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Radisson - 2013 / Ivy & Princess
The Peregrine Chick:
Oh, and the cams will go live on May 15th at the latest. Earlier if the birds get down to business earlier. As per usual, last week or 10 days of incubation of our first nest is when both cams will go live.
This is barring any unanticipated technical difficulties of course!
The Peregrine Chick:
As I've said in previous years, birds have individual personalities and pairs have personalities. Princess, Trey, Ivy and Joli are all very different birds. Princess and Trey were very different from their individual personalities and likewise different from Princess and Ivy and perhaps now Ivy and Joli. The female was definitely in evidence and defending when I was cleaning out the nestbox but she may not be a big box visitors until it is time to actually lay eggs. Or perhaps Joli has been supplanted and Princess is newly arrived home and not as hopped-up on happy hormones yet so not ready to even pretend to play "house" yet.
Unfortunately with the snow, I don't suspect that I will get much of a look at anyone today. Usually Ivy visits the nestbox early in the mornings, but nothing at so far today. But we will find out eventually ...
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: newchick on April 15, 2013, 07:59 ---Apparently it is some kind of kite to scare away Geese from nesting on top of the Hydro building. I am hopeful it will not scare away our Radisson residents though.
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It's not actually on the top-top, that roof is not vegetated. The rooftops they are talking about are only a few storeys off the ground and have seating areas and gardens. The kite itself is not visible with the skycam but might be from the nestbox as it is further north on the building. Being so low, it should be no more disturbing than firetrucks or people working on rooftops.
Of more interest will be the new apartment/hotel going in across the street from the MTS Centre and MEC. Princess and Trey did not like the work on the MTS Centre but the Hydro Building (one block further away but much higher) didn't seem to phase anyone at all.
newchick:
--- Quote from: Cooper on April 13, 2013, 14:20 ---Anybody know anything about the falcon-looking kite-like thing that has been "flying" at the Hydro building? I'm guessing it is something that Hydro is using to dissuade the geese from nesting on the lower roof area. I just about had a fit when I saw the what looked to be a giant falcon flying reflected in the windows. It looked like a monster falcon! When I got closer I saw it was tethered by a wire and so couldn't be a live bird. But for a minute there... ;D
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Apparently it is some kind of kite to scare away Geese from nesting on top of the Hydro building. I am hopeful it will not scare away our Radisson residents though.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: gemcitygemini on April 13, 2013, 16:07 --- :( :( So sad for this Coopers Hawk. I thought they nested in trees. Not where this happened. I wish windows could be covered in a coating that birds would stop thinking they could fly straight through. We have a large picture window and in our DR, another window. Many sparrows have tried to fly through and either died or have been stunned. This year, with vertical blinds, we hope to prevent this from happening. Still hoping that Princess will come home.
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Coopers do nest in trees and it is probable that this hawk was just flying through downtown. From the report from our two eye-witnesses, it sounds like the bird was being chased by another raptor and considering the Trizec Building is two blocks from the Radisson, it was likely one of the peregrines. And given it was likely trying to get away and that Portage & Main has whirlpool-like winds at time, it wouldn't have mattered what was on the window in this particular case. And the Trizec windows are not reflective, they are dark tinted, so no reflection of sky rather a big dark object.
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