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STLbf

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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #195 on: May 15, 2024, 12:00:28 PM »
That was a great snap from Nora!  Perhaps we were too hasty to dismiss egg-laying for this year.  Or maybe just strong bonding for next year.
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Nora in IA

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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #196 on: May 15, 2024, 03:21:04 PM »
It would be nice, but pretty late in the season to lay eggs, brood the eggs, get them to fledge, and teach them to hunt.  Let's go for lots of bonding and keeping her around.  :)
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #197 on: May 19, 2024, 02:44:00 PM »
Ya, Nora, it's bonding time for Newman and U-09.  Closeups today show that she's growing some adult gray-blue feathers on her shoulders and back.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #198 on: May 19, 2024, 03:31:54 PM »
Aww she's growing up.  She IS young.
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Re: 2024 Great Spirit Bluff Falcons
« Reply #199 on: Yesterday at 11:38:38 AM »
Yes, U-09 is going to be fully adult by the end of this summer, and we can hope for a successful breeding season in 2025.

Wild columbine in bloom now at the GSB bluffs for wildflower lovers.
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