Manitoba Peregrines > West Winnipeg Peregrines
West Winnipeg - 2013 / Beau & Jules
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on October 09, 2013, 19:01 ---It sure would be interesting to know what she has been up to. Did she not have a transmitter, TPC? I thought she did...
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No she didn't have a transmitter, she fell into the old Eaton's smokestack and the vet/rehabbers cleared her for re-release but we didn't want to take the risk that she had a minor soft tissue injury that would have been exacerbated were we to have fitted her with a transmitter. Carson we knew took a bump from hitting the Hydro building because he did have some blood in his nares but he showed no problems while he was in care and when he was re-released with Beatrix he was raring to go, but again, not taking the chance. McDermot was the Radisson chick that got a transmitter the next year even though he too went down but he didn't hit anything, rather he just "dribbled" down a couple of storeys onto a flat surface when he didn't make a landing on the corner of a roof. No hit, no great height and a very soft landing. We scooped him up and he got a transmitter and off he went.
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on October 09, 2013, 19:01 ---Also, interesting to hear of her eating Great Water Bugs. Is that very unusual for a PF, TPC? :-\
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Eating insects, no, particularly if they are plentiful. Hack release in the early 1990s in West Winnipeg there was a huge influx of grasshoppers in Winnipeg, they were on buildings, sidewalks, lawns, heck downtown on Portage Avenue in front of stores. The chicks hacked release that year ate so many grasshoppers their pellets were green and filled with the grasshoppers carapaces - made them look almost sparkly in the sun. As for giant water bugs, that is a new one for me, but then, unless there are remains in pellets that you can find OR someone like Dennis can catch them on film, I don't know how easy it would be to document it, so maybe it's more common than one would think.
dupre501:
Thanks for the updates, great to hear news about our Manitoba birds!
Kinderchick:
How wonderful to hear that Beatrix has survived the first 2 years of her life! :D And so great to hear of her passing through Winnipeg! It sure would be interesting to know what she has been up to. Did she not have a transmitter, TPC? I thought she did...Also, interesting to hear of her eating Great Water Bugs. Is that very unusual for a PF, TPC? :-\
birdbrain:
Exciting times! Thanks for all the updates.
:)
The Peregrine Chick:
La Peregrina has landed safely in southern Mexico ... her sister Andamooka is still in the central USA ...
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