Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16
jadoo:
...looks to me like there is a pip in one of the eggs, front and centre, right now! :o
Elaine L:
The biologist, Donna, has a report on the website this morning; she says that expected hatch date is about May 6 (http://ohioperegrinefalcons.blogspot.ca/). She does not say anything about Chance or his absence from the nestbox, so I will presume that perhaps, as Tracy says below, there is not necessarily a problem.
jadoo:
...thanks for the insight, tracy - also, these are both relatively young birds as well, and they didn't have a successful nest last year. With two such inexperienced birds, it may take a while to get things right...
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: jadoo on May 02, 2012, 08:40 ---...it may be my imagination, but durand looks much less agitated this morning; she was gone for about 15 min's earlier, then back and right back on the eggs; if she went for a meal, I can't see her spotting, hunting down, catching, killing and eating her prey in that short a time, and then come back relatively calmly. So, either a) she didn't eat...or...b) she had food stashed somewhere...or...c) chance (or some other male?) brought food for her, but didn't take over in the nestbox.
Any other options I might be missing?
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Chances are (no pun intended) she was retrieving food from Chance or from Chance's cache of food. We have had males that don't participate in incubation as much as others (or the females won't let them). Last year the only time Beau could incubate was in the middle of the night so unless we check the cameras between midnight and 2am we rarely saw him. He never brought food to the nestsite and he never hung out there. When we moved Polo after banding, he was around 50 to 75 percent of the time, they both were. Beau couldn't participate last year like he did in 2010 because Jules wouldn't let him. Now that was at a non-optimal nestsite. We have had males at the Radisson that I almost never saw either - Simba was Madame's mate for two years and I almost never saw him in the nestbox and rarely on the building. Didn't seem to bother Madame any and she was happy to share incubation duties with Pop, T-Rex and Trey. Every pair operates differently - it could be that she feels he's too "new" at this and is not letting him participate - or he may not want to participate like Simba - or he participates at night like Beau - or he's off defending the site - or something else entirely. So long as she keeps incubating, she is getting food from somewhere and that would mean he's still around.
jadoo:
...it may be my imagination, but durand looks much less agitated this morning; she was gone for about 15 min's earlier, then back and right back on the eggs; if she went for a meal, I can't see her spotting, hunting down, catching, killing and eating her prey in that short a time, and then come back relatively calmly. So, either a) she didn't eat...or...b) she had food stashed somewhere...or...c) chance (or some other male?) brought food for her, but didn't take over in the nestbox.
Any other options I might be missing?
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