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U of Alberta - 2012 / Chase & Radisson

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MayShowers:
Thanks for the update bev.

bev.:
sorry , i have not been here. With the wedding on april28 and the drama here, I have been so busy. We are monitoring daily right now.

And i will post picutres by tomorrow.
What  I can tel you right now is we have a young unbanded male. He appears young as it looks like R is showing him the ropes. We were worried as it appeared on e day she  was feeding herself, with all the turmoil. He seems to be providing food right now. We have not seen bonding (copulation) but they have flown together. he does go to box and sniff eggs and sometimes will sit on perch while she is gone.

last night he called ad she went on top of Maz and she assumed position but when he came in he landed beside her. he either does not know what to do or is not ready hormonally yet. now  this could be happening when we are not there also.
so far R is incubating and only leaving for about 20 minutes at longest.

the fighting was not as brutal as I have seen so I do not believe anyone seriously hurt.

Sunday night at about 9pm a female came in . and R and the male wre on the chase. r gave her a few good hits and ushered far SW and then came back. Maybe a young female.

Gord is going to check around also. It has been a trying time but I think we are O.K. It appears to be same as San Jose and things have worked out there. I monitored San Josa during their drama.

More later  and a few picutres

Kinderchick:
Thanks for the update, Elaine. Sounds like lots of drama, right now. Hopefully, it won't last too long. ::)

RCF:
Hopefully things will get back to normal.  :)

Elaine L:
Bev and Peter and Becky and I all happened to arrive down here tonight to check out the situation, and the situation is this:  There are two males here, alright, but tonight, as the intruder male arrived at the nestbox, both Radisson and original male (we think) chased him off, with Radisson giving him a couple of hits, but he was o.k.  She and the original male then returned to their positions, Radisson in the nestbox and the male on a corner of College Plaza.  Shortly after, he and Radisson did a bit of bonding by flying around together and having a pleasant conversation.  It seemed obvious that he is the preferred male.  Then the male settled on the corner of the Clinical Sciences Building while Radisson returned to the nestbox.  Bev and Peter hoped to witness a food exchange, as this would reassure us all that Radisson and this male have a good bond, but they had to leave, they were so exhausted.  While I was there, no food exchange, but Becky hoped to see this before she departed later.

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