Manitoba Peregrines > McKenzie Seeds Peregrines
McKenzie Seeds - 2013 / Brooklyn & Hurricane
The Peregrine Chick:
--- 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.
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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.
Kinderchick:
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.
Rose:
--- 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! ???
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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
ballywing:
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! ???
RCF:
11:30 am
Brooklyn on the mts tower while Hurricane shades the kids in the nest box.
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