Manitoba Peregrines > McKenzie Seeds Peregrines
McKenzie Seeds - 2011 / Brooklyn & Hurricane
bcbird:
TPC, this is wonderfully helpful detailed information on how to recognize these two.
It is very interesting to have you point out the reminders of their Radisson (Trey) heritage.
des:
Wow! thanks - great to have those clear ways to tell them apart.
The Peregrine Chick:
Notes on identification ...
Hurricane and Brooklyn have some distinctive plumage differences as well as a size difference. Note, they both have black bands on their left legs and silver bands on their right legs.
First the size, Hurricane is bigger than Brooklyn but not by too much though you will be able to tell one from the other after a couple of days of watching on the cam.
Plumage differences - most notable is that Brooklyn has a neon white breast. That sounds wierd but check out the May 7 colour (window cam) video and you will see what I'm talking about. He literally glows even in the shade. He also has fewer/lighter speckles on his lower breast and belly. He also a and extra line of black midway on his left cheek - Hurricane doesn't have so clear a white cheek patch on that side. She has a whiter breast than her mother (Princess) but she is Trey's kid and has more white than some of her siblings but nothing near as white-white in colour as Brooklyn.
Brooklyn's lineage does lead back to the Radisson but it bypassed Princess' influence so he looks more like Trey than his Radisson cousins of a similar age.
I will see about snagging some still images of both birds from the window cam to help with the identification.
The Peregrine Chick:
I have posted videos from both the box cam and the Eye-Spy's window cam in the Project's YouTube Gallery
The box cam is black and white because we believe water got inside the "waterproof" housing during the May Day Blizzard and its twizzled the colour control some. No way to replace the cam without excessively disturbing the birds, so we switched it to black-and-white.
The window cam is super-de-dooper as Eye-Spy said and it is in colour. It also has a remote pan/tilt/zoom function so as the chicks grow we will be able to modify the image some. I should say that Eye-Spy tried a couple of different cameras but because of the light/dark contrast "behind" the box in the latter part of the day, he decided to go very high-end to give us all a great image.
RCF:
--- Quote from: Eye-spy on May 07, 2011, 20:53 ---Good Lord woman ! You could have brought me a coffee !
I'm guessing that NOTHING I do will go un-noticed in Brandon :-\
p.s. The "White ball" is a 25x optical, 320x digital zoom, day/night, high res. spped dome camera, same as but gooder than the "sky-dome", back here in da Peg.
--- End quote ---
Sorry Eye-spy, no coffee but they probably wouldn't let some crazy lady with binos and a camera who hangs around a lot, into their building. ;D ;D
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