West Winnipeg - 2013 / Beau & Jules

[The Peregrine Chick]

Holy cats these chicks have eaten well this morning!!

0157h - first meal of June 15th
0353h - second meal
0535h - third meal
0746h - fourth meal

Jules is mostly off the chicks during the day and night (one of our cams can see in low light) but she keeps them company.  Looking back at the recordings, looks like she is right on schedule, her youngest chick appears to have just turned 10 days old.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Jules is trying to get the kids under her at the moment but she or the chicks haven't quite got the "mum-brella" think worked out yet ... she's covering them but she's not actually shading them from the sun so it makes me think of hanging out on the beach on a warm (not hot) day with a blanket wrapped around you ... ahhhh, finally, now she has her back to the sun, wings extended and the squirmies all "shuggled" into a suitable formation under her ...

[bev.]

 
and all is well.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Will you be posting any screen captures of the West Winnipeg family? 

...we do hope to move the chicks at banding at...

Will you be moving them to the same location as you moved last years' West Winnipeg chicks, TPC?

Nothing is decided yet as to where or when KC but when we do know/have something I will post ...

[Kinderchick]

Will you be posting any screen captures of the West Winnipeg family? 

...we do hope to move the chicks at banding at...

Will you be moving them to the same location as you moved last years' West Winnipeg chicks, TPC?

[The Peregrine Chick]

Will you be posting any screen captures of the West Winnipeg family? 

Probably not yet because even though we can see them well enough for monitoring sake, the image isn't close/clear enough for viewing.  However, we do hope to move the chicks at banding at which point we shouldn't have any problems with captures.

[RCF]

Will you be posting any screen captures of the West Winnipeg family? 

[The Peregrine Chick]

I'm going to provide chronologies for full days here I think, I've been doing them like the Radisson and McKenzie Seeds sites but they have cams you all can see so a bit later today I'll post the full chronology for yesterday so you can follow along with this pair better.  If we have other nests in the province (Brandon Tower for example) and we manage to get a camera on them, I'll do the same thing there.

Just so you know the 3 chicks are fine, had their first meal at 0557h delivered by Beau and their second by Jules starting at 0904h.

[The Peregrine Chick]

these chicks are very active, or rather squirmy given their age ...

0544h - first meal
0707h - second meal
0957h - third meal

Looks like Beau is doing what Ivy usually does which is stuffing his kids ... this is good, food at this site has not always been so abundant but this isn't really so surprising, given the stress that this site puts the adults and young under.  One for instance is that the adult on duty with the chicks is almost always awake and alert which is not something we see at McKenzie Seeds or at the Radisson - there the incubating/brooding adult does nap/cat-nap while on the eggs/chicks.

Like the Radisson birds, Beau and Jules (mostly Jules since she is with them most) have been off the chicks a lot this morning.  And its not because they are defending the site, they are perched either just a few inches or a couple of feet away from the chicks, but the chicks are uncovered ...

[The Peregrine Chick]

So far today at WW ...

0341h - first meal
0821h - second meal

Jules is on the chicks most of the time ... this morning they have been very squirmy so they have been keeping her from resting while brooding them ...

[GCG]

With the tuppernest within camera range, was able to watch Jules feed the chicks four times this morning - 0611h, 0733h, 1103h and 1208h - she did a great job all the chicks got fed, including one that is obviously a day, maybe two behind the others.  Not a problem at this age, they grow so rapidly that in another few days they will all be the same size and at the same stage of development. 

Thank you for this update, TPC! Hope your tetanus shots are up to date. I appreciate what you do for the falcon phanatics. I look forward to photos of the WW falcons. <3

[The Peregrine Chick]

With the tuppernest within camera range, was able to watch Jules feed the chicks four times this morning - 0611h, 0733h, 1103h and 1208h - she did a great job all the chicks got fed, including one that is obviously a day, maybe two behind the others.  Not a problem at this age, they grow so rapidly that in another few days they will all be the same size and at the same stage of development. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

TPC , If only they knew that you are the "Other-Mother"  to all of them.

I'm very glad Jules doesn't see me as the "other woman", if that is what she does to defend her chicks, she'd massacre me for trying to take her Beau!! 

[noellat]

TPC , If only they knew that you are the "Other-Mother"  to all of them.

[The Peregrine Chick]

She's a great mom and doing all the things she's suppose to do.  We know she is a captive-bred bird which, if she is an escaped falconry bird might mean that she's more, let's say "comfortable" standing up to a human because she's had a lot of hands-on interaction with them.  If she was a captive-bred bird but purposely raised to be released to the wild, she would be like every other wild peregrine, she just grew up in a different environment from ours.  There are lots of other females that won't get out of their nestboxes when banders come to "borrow" their chicks for a wee while, its nice to have one here too!  And hopefully we will know her background someday.