Alright, after a long, very quiet period on the tower, we have some happenings to report:

-Lou was last seen at the tower in early January.
-Annie has been less frequent on camera for the past few weeks as well -In the past couple of days, we've noticed that Annie has been "chatting" with someone offscreen.
-This other falcon showed up on cam for the first time today. It is definitely not Lou.
-The new male today spent time in the nest box and hanging out near Annie and...

Spectacular sequence from moon_rabbit_rising (instagram.com/moon_rabbit_ri…).

Lou brings food to Rosa, she tries to grab it from his beak…

1/5 He drops it…

2/5

Happy Father’s Day, Lou! Today we celebrate your first breeding season at the Campanile and your three adventurous fledglings exploring the world for the first time! You have been an excellent partner to Annie and a wonderful teacher and provider to your chicks. Of course, we also want to take this moment to honor the dads that have lived at the Campanile in years prior. Alden was a bright light in a dark time that rescued an otherwise lost breeding season after Grinnell’s loss.

The past three years, we have celebrated Father's Day with this silly little photoshop of Grinnell. Father's day typically has fallen at a time in the breeding season where everything was winding down a little bit, the chicks were all flying and learning to hunt on their own. This year has been a season like no other. On March 31st, we thought there was almost no chance that we would have a successful breeding season. But then we all got to experience one of those rare alignments of circumstance that salvaged some positivity from a tragic event.