Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2012 / Ivy & Princess
carly:
Welcome home Princess :-* :-* Thank you for the detailed report TPC. I hope that the 'possible' injured female is okay and if she needs help that some kind person helps her out if she's found.
I'm thinking Princess would likely inform us that any fears of her perhaps being 'too old' to come home or take her rightful place have been slightly exagerated :P
The Peregrine Chick:
And yes, there was a scrape in the nestbox when we went up to clean which is always a good sign. After cleaning, we made sure the scrape was still there.
Demolition on the exhibit space across from the MTS Centre has begun, so hopefully the birds will a) not be disturbed by the activity so close or b) already be on eggs when construction gets into full swing at which point they probably won't abandon the nest.
And yes, Dennis has photos and we'll be posting them once he's managed to go through them all.
The Peregrine Chick:
We have confirmed who's at the Radisson - thanks to Dennis and Wowzer's cousin. Our 2012 Radisson pair is (drum roll) Ivy and Princess. And to answer your next question, no we didn't misidentify Princess as Miss Hanky-Panky, the plumage patterns are just too different. Ivy has been here all the time though, so he was Mr Hanky-Panky. So now the question is who was Miss Hanky-Panky? I'm afraid I don't know - the bird's breast was much lighter in colour than other photos we have of Sandy so despite Sandy's track-record at this site (and that Ivy was so hot to trot right from the get-go). The band colour combination was right for Sandy but that bird just had too much white on its breast/belly though birds do lighten over the years. Without the band number I just don't know. And we may never know.
Something we do suspect however is that there may have been a bit of a knock-down drag-out fight in the nestbox. When we were clearing out the nestbox today, I noticed that on the front-of-box camera, there appears to be quite a bit of blood on/around the camera itself. This could be blood from prey, but we have never found blood in the nestboxes before or it could be blood from an injured rival. No sign of a bird near the nestbox or ledges and nothing at HSC or the crow's nest. We did have a report of a bird down at the Grace Hospital site on the 18th which could have been when Princess came home and the barney occurred. Jules was already back so a supplanted female would have needed to move out of occupied territory, and the Grace Hospital territory is definitely unoccupied territory at the moment.
Going to make sure that the rehab folks are aware of our suspicions in case a bird comes in with matching wounds. Or if a bird turns up dead in the next little while. Either way, if the band combination fits, we may yet find out who turned up first this spring.
Kinderchick:
Well, whoever it is in the nestbox, Mother Hen, at least they know well enough to "nest on the west"! ;)
Mother Hen:
Had me first hot dog today!!! MMMMM GOOD and I was watching the peregrines hop in and out of the nest on the west side.....SO TPC you had better get that camera rolling.....We need to know who is taking over the nest.
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