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Offline The Peregrine Chick

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #397 on: June 22, 2013, 16:01 »
Chronology for today ...

0430h - looks like it is/has been raining quite a bit
0558h - meal
0715h - either rain pouring past the camera or water pouring off the roof between the camera and the nestbox
0833h - meal!
1009h - another meal then naptime
1158h - lunch
1247h - 2nd part of lunch then nap-squirm-sprawl-squirm-nap ...


Weather for today and tonight ...

Day - Overcast with thunderstorms. High of 25C. Breezy. Winds from the ENE at 10 to 20 km/h shifting to the SSE in the afternoon. Chance of rain 90% with rainfall amounts near 9.9 mm possible.
Night - Overcast with thunderstorms, then a chance of rain after midnight. Fog overnight. Low of 15C. Winds less than 5 km/h. Chance of rain 90% with rainfall amounts near 10.7 mm possible.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #396 on: June 22, 2013, 08:28 »
0815 hours: The storm has passed and the sun has peeked through, only 70mls of rain (2 3/4 inches) since 0330h. This was a normal Prairie Storm, lots of thunder, lightning and rain but no wind or hail. Chicks got fed and mom didn't feel it was necessary to stay with them all of the time. Now we wait for the official forum forecast but the weather eye says more of the same weather waiting in the wings. :)
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #395 on: June 22, 2013, 08:25 »
The sun is shining in the nest box now!   :)

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #394 on: June 22, 2013, 07:56 »
Quote from: Moonstar on June 22, 2013, 07:44
The rain is really coming down in Brandon right now.  So glad they have a bit of a roof.


Looks like it has past through, but may be another thunderstorm this afternoon.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #393 on: June 22, 2013, 07:44 »
The rain is really coming down in Brandon right now.  So glad they have a bit of a roof.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #392 on: June 21, 2013, 10:07 »
Chronology for this morning ....

pre-dawn - chicks were sleeping on their own
0524h - meal
0710h - meal
since then, napping and annoying their mother and father with their wandering  ;)


Weather forecasted for Brandon today ...

Day - Overcast with a chance of rain, then a chance of a thunderstorm and rain in the afternoon. High of 26C. Winds from the NE at 5 to 20 km/h. Chance of rain 50%.
Night - Overcast with a chance of rain, then a chance of a thunderstorm and rain after midnight. Low of 14C. Breezy. Winds from the NE at 10 to 20 km/h. Chance of rain 50%.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #391 on: June 21, 2013, 10:04 »
OK, so where's my remote!!  ;D

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #390 on: June 21, 2013, 09:09 »
Must be warm in the box this morning, all three chicks are sprawled out trying to stay cool.   :)

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #389 on: June 19, 2013, 22:23 »
Quote from: ballywing on June 19, 2013, 22:19
Did you see the tape TPC? Any idea what it is?  ???

I'm curious too!  :D
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #388 on: June 19, 2013, 22:19 »
Did you see the tape TPC? Any idea what it is?  ???
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #387 on: June 19, 2013, 22:02 »
Quote from: Kinderchick on June 19, 2013, 20:13
Yikes! :o Never heard of peregrine falcons eating rodents before. As Rose has said, TPC will be able to review the video footage and let us all know what it was, ballywing.

Holy cats, have they been eating everything else in town?!!   :o

Peregrines are bird specialists - they are aerial hunters and flying at high speeds is dangerous if you are hunting at ground level.  Some local populations will exploit other prey species if they are locally abundant, like bats if a pair was nesting right near a roost site or some northern peregrine populations will hunt small mammals at certain times of the year because locally they are as abundant or more so than bird prey species.  Urban peregrines eat pigeons because they are locally abundant - but not all, we had a pair that appeared not to eat pigeon often but seemed to dine daily on gulls - the gulls were more plentiful at the site than pigeons.  If I recall on an old prey survey at the Radisson, the remains of a bat was found once and the assumption was it was a peregrine kill, but of course, nothing like having it "on-camera"!!! The anatum peregrine subspecies is technically an avian predator - but as Hurricane just proved, sometimes there is an opportunity for something a little different - I'm just hoping it was running along a roof somewhere when it was caught as opposed to dead on a roof somewhere ... also that there are still a few pigeons or waterbirds around for this pair - much healthier and safer for all concerned.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #386 on: June 19, 2013, 20:13 »
Yikes! :o Never heard of peregrine falcons eating rodents before. As Rose has said, TPC will be able to review the video footage and let us all know what it was, ballywing.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #385 on: June 19, 2013, 19:41 »
Quote from: ballywing on June 19, 2013, 19:27
Ok so at approx 7:18 (or so) pm some sort of snack was brought into the nest - it was NOT a bird! Long skinny tail and 4 legs!  :o - a rat? - They don't eat rodents do they? Yikes it was strange!  ???


 I guess they'll eat anything if it was up high enough to catch. :o Maybe they found it hiding under the Poplar tree growing out of the southside blocked roof gutter, that's about 11 stories above street level, maybe it climbed up the drainpipe. Only TPC can tell you, she has the tape she can refer to. ;D
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #384 on: June 19, 2013, 19:27 »
Ok so at approx 7:18 (or so) pm some sort of snack was brought into the nest - it was NOT a bird! Long skinny tail and 4 legs!  :o - a rat? - They don't eat rodents do they? Yikes it was strange!  ???
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / June
« Reply #383 on: June 19, 2013, 16:22 »
11:30 am

Brooklyn on the mts tower while Hurricane shades the kids in the nest box.

 
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