West Winnipeg - 2012 / Beau & Jules

[carly]

Wonderful to hear that Jules has made it home safe and sound 

[Saoirse]

Great news that SOMEONE is confirmed to be home! Fingers are crossed that Jules and Beau will cooperate when it comes time to choose a nest site. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

Jules is home. 

Looks like she is the third peregrine spotted in Winnipeg but she is our first confirmed resident bird - we haven't been able to identify the downtown male is Ivy yet. 

Dennis and Wowzer got some great photos of her mangling and defeathering prey at the "Crow's Nest" north of the nestsite.

So the countdown timer has finally stopped for 2012.

Now we will have to wait for Beau to return to see if they will use the darn nestbox this year!!

[susha]

    I think all of us Phanatics are on the same wave length!  Let the season begin!!

[The Peregrine Chick]

Since Jules is usually one of our first birds back, seems appropriate to start up this thread, especially since we are/have been experiencing unseasonably warm weather and we have almost no snow - who knows how fast the peregrines' prey may start working their way north again ... with the peregrines hot on their tailfeathers ...