Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2010 / Ivy & Princess
ballywing:
Woo Hoo, saw Princess on the 'J' too!!! - Got out my binocs and everything! ;D ;D Be patient Princess, your Prince will come!! :-*
The Peregrine Chick:
1140 hrs - and now a note on the birds themselves ... Princess is on the J of the JR Sign, other bird is out of my sightline if he's even around. She's mostly been absent for the cam-zone this morning but I'm still not seeing the usual "come-hither" I usually see at this time of the year when she's "dating".
The Peregrine Chick:
For those worried about Trey, adult survival rates after year 2 are about 80% last time I looked so though he is older, he still has a good chance of coming home - and he looked good last year so I can't say he's showing his age any.
If you check out the Alberta/Edmonton/Weber Building board, Bev is reporting that the Alberta females with transmitters haven't even started moving north yet - I believe they are in the mid-US waiting out the storms (if they are still there) but they aren't pushing yet, so Trey may not be either.
And finally, was talking with BCBird and I did a little date check, today we are 4 days after Trey's return in 2009 (which was early-ish for him) and we still have 4 days until the date he return in 2008 (the 31st). And we have had birds come back later than that and had perfect nests so don't panic yet folks, we aren't there yet!!
carly:
Lol...good way to keep a perspective on things! TPC, since you are here, can i run something else by you? I'll go to my Etobicoke thread to ask you as it's related.
The Peregrine Chick:
Nothing wrong with being emotional about your peregrines and your site (despite what lots of biologists say), but one needs to keep an eye on the fact that the peregrines have absolutely no awareness or sentiment about you. Sounds wierd, but if you realize that you don't register on their awareness as anything other than say, an ant, then it can make it easier to take a step back when you have to find solutions or possible explanations without having to give up on your attachment for the individual birds and their lives. If you are an ant, how exactly do they see the world? In a way that we can't even comprehend. Notice I don't say imagine, because we can imagine all sorts of things, but while we may be imagine flying, it would be the equivalent of a peregrine imagining it was a person snowshoeing. You can imagine a human flying, but not a peregrine. But more importantly, we can't comprehend a flying peregrine, how it does it, why it does it, where or when or what is involved, what it sees, hears, tastes or feels like. And we can't comprehend what the peregrine experiences doing all of these things - and that's the point at which you realize that you are an ant to a peregrine, totally out of its comprehension and unlike us, it doesn't care that it can't figure us out.
Okay, thay may not be as clear as you would like but hey, comprehending the TPC may be as difficult as a flying peregrine ;)
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