Manitoba Peregrines > Brandon Tower Peregrines
Tower Nest - 2012 / ? & ?
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Rapidcitymbfan on April 10, 2012, 16:03 ---I have been checking the towers a couple of times a week and I haven't seen another falcon since March 30th. :(
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Its still early-ish days, so we can wait. And even if Alice returns alone and hangs out there alone this summer, it will still be hopeful news for next year as she would likely return and get another chance at attracting a mate. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for this year though - Zeus didn't turn up in Winnipeg right away - at 17 years of age, he might just be a wee bit more leisurely in his progress home ...
RCF:
I have been checking the towers a couple of times a week and I haven't seen another falcon since March 30th. :(
bccs:
Thanks for the pictures RCF. And glad to see that at least one falcon is back.
RCF:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on March 30, 2012, 22:36 ---
Might have been a red-tailed hawk, apparently they did used to have a nest in the woodlands nearby for a few years. Or it could have been one of a number of other hawks, the area is prime for hunting easy prey (gulls) and the raptors are starting to come home. Since she's back fast (and end of March is fast enough), chances are other raptors won't get a chance to nest in the area if she sticks to her "guns" and her nestbox. But we will just have to see - if it is Alice, she lost chicks here most likely to predation so she may have very little tolerance for invaders and maybe it will mean she will choose a more defendable (ie nestbox) location.
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The nest box is definitely the best location, now we just have to wait for a suitor to show up for her. :)
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Rapidcitymbfan on March 30, 2012, 19:17 ---Before I saw her perched on the corner of the building, I saw a raptor of some sort flying around the towers with some thing in its beak, which it dropped and tried to retrieve. Looking through the binos it didn't look like a falcon to me. There were lots of gulls around too, but it wasn't a gull. :-\
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Might have been a red-tailed hawk, apparently they did used to have a nest in the woodlands nearby for a few years. Or it could have been one of a number of other hawks, the area is prime for hunting easy prey (gulls) and the raptors are starting to come home. Since she's back fast (and end of March is fast enough), chances are other raptors won't get a chance to nest in the area if she sticks to her "guns" and her nestbox. But we will just have to see - if it is Alice, she lost chicks here most likely to predation so she may have very little tolerance for invaders and maybe it will mean she will choose a more defendable (ie nestbox) location.
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