Radisson - 2008 / Trey & Princess

[skygirlblue]

A parent has returned (looks like trey) empty beaked....the kids are patient...he's (?) just standing above them, looking around...

[skygirlblue]

Mom has just left...maybe to pick up breakfast...the kids are jockying to see who gets to be on the bottom...so cute...oops, and there goes a poop shot...one day I will catch one of those on a pic...

[skygirlblue]

...(I feel like a broken record...)...Still waiting for breakfast, and the natives are gettin restless...playing with rocks, preening, kissing the kids...

[skygirlblue]

Still waiting for breakfast...so I think I'll go have mine....

[skygirlblue]

I think the kids must be stirring...she's not as tight on the chicks...moving around a tad...wiggling and squirming a bit, trying to get comfy.  Back's to the cam...so I can't swear this isn't Trey.  Slight breeze. No breakfast yet..

[skygirlblue]

All's quiet at the scrape right now.  Princess (?) is tight on the chicks, but awake.  No wind...Oh wait, she's dozing off....now's she's awakeThat's the end of my exciting report for now...   I'll check back in later...

[The Peregrine Chick]

Tracy, as I've been watching the various sites I have started to wonder... how on earth do those little ones breathe when they're all crammed together and are being sat on by something so much bigger?  It's not like their little heads are poking out! 

It does make you wonder doesn't it?    The parents aren't actually sitting on them, they are actually standing over them with their wings down around them.  When they are actually lying on them, its mostly feathers that is around the chicks.  Its only the brood patch which actually seems to touch the chicks and that is necessary to transfer heat/warmth to the chicks.  If the chicks don't need to be warmer, the adults keep the brood patch (bare skin) off them.

Its actually a very neat system.

[Liz]

Tracy, as I've been watching the various sites I have started to wonder... how on earth do those little ones breathe when they're all crammed together and are being sat on by something so much bigger?  It's not like their little heads are poking out! 

[Liz]

Hey, SGB.  Thanks for posting that breakfast video.  It was great to see.  I seem to catch more feedings at Elk River than I do with P&T. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

When I check the feed from the cam tomorrow, I'll see if I can't get a better look at the prey and see if I can come up with some ideas as to what it was ... I'll even post a photo of what it looked like alive if I can id it.  Hope to be able to save some of the feed as videos too, but haven't done it before so I'll tell you how it goes and I'll be posting them on the Project website with links from the Photo Gallery when I do.

Really wish Princess would feed from the side for y'all ... but there are lots more meals to watch!

[deedream]

hi Marie, aren't they cute?  Listen to add a comment  on todays viewing of Princess and Trey scroll on down the page to the Radisson Peregrines then click and at the top it says May 31-Observations click in there and post away, everybody loves reading it! I think The Peregrine Chick meant that this here is for comments on her blog that she writes over on the peregrinations page.   Takes a bit to catch on but soon you will be zooming around the forum reading everything!! Take note of the symbols over on the left hand side of the page beside each topic, if its orange colored then there is something new to read since you last looked at that page.  Find that helps too.   

From the Peregrine Chick:  Thanks for helping out Marie!

[Marie]

Just had a great view of the chicks....checked in when Trey(I think) was just about finishing feeding the babes. walked off camera with the remains to discard I guess and babes were left alone for a few seconds....oh so sweet!!!!  a little panic at first as I was just seeing two heads.Now they are tucked away again.First actual view of the babes by themselves. They are just so precious!!!!

Bye.........
Marie

[Liz]

Tracy, thanks for all that info on feeding.  I too thought I saw a mouse being brought in yesterday.  I've never even heard we have cuckoos here, so I'll be looking that one up to see what it looks like!

[Pchemist]

Wow, that was an abrupt end to the feeding.  Princess wolfed down the last bit then shoved the kids underneath - probably because of the rain.  It was pretty amusing!

[eagle63_1999]

Oh wow got a chance to see Trey and Princess side by side, what a difference in size.  And a chance to see feeding, amaaaaazing!!