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Offline Shocka88

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #302 on: May 06, 2012, 21:28 »
Wonderful news and thank you RCF for this video.   :-*

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #301 on: May 06, 2012, 21:12 »
Last egg can be up to 72 hours after the previous egg but that pertains more to the start of incubation rather than the actual laying of the egg since incubation usually starts with the penultimate egg.  What that means is that Hurricane and Brooklyn are probably just going to have three eggs this year as the 72 hour window is closing.  Now is this window hard and fast, no, stranger things have happened, but on average this is the pattern and our birds are 9 times out of 10, pretty average birds when it comes to laying and incubating eggs.  So bit longer and we'll know for sure.


Well, I guess Hurricane knew what the timeline was because she laid her fourth egg about 8:35 pm this evening.  ;D :-* :-* :-* :-*

Video of Hurricane laying her fourth egg. - http://youtu.be/ziug76tBw4I

You can see three eggs in front and one in behind her.

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #300 on: May 06, 2012, 14:59 »
really neat video, thanks rcf.

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #299 on: May 06, 2012, 13:35 »
From 7:30 am this morning, Hurricane doing some house cleaning.

http://youtu.be/mzwFzGjKaEk

I believe Trey used to do that as he sat on the eggs.

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #298 on: May 06, 2012, 12:10 »
From 7:30 am this morning, Hurricane doing some house cleaning.

http://youtu.be/mzwFzGjKaEk

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #297 on: May 06, 2012, 11:54 »
Something seems to have got Brooklyn's attention

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #296 on: May 06, 2012, 11:11 »
Last egg can be up to 72 hours after the previous egg but that pertains more to the start of incubation rather than the actual laying of the egg since incubation usually starts with the penultimate egg.  What that means is that Hurricane and Brooklyn are probably just going to have three eggs this year as the 72 hour window is closing.  Now is this window hard and fast, no, stranger things have happened, but on average this is the pattern and our birds are 9 times out of 10, pretty average birds when it comes to laying and incubating eggs.  So bit longer and we'll know for sure.

So far this morning, Hurricane was "on" overnight, Brooklyn was on for a couple of hours at first change, then they started spelling off after relatively short periods, then the morning sun really warmed up the nestbox and Brooklyn was able to take a bit of time on the box edge preening in the sun and the eggs got to watch the outside world for a bit.

I've changed the camera angle while the sun is out so folks can see the box from a different angle and get a sense of the amount of cover the new roof provides as the sun swings around.  There is a a fish-eye on this lens so there is a bit of distortion with size at distance but you can see that the birds have more room than is immediately apparent with the windowcam.

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #295 on: May 06, 2012, 10:42 »
Hurricane just got up from the eggs. I can see her tail feathers on the edge of the left side. Wonder if she's waiting for Brooklyn to come and relieve her ???

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #294 on: May 05, 2012, 22:29 »
From earlier this evening

Brooklyn eating



Returning to the south light

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #293 on: May 05, 2012, 20:18 »
2015h
She's traded off to Brooklyn ... both the adults look okay from the video I've buzzed through so far ...
Hurricane being unsettled is unusual for female peregrines I have watched ... but it might just be her and RCF may be right, this year may just be three in Brandon, but that's not a bad thing - Hurricane is a bit small for a female and three chicks is easier to keep wet/dry/cool than four if you are small ...

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #292 on: May 05, 2012, 18:09 »
Just talked to Rose and she said Hurricane is on the eggs now. ;D

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #291 on: May 05, 2012, 18:08 »
From my laptop downtown Brandon......They are fine, one is perched on the south light and I just saw one perched on the nest box ledge.  All is quite here at the McKenzie building. ;)
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #290 on: May 05, 2012, 18:07 »
I'm thinking that Hurricane isn't going to lay a fourth egg.  It's been four days since the third egg and three is a good number!!  ;D
You may be right about that, rcf. And as you say, 3 is great! :D

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #289 on: May 05, 2012, 17:13 »
Ok sounds good, I will stop all this fretting then!  ;D :P

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / May
« Reply #288 on: May 05, 2012, 17:07 »
No sun on them for the whole time and now 5 minutes later, they're alone again, I wonder if there's something going on around there that is making the parents leave the eggs so much..... :-\

This early in incubation and warm and they should be fine.  Hurricane isn't spending much time on the eggs yet, which for her is unusual.  I'm still thinking that there might be one more egg to come though it needs to come soon.  As for other things going on, there hasn't been any noises nearby and both birds appear uninjured and although not velcroed to the eggs, neither (when I've seen them) seems wildly disturbed.  Last year was very wet and cold and the cam came on past the start of incubation in Brandon, so we don't really know what this pair's style is like in a normal year.  They have been on the eggs when its been wet/foggy/damp and off the eggs when its warm and dry - that's normal behaviour generally speaking.  If there were disturbances, they would both be off the eggs more ...

Its just a wait and watch here folks ...