Manitoba Peregrines > Brandon Tower Peregrines
Tower Nest - 2013 / ? & ?
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: RCF on April 24, 2013, 20:28 ---I wonder if the McKenzie peregrines have been coming out here for gulls, something other than the pigeons which are plentiful downtown.
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It's entirely possible RCF, there aren't alot of ducks home yet and no shorebirds so pigeons, gulls and any other appropriately sized passerines are on the menu I daresay! The McKenzies birds have an affinity for grebes and sora rails as I recall ... neither of those species are back yet ... maybe we'll see some if we actually do get to 17C and 18C this weekend!
Haven't had any reports from our other spotters at this site ... if I hear anything y'all will be the first to know!
RCF:
My co-worker's husband works at Brandon's landfill which is in close proximity to the Tower nest. My co-worker said her husband saw a peregrine eating a gull or pigeon there yesterday. He said since late last week he has been seeing the heads of gulls. I have been checking out here since the end of March and have not seen a peregrine. :-\ I checked again today and only saw the nesting Ravens and of course lots of gulls. Of course when she told me that today I got a bit excited. ;D I wonder if the McKenzie peregrines have been coming out here for gulls, something other than the pigeons which are plentiful downtown.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: RCF on April 16, 2013, 21:19 ---Of all the times I was out there I never saw anyone else looking and I was there almost everyday. If I had a scope like they had, I would have most likely got a band number. You kind of need to stay a while and watch, maybe they didn't know where to look. :-\
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He has a day job so tends to go out very early in the day. And no, he hasn't been looking for numbers, just remarked on the leg band colours because they were noteworthy - pink on one leg, red and black on the other. Not Canadian band colours as he knows them. I keep asking him to look for band numbers but he just has a look at the peregrines on his way to look for other birds in other locations. He's interested in the peregrines because they are birds, not because they are our peregrines. ;D Keep telling him that peregrines rule but he's unconvinced and having been birding with him, I understand why he keeps moving, I never see the variety or number of bird species with anyone else but him! Unfortunately, don't get to go a-birding with him often :'(
RCF:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on April 16, 2013, 20:29 ---
--- Quote from: RCF on April 16, 2013, 17:43 ---You must mean this photo I took and posted on the forum of the bird in the cubby hole with the black over red band. ;)
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Yup :), as well as one of the site employees and a local birder who has a spotting scope to die for (a wowzer of a spotting scope!).
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Of all the times I was out there I never saw anyone else looking and I was there almost everyday. If I had a scope like they had, I would have most likely got a band number. You kind of need to stay a while and watch, maybe they didn't know where to look. :-\ You can almost make out the number in the photo I took. On second thought, I did see conservation out there once and the scope was not to die for (wowser of a spotting scope). ;)
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: RCF on April 16, 2013, 17:43 ---You must mean this photo I took and posted on the forum of the bird in the cubby hole with the black over red band. ;)
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Yup :), as well as one of the site employees and a local birder who has a spotting scope to die for (a wowzer of a spotting scope!).
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