Other Peregrine Projects > Canadian Peregrines
ON / Etobicoke - Bloor & Islington / 2008-21
carly:
Three Eyases just confirmed!!! Both parents on site dive bombing Frank..!! More details later when I get home!!
;D ;D ;D
carly:
All quiet here today, things are back to normal. Saw Jack 3 times today and he stayed awhile. Saw food in Angels' talons come off the ledge this morning but caught the tail end of what was happening.
Without further ado some photos from yesterday that tell us..well something is under her judging by her body but until we see a fluffy it's all speculation!
Alison:
Many thanks for the updates, Carly! What a stressful situation for all the birds involved in this mess - not to mention the humans.
I hope tomorrow will bring better news, and that meantime, Jack and Milton will stay away from each other. I don't like the sound of Milton having trouble landing - maybe a leg injury?
carly:
Thank you as always TPC for your perspective and experience, I'd be lost without it!
You are no doubt correct about Jack sneaking in without us seeing as when Frank went up today - he saw food in the one cache he could see from up there! Jack was outside today at about 11:30, I had just come out so don't know how long or short his visit was as he left within 5 minutes of my spotting him and headed up in TR direction.
Milton was not on site, I checked everywhere this morning so he hopefully got to a safer place at first light.
What I meant about the juvie comment...was he had brown on him and he was puffy as you said - I sometimes have trouble articulating what I see especially when I'm wound up on nerves! Mathew confirmed today that he did have brown on him too. I think I was just over excited and freaked out about the way he looked..I was worried he was hurt but what you have explained helps me understand now what I was seeing and why - thank you for that!. And he was preening later on, in fact he seemed overly concerned with his appearance to me. Poor guy!
When Frank went up to the rooftop today, it was 10 degrees and really windy and cold wind chill. Angel did not budge, would not move out of that nest box...not surprising given the weather. He said she glared at him the entire time but was not giving up any secrets. He did some leftover food he thinks. He got some photos and will send them to me tonight when he gets home and perhaps I will see something that indicates a chick(s) presence.
The Peregrine Chick:
Hey Carly,
First thing, keep in mind that you can't watch everywhere all at once. Jack may very well be coming back to Angel but using the TR site as his base of operations - perhaps because he has better lines of sight from there. And if he's close enough to be involved with both females then he is close enough to know what is going on at both sites. I had a male at the Radisson that I almost never saw - for two years. Freaked me out. And the first year T-Rex arrived, he actually used to crawl under tiny overhangs (he was small) when he needed a break, he'd crawl under and go to sleep knowing no one could spot him, I found him one day, purely by chance, and an extraordinary one at that!
And the territorial defense you saw, that's pretty standard. Since Milton isn't all hopped up on hormones right now, it could be that he was reticient to get himself in to deep since it sounds like Jack was in a 'roid rage at the time. And yes, females will join in on the chase though actual fights tend to be gender-specific.
Milton, hmm molting. Molting won't make him look like a juvie. Not in a million years. And peregrines like all birds of prey don't lose enough feathers at one time to imperil their ability to fly or hunt or anything else, they lose a feather at a time. The "spin-cycle" look you saw on the bird, when they've had a set-to, with humans or anything else, its very usual for them to puff up like that when they come to roost. It can be a quick way of seeing how stressed/harrassed a bird is after a visit, watch and see how long it takes them to flatten out their feathers so they look sleek again or until they start preening.
Would Angel be chupping at Milton? Guess it depends on whether she recognizes him as the mate she wants to be with. If Jack is decreasing his visits to her, she may very well be happy to see Milton if he starts to slip into his "provider" role. T-Rex took over a clutch of his father's in mid-incubation so I know for sure that its possible. Why would she fly after him but chup at him on the nest. One theory (note the word theory, I just don't know your birds well enough to say for sure) could be that when he's being chased by Jack, she joins in to protect the site. When he's sitting quietly outside the box and Jack isn't there protesting, she might recognize him as not a threat. Just a theory though.
Hope some of this helps ... even if it only gives you more things to look out for ...
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