Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2013 / Ivy & Princess
The Peregrine Chick:
1856h
Thunder rumbling to the west of the city along with a bit more wind and some rain ... is this a teaser or the start of the forecasted storm?
The Peregrine Chick:
Severe Weather Bulletin
issued by Environment Canada
at 5:20 PM CDT Thursday 20 June 2013.
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Watches/warnings in effect for southern Manitoba...
Severe Thunderstorm Watch for:
=new= Killarney - Pilot Mound - Manitou
=new= Virden - Souris
City of Winnipeg
Steinbach - St. Adolphe - Dominion City - Vita - Richer
Selkirk - Gimli - Stonewall - Woodlands - Eriksdale
Dugald - Beausejour - Grand Beach
Portage la Prairie - Headingley - Brunkild - Carman
Morden - Winkler - Altona - Emerson - Morris
Whiteshell - Lac Du Bonnet - Pinawa
Sprague - Northwest Angle Provincial Forest
Brandon - Carberry - Treherne
Melita - Boissevain - Turtle Mountain Provincial Park.
Severe thunderstorms possible tonight.
This is an alert to the potential development of severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds.
Monitor weather conditions..listen for updated statements. If threatening weather approaches take immediate safety precautions.
If you would like to report severe weather, you can call 1-800-239-0484. Please note, this phone number is only for reporting severe weather.
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==Discussion==
a trough of low pressure tracking across southern Manitoba is expected to trigger thunderstorms this evening. Some of these thunderstorms have the potential to become severe giving large hail, damaging winds, heavy downpours and a slight risk of tornadoes.
Please refer to the latest public forecasts for further details.
End
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Rose on June 19, 2013, 18:30 ---I guess from that post we can take it that the fledges from the west roof box were all successful with no problems of chicks coming to ground or anything untoward happening to the chicks.
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Oh lord, no, not all the fledges from the west side were successful, we just seem to have more problems on the east side. And we've had more years nesting on the west side so a list will take me a bit longer :)
--- Quote from: Rose on June 19, 2013, 18:30 ---Are you going to hack the West Winnipeg chicks again this Year because you said last year that they were hatched in an unsafe place (worse than the east nest Ledge), maybe you could Hack the Radisson chicks from the same place as the West Winnipeg chicks were hacked last year and the parents of course being wild birds would get on with their lives just like Jules and Beau did last year. You said it was out in the country with no buildings or traffic to run into and a very safe place. :)
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No we will not be hacking any chicks this year. Last year we had an opportunity that will likely not occur again and we were able to take advantage of it. Besides the point is to have a self-sustaining wild population of peregrines - that means that if we were to stop everything, they would still be able to live and reproduce without us. And hacking doesn't make them any more successful, just makes us feel that we have "helped" them. And we had the same loss rate with the "hacked" West Winnipeg chicks as we had for every other wild chick in the province - 2 out of 3 died before March. Probably the same rate as for last year's Radisson chicks, McKenzie Seeds chicks and Selkirk chicks. Probably the same rate as for this year's chicks too. In fact, we have had more Radisson chicks survive to return and nest than we did from 14 years of hacking. We had 8 hack birds in 14 years return to nest somewhere - we've had 6 from Princess and Trey alone, let alone the chicks from Pop & Maud, Pop & Madame, Mufasa & Phoebe, Madame & T-Rex, Trey & Princess, Holly & Zeus, Holly & Keener-Screech and now even Jules & Beau.
allikat:
Guess all that can be done is watch and hope! This is where fledge watchers are crucial in my opinion, if I was there, I would be doing it, especially on that East nestledge! From Regina, all I can write is, "good luck" little ones!
Rose:
Terrible record you posted for the east roof box and east ledge (post #300 I didn't want to quote the post because I didn't want to take up too much thread space!), I guess from that post we can take it that the fledges from the west roof box were all successful with no problems of chicks coming to ground or anything untoward happening to the chicks. Good plan to move them! Are you going to hack the West Winnipeg chicks again this Year because you said last year that they were hatched in an unsafe place (worse than the east nest Ledge), maybe you could Hack the Radisson chicks from the same place as the West Winnipeg chicks were hacked last year and the parents of course being wild birds would get on with their lives just like Jules and Beau did last year. You said it was out in the country with no buildings or traffic to run into and a very safe place. :)
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