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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2008, 07:43 »
Thanks for posting that, Aline..

The Fab Four are growing by leaps and bounds everyday.  They are now spending the majority of their day outside the nest box, exploring the lower ledge.  I just saw Scout arrive with large prey a few minutes ago...I swear it looked like she was trying to entice the kids to jump up on the upper ledge with her. (its quite wide, from a falcon's perspective..but very windy there today)  But being a good mom she  hopped down onto the lower ledge and fed them their feast..Of course all of this was my interpretation... ;D  I love the way she continues to remain on the ledge...watching over her sleeping babies...

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #28 on: June 08, 2008, 03:42 »
I am not sure anyone posted the video of the banding event.  For the interested, here it is, it is about an hour long.

http://www.dgsweb.state.pa.us/CMSUploads/vod/cms_asx_generator.asp?videoname=052208_livearchive_dep_falconbanding.wmv
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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #27 on: June 05, 2008, 20:53 »
Thanks for the announcement yesterday just before the banding! I got it in my regular email and quickly got on the site and caught the whole thing - and with two windows open I was able to watch the parents on the ledge while also watching the banding. It was so neat.  I felt badly for the parents, but it was so interesting to watch them wait together.  I'm glad SGB reported when the feeding happened. I had to go before that, but I was wanting to see how long it would take for all to settle down and get back on track.

I don't envy TPC and anyone else out on the ledge for our banding. I imagine P & T will be rather upset!  Earplugs, helmet, and body armour anyone?!?

Thanks again!

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #26 on: June 05, 2008, 14:04 »
If you can't see the chicks in the box cam, check the ledge cam and keep your eye on the spot right under the camera - the chicks are sitting right there in the box cam's blind spot.  Today, its just heads you can see.  When they get a bit older they will be able to get up on the ledge, but not quite yet or at least not without some help from a sib!

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #25 on: June 05, 2008, 14:01 »
Can't see anything in the nestbox cam view, but the chicks are old enough to start wandering so its possible they are out and about, its a long ledge and I can see a couple of blind spots.  At the moment, one of the adults is standing right in front of the ledge camera - can almost read the band number tha's how close it was to the camera.

Will see what I can find out though ....

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #24 on: June 05, 2008, 12:42 »
Did I miss something big?  Can anyone tell me why the nest box and ledge in Ohio appear to be empty? ???

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2008, 09:35 »
She did indeed.  Her name was/is Madame and I used to be able to add her to the Christmas bird count when she held the Radisson territory.  I'd come down during the count period and usually spotted her on the Radisson sign or on the nestbox.  She used to have free range of the City during the off-season, so I'd get reports of her near Garden City, occasionally out in West Winnipeg and sometimes over the bridges near the U of M.  Her first year here she hung out downtown in the winter, was escorted out of the territory in the summer by Maud the original Delta (Radisson) Female and she hung out with T-Rex (Trey's Dad) at the U of M.  He fed her and four captive bred chicks that were being hacked out there that  year.  We were feeding them daily, but still, he'd hunt and shove food through the bars of the hack box.  He was a great Daddy and an even better Mommy, well, except for the egg-laying part of course  :D  Trey has inherited his size (Trey's a bit bigger) and most of his colouring (Trey's got more white on him).  His attitude is the best of both his parents (Madame's Trey's his mom) - aggressive when he needs to be (like when I'm banding) and tolerant when he needs to be (like when he incubated, I can get right up beside him to check the eggs and he'll let me get right beside him, then get off the eggs but won't leave the nestbox).  Madame's temperament was similar (fortunately).  However she never liked my trying to read her band numbers - I think she felt it was like I was trying to see up her skirt or something  :o   That's how she got her name, one day I was calling her all sorts of names as I was trying to read her band numbers and Madame was the only part that could be used in mixed company  ;D

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #22 on: June 04, 2008, 22:06 »
Madame, the previous Radisson female, had Scots/Spanish in her (she was from Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and she didn't migrate from the time she arrived in Dec 1990 until she disappeared in 2004.

Tracy, do you really mean she stayed here all year around, even thru our awful winters?!!!!

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #21 on: June 04, 2008, 21:57 »
No reason why she won't go in SGB, when we put captive-bred foster chicks in nestboxes, the parents don't have any problem, they just move back in and adopt them.

That's always good to remember...but since I overly worry... ;D  She finally made it back in the box about an hour and a half after the eyases were returned...she and Orville rarely left the ledge for a good while after the banding.  The kids finally had a bite to eat around 5...

They cleaned both of the cam lenses and it looks like they repositioned the ledge cam.  There's something different about it, but I just can't figure out what it is... :)

Brief slide show of some of the pics.  Nothing fancy...


http://s204.photobucket.com/albums/bb123/mannereid/may%2024%202008/columbus%20banding/?action=view&current=e83264c2.pbw
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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #20 on: June 04, 2008, 16:16 »
No reason why she won't go in SGB, when we put captive-bred foster chicks in nestboxes, the parents don't have any problem, they just move back in and adopt them.

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #19 on: June 04, 2008, 13:44 »
Well, I am glad some of you got to watch....I think I'm as pooped as the kids...I think that was Orville (Male) at the very end...the color was a tad distorted so I couldn't give the beak a good look over...(Scout's beak is very pale compared to Orville's)  Both parents are still on the ledge, the kids are zonked in the box...Scouts in front of the box...peering in...I wonder if she is tentative about going in...this is her first time going through something like this.  But she is usually the calmer of the two...she was probably the parent that stayed on the ledge while the "bad men" were out there...Orville was doing fly-bys.  I have tons of pics...maybe I'll get them organized and put them in a slide show.  I'm thinking they will probably post the banding on the Columbus blog once it is ready though...

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #18 on: June 04, 2008, 13:15 »
That was just way too cool to be able to watch that process from the moment they went to get the chicks to the moment they took them back. Yeah Tracy I wondered if it might have been the male sitting on the ledge when they went to put them back in the nestbook.  I can't imagine being inches away from the vocal youngins, I really would need to turn my hearing aids down in that situation.

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #17 on: June 04, 2008, 13:08 »
Ahh ok, thanks Tracy! You so smart haha  ;D 

Me do for long time  ;)

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2008, 13:08 »
1302 hrs (our time) - the Columbus project staff left the roof.  

1303 hrs (our time) one adult ont he ledge immediately in front of the nestbox, other adult still patrolling overhead.  Based on size (though I don't know how far away the camera is) it looked like the male in front of the box.  Calm male actually, he wouldn't move off the ledge when the project staff came out, then hopped back on the ledge almost before the last one left.

The birds should settle down in anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes.  

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Re: Rhodes Tower - 2008 / Orville & Scout
« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2008, 13:06 »
Ahh ok, thanks Tracy! You so smart haha  ;D