Category Archives: breeding

Falcon Alert…

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch has experienced a temporary set back due to the absence of Bob Isenberg. I have undergone back surgery and am recuperating doing lots of rehabilitation at Bayside Care Center in Morro Bay, CA. Not to fear … Continue reading →

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Love on a ledge…

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

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 →

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Better late than never…

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

Observation date: 9 February 2020 Normal courtship and breeding at Morro Rock begins around New Year’s Day, sometimes a week on either side. This year, however, has been anything but normal. The first copulation was observed February 6th with little … Continue reading →

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Incubation continues…

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

Observation date:  8 April 2019 Today, as close as I can figure, we should be in the twenty first day of incubation. Normal incubation for the peregrine falcon is 31-33 days. However, it is difficult to discern when egg laying … Continue reading →

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Basking in the afterglow…

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

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 →

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Beginning of a long wait…

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

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 →

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Breeding begins…

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

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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South 0, North 2…

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

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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Befuddled…

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

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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Winter Bird Festival…

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch

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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