Manitoba Peregrines > Logan Peregrines
Logan - 2012 / Cowboy & Jolicoeur
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: birdnut on April 19, 2012, 08:37 ---The birds must be reading the forum...after complaining yesterday that they haven't been here for weeks...guess who's here this morning???
Two birds were canoodling on the smoke stack antenna of the HSC power house. The male took off when he was done, the female is still sitting there. :) :) :)
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Now this is interesting - it won't be the Radisson pair as canoodling time is over for them. Might, just might be the West Winnipeg pair because they were still canoodling the day before yesterday and they do like to hunt north of there OR it could be someone else entirely - either arriving late or have just found each other ...
Birdnut, please do let us know when and where you spot the birds - that antennae is too high for us to get band numbers so unless they help us out we may only be able to identify who they aren't by a process of eliminiation!
birdnut:
The birds must be reading the forum...after complaining yesterday that they haven't been here for weeks...guess who's here this morning???
Two birds were canoodling on the smoke stack antenna of the HSC power house. The male took off when he was done, the female is still sitting there. :) :) :)
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: birdnut on April 18, 2012, 12:12 ---No birdies seen at HSC/CSC for a couple of weeks now. :'(
Tracy, The 4 returnees seem not to like to hang out here this year, so would it be a good guess that the birds seen at HSC last year all season were probably Kate and Cowboy?
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Once Cowboy and Kate decided not to renest, they would have free to move more freely around town and we know they were around until later in the summer because of the date of Kate's death. As for it only being Cowboy or Kate at HSC, can't say that for sure, it could also have been Radisson birds though I suspect that it was mostly Cowboy and/or Kate simply because the Radisson birds are pretty consistently in the area around the nestbox when they have chicks.
After he was evicted from West Winnipeg we spotted Smiley but that was before incubation began at the Radisson. The lure of sitting in the sun on that sign (and the fly-by takeout) is undeniable for peregrines. Once there are nests however, it appears everyone keeps a polite distance from each other and each other's nests - probably why you haven't seen anyone hanging around Birdnut. Jules isn't incubating yet, but HSC is probably not a polite distance from the Radisson now that Princess is on eggs.
birdnut:
No birdies seen at HSC/CSC for a couple of weeks now. :'(
Tracy, The 4 returnees seem not to like to hang out here this year, so would it be a good guess that the birds seen at HSC last year all season were probably Kate and Cowboy?
bev.:
I thought someone had nested at one of the sites,. YOu must have mentioned that a ways back
thank-you
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