Manitoba Peregrines > Brandon Tower Peregrines
Tower Nest - 2012 / ? & ?
Cooper:
Well, a little update:
Large peregrine (wouldn't swear it was the same one) was back at the west west haunt last night (May 31). I watched her/him for about 10 minutes at around 8:00 p.m.
He/she was behaving rather curiously in my opinion. She kept circling low over the building, kept landing (or trying to) on an odd part of the building only to immediately take off. He/She would fly almost up to her usually perch, yet not land there (almost as if she couldn't quite make it) and let herself fall away, only to do the same thing again. Maybe it was someone new looking Alice?
Cooper:
I should correct myself, it was actually Saturday the 19th the last time I saw her. Definitely her in her hugeness - looked like a sphinx guarding her building! The day before I saw her on the same building with ANOTHER bird! I was so excited (although I could not say for certain that it was a peregrine due to the angle of my view, but I figured there'd be no way she let another bird sit on the same building). Then as I say I saw her on Saturday and haven't seen her since. I was rather hoping that it was because she and the other fellow had gone off to nest/incubate at some place hidden from my view. I guess not now, but maybe that other fellow is in Brandon with her...hope, hope.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Cooper on May 29, 2012, 08:42 ---Hmmmm, very interesting. Is it Alice, do you think? Coincidentally, I have not seen the bird (who may or may not have been Alice) at her west west Winnipeg haunts since May 20. Prior to that I'd seen her everyday, sometimes several times a day.
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That's I believe anyone's last sighting of her Cooper. Dan in Brandon spotted a bird a couple of days later hunting along the river but no way to be able to tell if it was her or one of a number of other birds (tundra and anatum) going through the area at the time (there was a bit of a wave). The question was, will a bird come back to the site, or rather will a bird or birds come back to the site and stay at the site. First pair didn't, now we have a bird who needs a "main squeeze" and then hopefully nature will take its course with more success than last year.
Cooper:
Hmmmm, very interesting. Is it Alice, do you think? Coincidentally, I have not seen the bird (who may or may not have been Alice) at her west west Winnipeg haunts since May 20. Prior to that I'd seen her everyday, sometimes several times a day.
RCF:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on May 28, 2012, 20:16 ---A falcon in the Tower Nest vicinity! :o That's great news, RCF! Must mean there is another one around - right? :-\
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I don't know if there is another falcon in the vicinity, we only saw the one at the Tower. She, because it was a bigger bird, sat and preened on the railing the whole time we were there. ;D
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