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McKenzie Seeds - 2010 / Brooklyn & Hurricane

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bccs:
And it was a grand visit but as Rose said, much too short. Amazing what can be shared in twenty minutes.  ;D

Kinderchick:
So glad to hear that you and rcf had a visit with another Winnipeg peregrine phanatic, bccs, Rose! :D And nice to hear your report regarding Brooklyn & Hurricane... I was looking back at the July Brandon thread and I noticed that rcf spoke of some workmen climbing the tower on July 22nd. Is this the same tower that you are speaking about and if so, have they been working on installing the new equipment since then? What buliding is this tower on? I can't remember.  :-\ I don't think it's the MacKenzie Seed Bldg. Is it the building to the right of the MacKenzie Seed Bldg., when looking at it from the parkade? :-\   

Rose:
Met BCCS on the Mckenzie Seeds parking lot (RCF's coffee break) had a good but short visit and gossip ;D sure was nice to see her again :)
When I first got down town, Brooklyn was in the nest box but didn't seem to be doing any cleaning lol, Hurricane was perched on the east light and when I was leaving Brooklyn was still at the nest box but on the perch, Hurricane was now on the south light.
 I don't think any one of us has mentioned that there have been workmen installing new equipment on the tower and they were on the tower the day MacKenzie had her accident, since then we have never seen either adult on the tower.

RCF:
Thank you, I kind of thought screeching was one of the reasons he got that name.  ;D

The Peregrine Chick:

--- Quote from: Rapidcitymbfan on August 01, 2010, 13:51 ---Tracy, I would like to know how Brooklyn got his name and also his Dad, Keener-Skreech.(not sure if spelled correctly) It seems quite an unusual name?

--- End quote ---

Two stories there, actually three, but I only know the answer to two though I should have the third by the time I'm finished our family trees ...

1) Brooklyn - the young biologist helping out Manitoba Conservation the year Brooklyn was "born" was also expecting his first child.  So he and his wife had chosen two girl's names and two boy's names for their impending offspring.  When we informed this nice young man that he was going to be naming the chicks, he begged us to let him off the hook because he was all wrung out from the offspring name selection process.  We were mean and said no.  He then asked if he could use the names he'd chosen for his child and we said yes, so long as he wasn't superstitious if his child's namesake died.  (He assured us he wasn't but I'm afraid I don't know if they used any of the four names they had chosen at the time the chicks were banded).  Brooklyn was one of the girl's names but it works for a male as well when we took off the second "n".   With a 50-70% mortality rate in the first year, the statistical chances that one name out of a whole nest survives is not great, Brooklyn beat the odds - must of been the removal of the second "n"!

2) Keener-Screech - this is the two story name - I don't know exactly how he got the name "Keener" but I can probably guess given what kind of acrobatics/behaviours are common among peregrine chicks.  As for Screech, when he was paired up with Holly in Brandon for one year (Zeus was on sabbatical) he was ten years old and fully capable of going after Dan on the ladder as well as anyone else on the roof that came near his babies.  He like to scream, more of a screech, as he came for you, bit like a battle cry as he leapt into action.  We didn't remember what his original name was (he was 10 years old when he mated with Holly) so we started calling him Screech - there might have been a couple of expletives in there as well, I can't really remember.  A year or so later, I found is original name in the records and he became hypenated as they both seem to apply - he is keen to beat the crap out of anyone near his chicks and he does screech while he does it!

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