Manitoba Peregrines > McKenzie Seeds Peregrines
McKenzie Seeds - 2009 / Zeus & Hurricane
photosbydennis:
And just what were my thoughts on the Brandon Banding...well !
The Bison Burgers & Fries at the Double Decker are great ! Ice water...cool and refreshing...after time on the roof . Endless cups of coffee (hate having to ask for a refill)
A private area for the Phanatics...keeping the rowdy bunch away from the regulars!
Almost forgot...The Birds Performed Great...should have a couple of decent photos ??
Was great to put a name to the face and a...you know the rest !
Cheers !
BirdLover:
Whichever ones they are they will be extraordinary! You have such a talent Dennis!
photosbydennis:
As TPC wonders what he will post !!! :P
The Peregrine Chick:
We have, as BL mentionned, three females and 1 male by measuring their feet. One of the females and the male were definites, but the other two females were a wee bit iffy - could have been large males, or small females but as we were banding at 21 days of age, we erred on the side of caution and banded them female so there was not problem with the bands on their legs. And the band size worked well, loose but not too loose to be a hazard so we are pretty sure they are females.
So why are we questionning this you ask? Because the female at this site was measured exactly the same way (we have a band size measuring tool) and it turns out that our male is actually a female. A very small female - hard to tell the male and female apart by size here as they were dive bombing us in fact! So just like Princess and Trey seem to have produced smaller females in 2007 (three of the four chicks were female, we originally thought two and two), it may be that Hurricane is doing the same thing, time will tell.
We also put coloured electrical tape on the aluminium (not coloured) band - yellow, red and green for the females, white for the male. We don't generally do this so we will have to see how long it takes our the little dears to figure out how to get it off. Hopefully it will stay for 6 weeks, another 3-4 weeks until they fledge and they a couple of weeks to more easily identify them post-fledging.
And Dennis does have some amazing :o photos! He's home now working his way through them ...
RCF:
The banding was awesome. It was wonderfull to meet TPC Bccs,kinderchick,birdlover,sami & Dennis. These falcons are such majestic birds and really protective of their chicks. I had a great time.
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