by what appeared to be more than one black tail band in CamFan's shot, as compared to the kestrel in flight above, who looked to have just one band. Of course, the latter photo was made at some distance, and could be less revealing of details. Is there a difference between the number of black bands on the undersides of the male's and female's tails?

Raptors should take note that any tail spotted on or around the Tower is going to get a thorough inspection by our eager eyes.

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

sallyls — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:08:43 GMT

That is a cute little juvenile male kestrel. Next year he should have a rusty tail with a black terminal band and less if any flecks on a solid rusty chest. Great shots! Note the solid rusty tail on the mature male kestrel pestering Kay on the golden rod shot a few posts above here.

Edit- you know, I think this may be a Female's tail. The outer feathers of the male have the barring but the tail, even in the juvenile, is solid rusty color. Perhaps it was Mama kestrel perched on the camera. The shots I caught before were a rusty tail with the black and then thin white terminal tial bands.

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

Bville — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:28:15 GMT

On CamFan's behalf, I'm posting this capture from the Hawk Cam at 4:45 p.m today. We think this may be the tail of one of the kestrels who have been frequenting the Tower. The bars on the tail's underside (I'm assuming it's the underside) appear similar to those in a Web photo of a kestrel, though a closer comparison with the kestrel in Catgirl's recent photos isn't as conclusive.
CamFan's capture

Kestrel from the Web

photo from http://tinyurl.com/y897ocn

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

mamafrog — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:45:27 GMT

Quick view of the nest this afternoon - thank you camera man!!

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

catgirl — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:24:08 GMT

Sorry to burst your balloon, bville!!!

They may very well nest somewhere on the tower - a few nooks and crannys we cannot see or do not bother looking at.

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

Bville — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:34:04 GMT

catgirl:
Here is a photo of that area from last January. I think what you see now are the remains of that object - (star shaped mylar helium balloon with streamers off the points?!)

Aha, mystery solved. Thanks. Those thinner projections at lower right were what I'd noticed. Hadn't made out the blue and red until I enlarged. Shucks

from Catgirl's photo

Re: Kay and Jay 2nd Season: After Eggs 4/07/09

Observer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:16:25 GMT

Fantastic. I am at a lose for words. It is all so exciting. Thank all of you for your input.