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Radisson - 2013 / Ivy & Princess
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on May 21, 2013, 10:01 ---I know this may sound unbelievable, but I still have some difficulty telling Princess & Ivy apart, even though I have studied the birds in Dennis's photo allbums. I do know that Princess is larger than Ivy but lately I have still managed to confuse the two birds. ::) Maybe it's all this rain that makes them look different to me? Well, that's the excuse I'm using for now. Is there any rhyme or reason to the schedule that the two parents take when incubating the eggs, TPC? ???
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If you can't tell the birds apart by size Kinderchick, look at their heads. Ivy's head is all black, Princess' has a crown and on this camera, it usually is easy to see. Not when they look like drowned rats however, that's when size is really the only way to tell.
As for the schedule ... well last week the schedule would have been easier to describe, but with the rain, Princess has been doing most of the incubating just because she is bigger. Must admit that Ivy is getting better at stuff 4 eggs under him but in times of poor weather Princess has usually take over most of the duties. As we get closer to hatching, Princess usually won't give up her spot on the eggs as often. These two tend to have longer shifts than the Brandon birds - Hurricane and Brooklyn seem to trade-off a lot but that's not a bad thing, just their routine. Once the chicks hatch, Princess will spend a lot of time with them over the first week, then she hands over the tweens and teenagers to her mate's care ... it used to be in the nestbox if the chicks were 10+ days old and it rained, Ivy was in there with them and you didn't see feather or talon of Princess. Ivy seems to be a bit more hands on with the chicks as they get older - more so than Princess or even St Trey :D More like his grandfather T-Rex who was always nearby the eggs/chicks when he wasn't chasing people off rooftops of course ...
Kinderchick:
I know this may sound unbelievable, but I still have some difficulty telling Princess & Ivy apart, even though I have studied the birds in Dennis's photo allbums. I do know that Princess is larger than Ivy but lately I have still managed to confuse the two birds. ::) Maybe it's all this rain that makes them look different to me? Well, that's the excuse I'm using for now. Is there any rhyme or reason to the schedule that the two parents take when incubating the eggs, TPC? ???
The Peregrine Chick:
Don't know when but it looks like sometime in the o-dark-thirties Ivy took over for Princess on egg duty. Princess took over again at 0518h and Ivy replaced her just over an hour ago at 0837h. Everyone and egg-rything looks fine on the nestledge.
Forecast for today in Winnipeg
Day - Overcast with a chance of rain. High of 19C. Windy. Winds from the NE at 20 to 30 km/h.
Night - Partly cloudy in the evening, then clear. Low of 7C. Winds from the NE at 10 to 15 km/h.
susha:
Thanks TPC. Fingers are crossed for a dryer, calmer day tomorrow :)
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: susha on May 20, 2013, 21:08 ---I'm trying not to be worried about our soggy princess...after all, the eggs are fine and moms sitting on eggs go through this all the time. Princess has certainly been through lots of stormy, cold, wet weather...but she seems to be breathing more heavily than usual... :-\ Or am I just imagining things, TPC ???
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She may be holding herself more above the eggs than on them, sometimes that can make a bird look like they are breathing heavier. Or it could be that you can see it more because her feathers are plastered to her body - dry feathers can hide alot. She's been through lots of wet weather before, both on eggs and not eggs. She's also been covered over in snow, caked in ice, pretty much everything possible she's been through in her 9/10 years here. I don't think the breathing is a cause for worry, we've seen other birds do it, some dry, some wet.
The sun has just set (2115h) but will rise in 8 hours at just after 0530h ... tomorrow is another day ....
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