2020 Season - Return of the 367 Collins Street "Peregrine Falcons" - 'LIVE' Stream

PLEASE USE THIS LINK TO SEE:

https://www.367collinsfalcons.com.au/

Wow - how exciting!  The beautiful Peregrine Falcons atop the Collins Street Skyscraper in Melbourne are back again this year!

So many of us had fun last year watching these birds come and go as they raised their "new family" from eggs to teaching them how to fly!

There were a couple of "sad" times when the chicks didn't make it as Mother Nature took over ...but the majority of the time it was so great to pop in every day to see how they were doing and watch them being fed and grow from fluffy chicks into young adults...    :))

There is also a write-up (courtesy of the ABC) of how the boxes have just been refubished after many years as the Bird Society people thought they were getting too dangerous for the birds and they might not return!  

The birds did return - they are here now ....so enjoy the wonderful 2020 Falcon family .... 

I have enlisted the kind help of RnR to add the links on a post below if possible please?

EDIT Thanks RnR here they are:

Collins Street's famous falcon nest undergoes renovation in time for breeding season.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-22/new-nesting-boxes-for-melbourne-collins-street-falcons/12582620

And a very difficult job it is too.

The 367 Collins St Falcons Live Stream 2020/2021 is at ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LajHSgeefsk

Many thanks ........

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A Guardian story about the Christmas event Suze.

Then, on Christmas night, news emerged of another drama: a stranded falcon on a Flinders Street apartment balcony. The falcon had come to grief, landed and couldn’t take off. Incredibly, a family of falcon watchers had recognised the young bird. Their message reached a wildlife carer who rang me about 9.30pm. The family showed me into a darkened living room that opened on to the balcony. As soon as she sensed us, the falcon struggled against the glass, panicked and flapping. We turned on our torches and opened the door. I crept up, threw the blanket and grasped her with both hands. Later, at an animal emergency centre, a vet gave the all-clear. The wildlife carer took her for observation overnight and the next day all was well. We released her at Treasury Gardens.

On Boxing Day she takes to the air. Photograph: Nalini Scarfe Photography.



Thanks RnR

I thought it was brilliant bit of photography

.... loook at the eyes, they are so much like mum's

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