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Author Topic: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN  (Read 2727 times)

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2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« on: January 13, 2025, 01:18:45 PM »
Welcome to the 2025 Xcel Riverside falcons/herons thread! Watch live here: https://www.raptorresource.org/birdcams/xcel-energy-cams/#peregrines and please share your observations and screenshots in this thread! We are especially interested in band numbers, egg-laying dates, and hatch dates.

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Re: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2025, 11:13:45 AM »
Just turned camera back to the nestbox. Found a pigeon head last week when I went to change out gravel, so falcons are clearly around.

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Re: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2025, 09:50:22 PM »
Are we going to get to see the peregrines this year?  Last year it was just the herons?
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Re: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2025, 05:24:57 PM »
YES!!!!  A falcon!!!  :)
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Re: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2025, 10:15:52 AM »
Nothing like a peregrine in the morning light  :)

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Re: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2025, 11:41:46 PM »
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Re: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2025, 09:56:33 AM »
One was there during the night for a while.  At 9:44 one flew by and then the other one flew in and perched.............
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Re: 2025 Xcel Energy Riverside Peregrine Falcons/Great Blue Herons, Mpls., MN
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2025, 02:41:59 PM »
So pretty! :D

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