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Tag Archives: breeding
Love on a ledge…
20 February 2023 The peregrines continue breeding daily, about every hour or so, but not always where we can observe them. Yesterday we did watch the pair breed twice on the skyline an hour and ten minutes apart. That first … Continue reading
Knitting…
3 March 2021 After months of watching and waiting with nothing to write about, today I was rewarded. I spent 90% of my time on the south side of Morro Rock logging in four to six hours a day trying … Continue reading
Basking in the afterglow…
Observation date: 23 February 2019 In a normal year, breeding starts around the first of January. I have spent three to six hours a day, every day, since November of last year and not seen the birds copulate. Not until … Continue reading
Beginning of a long wait…
Observation date: 12 March 2018 After spending a month shopping for a new nest site, the pair of falcons on the north side settled on last year’s eyrie where they had a failed nesting. Yesterday and today they started incubation. … Continue reading
January fun…
Observation date: 27 January 2018 On the north side, breeding continues daily with air shows in between. A spectacular display of speed and acrobatics by the tiercel were today’s highlights. Not to mention a noon repast of Snowy Egret which … Continue reading
Breeding begins…
Observation date: 8 January 2017 Breeding could have happened before today, but I can only report when I see it happen. Last year, the pair were breeding on January 3rd. There is a three week window when this normally takes … Continue reading
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Tagged breeding, courtship, falcon, Morro Rock, peregrines, prey
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South 0, North 2…
Observation date: 13 May 2016 After spending the first five months of the breeding season on the south side of Morro Rock which turned out to be very disheartening, we have moved to the north side for the last week … Continue reading
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Tagged breeding, chicks, falcon, Morro Rock, peregrines
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Befuddled…
Observation date: 11 April 2016 Things are just in a tizzy here at Morro Rock. I can’t give the answers to many visitors we get here because when it comes to nesting, I just don’t know. Both pairs of falcons … Continue reading
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Tagged breeding, falcon, incubation, peregrines
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Winter Bird Festival…
Observation date: 19 January 2016 Throngs of birders, twitchers and photographers were on hand for the twentieth Annual Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival which takes place every year on the Martin Luther King holiday. Along with the high surf crashing … Continue reading
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Tagged breeding, falcon, Harris Hawk, Morro Bay, Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival, owl, peregrines, visitor, winter
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On schedule…
Observation date: 25 February 2015 Breeding of the peregrine falcons continues at Morro Rock with copulations occurring every forty to fifty minutes. Occasionally, longer or shorter depending on the day’s activities, i.e. eating, hunting or chasing of other predators. Such … Continue reading
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