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OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16
expeggerintexas:
Did I miss something big? Can anyone tell me why the nest box and ledge in Ohio appear to be empty? ???
The Peregrine Chick:
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
Liz:
--- Quote from: Liz on June 04, 2008, 22:03 ---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.
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Tracy, do you really mean she stayed here all year around, even thru our awful winters?!!!!
skygirlblue:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick 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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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¤t=e83264c2.pbw
The Peregrine Chick:
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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