Manitoba Peregrines > Brandon Tower Peregrines
Tower Nest - 2013 / ? & ?
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: RCF on May 22, 2013, 16:33 ---I'm thinking they are going to or already have laid eggs in this opening in the wall on the north side. I managed to get a photo of them bowing to each other. I read they usually do this over the scrape where they are going to lay eggs.
Courtship:
The birds “bow” to each other by leaning forward with their heads low and their tails held high. They make an “ee-chupping” sound. Both the male and female bow and vocalize over the scrape and may touch bills. The male offers food to the female, which takes it from his talons or beak, often accompanied by ee-chups or loud vocalizations.
http://falconcam.travelers.com/falcon-behaviors.html
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Great photos RCF! :D
Usually the adults are past the bowing in the scrape stage before they start laying is our experience but that may just be because our birds are all experienced and returning pairs. Remembering the copulation we were watching back when we installed the cams at McKenzie Seeds, I would say they were just getting started at that time. Add three weeks minimum to get the "buns in the oven" and yup, they could be starting to lay or they may be starting in the next week and this bowing is the end of the pre-lay stage since this is a new pair at this location.
Next task will be to watch for when they start incubating .... ;D
RCF:
I'm thinking they are going to or already have laid eggs in this opening in the wall on the north side. I managed to get a photo of them bowing to each other. I read they usually do this over the scrape where they are going to lay eggs.
Courtship:
The birds “bow” to each other by leaning forward with their heads low and their tails held high. They make an “ee-chupping” sound. Both the male and female bow and vocalize over the scrape and may touch bills. The male offers food to the female, which takes it from his talons or beak, often accompanied by ee-chups or loud vocalizations.
http://falconcam.travelers.com/falcon-behaviors.html
Rose:
Spent an hour or so out at Victoria avenue east around noon. Lots of action on the north side of the building (river side), lots of aerial displays, soaring, hovering in mid air, harassing the Raven chicks or maybe the workmen?? . All the time we were there, one or both of the Falcons were in the framed hole on the north side. They didn't seem to go near the area where the nest box has been placed (south building roof) :)
RCF:
This morning we saw one of the falcons in the cubby hole on the north side of the building, it then flew out and around to the north tower on the top catwalk. Then a few minutes later another showed up with a food gift for the bird on the north tower then went and perched on the railing of the south tower to preen. So I am assuming the bird on the north catwalk was female from their behavior.
Male
Female
The Peregrine Chick:
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--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on May 04, 2013, 16:48 ---
Here we think the male is banded and the female is not but we aren't sure as the birds were flying and perching and flying and copulating in and around the towers so we aren't sure who was flying based on what we saw copulating. What we are pretty sure of is that the banded bird had a black band on its right leg and a silver band on its left.
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Well, I was a little confused about the banded bird.....if it was male or female ?
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We were confused too and perhaps still are. :D Dennis and I were looking at the photos at the Tower and we think the male is banded not the female, not the other way around. But we don't have size as a consistent marker because of the shell game the birds were playing when we were there. So looking at the feet/wrists, how the band looks, the kind of plumage on the bird, trying to assess relative size on/from a photo, we think that the female is unbanded and the male is banded. Or we might still be confused ;D
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