Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2009 / Trey & Princess
Pchemist:
was cool watching the takeoff and flight below in the street - nice to have had the wide view when that happened. ;D
Mother Hen:
Yea it do look like she was backing up over one of the babies to shield him/her. didn't last too long. The chick sure can move. All three are against the ledge over looking Smith Street.
Pchemist:
I'm not sure they actually do try to shade the chicks any more or if that's just what it looks like. I thought I read TPC saying that after the chicks can regulate on their own they are really on their own for that part. We've certainly seen Trey in a different part of the ledge cooling off and the chicks are all elsewhere.
It just looks really hot on the ledge - I'm sure it's much warmer there than at street level. I have worked on my own roof and it gets BLAZING.
AmyB:
Can't you just install a giant firefighter bounce blanket across the length of the street, just above the cars? ;)
Question for TPC - I can't remember this. If a chick fledges and lands on a ledge or something lower down and can't figure out how to get back up to the nest ledge, do the parents feed it? Or does it just have to figure it out and that's how they learn?
Holly-Birdeze:
She's a hot one out there already! 10:44 am...24 C or 75 F. Princess is shading the little ones as best she can. Thought she was munching on something too. I bet she can't wait until after noon when the ledge starts to shade...ahhhh much better.
I too had a "hot bird" in the aviary yesterday. Ricky was doing the exact same thing as Princess does with her wings- spreads them out a bit to "air condition" their body. Luckily I can bring myn in or "hose/mist" them and they love love love it!
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