Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
DE / Wilmington - 2009-15
Linder:
Checked in on the BCAW site and apparently, the female which is being referred to Red Girl and the male CJ for Caesar Jr have been canoodling. The male has been working on scrapes (2) in the nest box and it could be a sign that in the next few days eggs could be laid. He is very attentive to the female and brings many presents for her eating enjoyment. Hopefully this will be a successful site after all the turmoil this season.
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on May 21, 2010, 09:42 ---Shiny doesn't have anything to do with viability Kinderchick, I just noticed how shiny they were. Our eggs aren't that shiny, more of a matte finish on them. Except for our dummy eggs, which are fake eggs used to keep peregrines incubating while plans for fostering or something similar is put into place. The eggs at Wilmington weren't dummy eggs but looked like them. Interesting is all ...
--- End quote ---
Oh... And that is interesting about using "dummy" eggs to keep peregrines incubating, when plans for fostering are put into place. 8) I didn't know that!
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on May 19, 2010, 13:21 ---
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on May 04, 2010, 16:17 ---I should say that the eggs look shiny .... too shiny ??? to my eye ...
--- End quote ---
What exactly does this mean, if eggs look shiny? :-\ Is that how one can tell that eggs may not be viable? ???
--- End quote ---
Shiny doesn't have anything to do with viability Kinderchick, I just noticed how shiny they were. Our eggs aren't that shiny, more of a matte finish on them. Except for our dummy eggs, which are fake eggs used to keep peregrines incubating while plans for fostering or something similar is put into place. The eggs at Wilmington weren't dummy eggs but looked like them. Interesting is all ...
carly:
In an interesting twist here..the new male is the son of the previous male who went missing. Like Ivy he must have been hanging out near his birth home somewhere.
jadoo:
...the eggs were removed, since a new male showed up, and courtship rituals were observed; there seems to be a new scrape in the nest area, and I believe they are hoping that it might not be too late for the female to lay a second clutch...saw one of them in the nest box this morning, seemingly inspecting the entire area...TPC, how hard is it on the female to produce 4 eggs, then perhaps produce more within a month or so?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version