Manitoba Peregrines > McKenzie Seeds Peregrines
McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / Brooklyn & Hurricane
Rose:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on May 03, 2012, 16:20 ---1617h
Could hear someone talking but it wasn't Hurricane. I think perhaps Brooklyn was up on the roof (not the nestbox roof, I zoomed out and he wasn't/isn't there) or light talking to herself in the box. She didn't respond and "he" stopped. No birds flying by or on the perch pole either. Given how clearly we can hear the trains go by, it wouldn't surprise me that we can hear himself 30 feet (approx) above the nestbox on the lights.
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Brooklyn just brought a snack that's when someone talked loudly she grabbed the snack and took off. Now he is on the eggs.
The Peregrine Chick:
1617h
Could hear someone talking but it wasn't Hurricane. I think perhaps Brooklyn was up on the roof (not the nestbox roof, I zoomed out and he wasn't/isn't there) or light talking to herself in the box. She didn't respond and "he" stopped. No birds flying by or on the perch pole either. Given how clearly we can hear the trains go by, it wouldn't surprise me that we can hear himself 30 feet (approx) above the nestbox on the lights.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on May 03, 2012, 14:34 ---So would these 2 be into what's referred to as "hard incubation" now, TPC, with perhaps 1 more egg to come?
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Generally penultimate (2nd last) egg is when incubation begins and when they are velcroed to the eggs, say by the weekend, that is hard incubation. Princess & Ivy get down to hard incubation right at egg 3, no messing about. Brooklyn and Hurricane have been a little less quick to start, but hard to know if that is their style or just this year.
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on May 03, 2012, 14:34 ---And if so, I have been meaning to ask, why does "hard incubation" only begin after the 2nd last egg is laid? Why don't the eggs need to be incubated as they are laid? ???
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If you start incubating with the first egg, then the first egg will be that many more days developed than the other eggs. The goal is to have all the chicks hatch close together so they are all developing at the same time/rate. At the Radisson, the age difference between chick 1 and chick 4 would be a week, that's a huge amount of time in a chick's life and development. At the moment we are at 4 days between egg 1 and egg 2 at McKenzie Seeds, egg 4 if it appears will be 6+ days younger than egg 1.
Kinderchick:
So would these 2 be into what's referred to as "hard incubation" now, TPC, with perhaps 1 more egg to come? And if so, I have been meaning to ask, why does "hard incubation" only begin after the 2nd last egg is laid? Why don't the eggs need to be incubated as they are laid? ???
The Peregrine Chick:
1414h
Hurricane is back on her eggs. No yelling or screaming or fuss, she just came back, sat on the box edge for a minute, maybe a minute and a half and then came over and settled herself on the eggs. She's looking around a bit but can't hear any disturbance outside the box and haven't see anyone flying about outside the nest box, but granted, our view is limited ...
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