Falcon nesting...

Aug 3, 2025 9:03 AM

halexic

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If she comes back next year tell her I love her

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Nice work with the safety rail and sun shade.

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I like your lowercase birds.

1 year ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

#11 ya'll got any snacks up in here?

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

In every Pic, they are judging you lol. Thank you for giving them a safe place to grow

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's cool! Now get off my marigolds!

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's really wonderful to see them grow up like that.

1 year ago | Likes 282 Dislikes 1

It's kind of the ideal situation. I find the whole premise of owning a bird to be painful, because these creatures have the gift of flight and are kept from being able to exercise it. Sure, some get to fly around the room of a house for a bit... but they don't get to fly in the great outdoors. I just hope their comfort of being around the humans in that house isn't presumed for other people. Random humans are a nasty bunch. You just never know...

1 year ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

#4 "Heart Shaped Mouth." 🥰

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ooh, pretty birb

1 year ago | Likes 108 Dislikes 1

*bird

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 15

Nope, clearly a birb.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Looks like OP now has an air force.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

This is the kind of post I love to start my day with ❤️

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Those lives were mine, to love and cherish..to guard and guide along life's way...Oh, God forbid.. that one should perish, that one at last should go astray..."

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Careful if you don't want to end with one of these on your balcony

1 year ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Is that an Aluminum Falcon?

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah yes, the murder parrots

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Dang! You are *so lucky*, OP, getting to see such amazing little guys hatch and grow up. ^_^ I am very jealous, but thank you so much for sharing! Made my day.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

A blessing. I hope you left them some treats.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#9 falcon with a mom haircut; now I've seen everything

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And she'd like to see the manager to complain about having her picture taken.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You lucky bastard.

I would be sooo putting “Friend of Falcons” on my LinkedIn if I was you.

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Awww look a dems babies!

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Falcons are such derps, I love them.

1 year ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

I’m pretty sure these are kestrels, so even derpier!!

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Danger derps +1

1 year ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I would have a new pet bird and a falconry certification by the end of this for sure…

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I like the birbs. Thank you for sharing.

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

D'aaaaaawwwwwww! My heart can only barely take it!

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Wow @op where is this?

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Wow how cool!! Meanwhile I get a pigeon nest on my balcony with 6 sticks and poop everywhere.

1 year ago | Likes 200 Dislikes 3

LOL!

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

6 sticks for a nest. It's like you got the mcmansion of pigeon nests

1 year ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Pigeon poop?

1 year ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

asking the real important questions here!

1 year ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Pigeons evolved to nest on high rocky cliffs, so their sticks are like zip-ties to a Pallet Jack. Just have to arrest the roll.

1 year ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

They say birds of a feather, flock together

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They're lucky kids. They've found a nice, safe place and a friend.

1 year ago | Likes 477 Dislikes 1

Aren’t falcons known for being dicks to other birds by swooping down real fast and killing them?

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That’s called “hunting.”

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Now they're habituated to humans, though, which is very bad.

1 year ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

Wow 5 is a large clutch for peregrins. Mom and dad must have been busy keeping them all fed.

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They’re not peregrines, though; I’m fairly certain that they’re Eurasian Kestrels!

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, they very much look like Kestrels.
Certainly not Peregrines, as they are way too small for that.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What a lot of work for that little mom. I hope the dad helped.

1 year ago | Likes 57 Dislikes 6

Some say he’s still out buying cigarettes

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why? Those birds have evolved to survive so neither parent is doing anything wrong

1 year ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

with falcons the dad usually hunts and the mom is tearing up the prey and feeds it to the chickens.

1 year ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Damn, they have farm animals, too??

1 year ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Everyone needs a side hustle these days. They sell the chickens to the cats upstairs who can’t go down to hunt for themselves.

1 year ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Females incubate at night and males partially incubate during the day. Once etched, both parents go out to find food. There is no mom doing the hard work and dad helping, there's a couple working together to assure the survival of as many as possible of their offspring.

1 year ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 0

+1. This, incidentally, is why for raptors the female is larger than the male. The male can easily bring back a stream of small prey to feed early on while the female provides more body heat, then as they grow the female can bring back larger prey to satisfy increasing appetites.

1 year ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

In all ratites (ostriches, emus, etc.), the dad does all the child rearing and incubating, with only ostrich moms helping with incubating.

1 year ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That's cool information, I did not know that.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I mean, the moms also put in a lot of energy into making and laying those huge honkin' eggs. Also, emu dad sometimes pick up strays that are lost or orphaned.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0