Good morning.
Father’s Day in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset is 8:35, for 15 hours, 19 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 82.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1846, the Oregon Treaty extends the border between the United States and British North America, established by the Treaty of 1818, westward to the Pacific Ocean.
The American Kestrel Cam saw all five of its female fledglings take flight between June 13 and 15—and we’ve compiled their first flights into one amazing supercut!
With the nest box behind them, the fledglings will still depend on their parents for food as they practice flying and learn how to hunt. For now, these siblings will stick close to one another, and they may gradually form small groups with other juveniles as they grow stronger and more independent. Soon, they’ll set off to claim their own territories!
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Watch the cams live at https://www.allaboutbirds.org/kestrels
The American Kestrel cam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab or Ornithology and the Raptor Resource Project.
This American Kestrel pair is nesting in a gravel-bottomed nest on private property near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The nest box is located on the side of a traditional limestone-footed barn, overlooking a rolling grassland that slopes away into folded hills and forests. Our partners at the Raptor Resource Project have watched kestrels breed at this site for over 25 years, and the wonderful combination of grassland, forest, and water that surrounds the property is an excellent example of the habitat that kestrels need to survive and thrive. Watch cam.
The young birds begin to hatch out of their eggs after about a month of incubation. Over the following 3-4 weeks, the nestlings will transform from downy bobbleheads to sleek, dull versions of their parents on a diverse diet of invertebrates, small mammals, and birds (watch this highlight of the female feeding the young). After fledging, the young will continue to be cared for by their parents, remaining near the nest as they learn to hunt and master flight.
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