Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2008 / Trey & Princess
Enraptured:
Regarding the feeding, TPC, I saw three feedings with day old chicks in Minnesota yesterday and each time, it seemed the adult doing the feeding would position itself a little too far away from the chicks and then the stretching to reach other was painful and not ver successful! Especially for one chick, it never seemed to get anything as it was at the back and the adult didn't move around to get to it. Also it seemed as if the adult was expecting the chicks to grab the good versus drop it into their open mouths. I'm not sure how they're supposed to do it at this stage, but more often than not, it seemed the chicks weren't grabbing it and the adult would back away with the food still it it's mouth... It was hard to watch, and without knowing what's normal or needed....I just thought I'd ask so I could watch P and T feed with a little more knowledge and a lot more calmly! :)
The Peregrine Chick:
Pigeons are the peregrine equivalent of Kraft Dinner I think, they only seem to eat them with they have kids or pickins are slim. (And yes, I like KD from time to time) Speaking of feeding, what you see Princess and Trey bring in are not whole birds, they have had a nibble on them before they arrive. Usually head, wings, tail are gone. Sometimes leg. Just bringing the good stuff since they have to fly it in and they want to bring as much as possible for the chicks. At this stage they are ripping off tiny little pieces for the chicks, but that will change, almost day by day, as the chicks grow.
eagle63_1999:
Yeah she was having trouble gettin her balance but didn't look like she had the full weight of her body on the chick or the egg.
Earlybird:
I wish I could invite Princess and Trey to come and hunt at and around my building...lotsa pigeons that leave a mess on my window sills. It's pretty close. Is 1-1.5km too far to fly with a pigeon in the talons?
The Peregrine Chick:
The answers are yes, yes and yes.
The banding is a long way off and Princess and Trey will be making alot of noise and dive-bombing us. Usually they don't actually hit us because at the speeds they fly in "attack mode" we are too close to the building for them to fly safely. And while they are ready to throw themselves at us, they know that if they are injured their chicks are goners. So survival instinct meets parental instinct. Its why we will spend as little time as possible go up/down and on the ledge this year. We want to stress them all (adults and chicks) as little as possible.
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