Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2008 / Trey & Princess
The Peregrine Chick:
Morning Early Birds! :D
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Liz on June 05, 2008, 22:49 ---my two cents... I also don't think there are any night feedings, but TPC will tell us. And, prob Trey spends the night on the Radisson sign. I keep trying to see him from my window at work during the day, but three blocks away and no binocs, kinda hard. Get a good view of Princess when she's on the JR sign, tho. Well... a smallish view, but I can still tell she's there and that makes me happy!
And, I can't see anything either anymore -- It's dark here!
--- End quote ---
One or the other adult will spend the night on the chicks or sitting on the nest ledge when the chicks are older all night. The other adult is usually not very far away just in case. As for feedings, nope, no food for the babs when its dark. That's why there is a late feeding in the evening and as soon as they can catch something in the am - that's the feeding most folks miss. :D
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: BirdLover on June 05, 2008, 19:01 ---Holy smokes! :o I haven't seen our babies for a couple of days and, WOW, have they grown. I guess that means that mum and dad are doing a great job. Keep up the good work Princess and Trey!!! ;)
--- End quote ---
FYI - the chicks have in fact doubled in mass since they were hatched.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Loriann on June 05, 2008, 16:29 ---Tracy.. do you recruit 'falcon catchers' when they are fledging from this ledge? I know that the 'watchers' in Hamilton are recruited when the babies are expected to take flight as they are also right downtown. Volunteers are signed up to wait at strategic points and watch for falling lumps of feathers from above. I seem to remember the Radisson people scooping someone off the street last year.. ( thank goodness they were there and willing to help out).
--- End quote ---
We do sort of. Most our birds take their first flights early in the morning (4-6 am) or in the evenings (just before dusk) and that's not an easy time to get folks to want to hang around in downtown Winnipeg. And it isn't just their first flight that is the problem, they are actually in danger for the first week. So need volunteers willing to get up at the crack of dawn and hang around until sunset trying to keep their eye on birds for the first week. Not an easy thing. The location is also difficult because no matter where you stand, it takes the birds a second (literally) to fly out of sight, usually around a building and it will take 20 minutes to get into position where you can see them where they have landed, meantime, they have moved again. That's the problem with being right downtown, lots of high buildings. Usually what ends up happening is that evening flights we generally just make sure they are safely off the street when the sun sets because the chicks won't fly anymore. In the morning, we'll make a sweep to see if we can find them all and again make sure they are safe. And we wait for calls of downed birds (happened twice last year).
--- Quote from: Loriann on June 05, 2008, 16:29 --- And a bit off topic for here, but I see that we have more and more 'new' people joining us.. welcome one and all, but this also peaks my curiosity.. one small request.. if everyone could just post where they are watching from the next time they post. I am interested to see just how far and wide we all hail from.
--- End quote ---
You are welcome to ask, and folks are welcome to participate or not, though the Peregrine Room is a better location for this.
Liz:
I don't think that happens. Guess you were just lucky!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version