Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2014 / Smiley & Princess
bccs:
Every day is a new adventure.
I have recently relocated and am no longer downtown.
The best news......... a peregrine just flew by my new home and she was yelling the whole time.
Yay, oh yay
I have no idea whether it was a Radisson kid or a West Winnipeg kid, but the vocals were music to my ears.
And given past experience, my money is on a girl.
The Peregrine Chick:
Lots of flybys the nestbox in the last couple of days - will see if I can download a few clips. Birds are of course moving too fast to identify, but nice to see anyway. Smiley's visits are less frequent - but spotted Princess over on the east side nestledge on the gravel (so away from the edge of the building) doing some preening in the light breeze. Nice to see her.
Usually in August/September the resident male will start making some new nestscrapes in the nestbox as part of his post-nesting season bonding activities, will be interesting to see what and where Smiley makes scrapes. Maybe he'll do some cleaning first or perhaps it will be the thing that convinces him on-going trash runs are best next year.
ballywing:
Was at MTS Centre around noon today......and saw..........absolutely Nobirdie. :( :(
Feather2Fin:
Maybe the chicks appreciate a clean, neat nest so they don't want to go back and sit amongst the carcasses. It was the messiest nest I've ever seen at the Radisson and they all seem to get pretty bad by the end of the nesting season. Smiley was a great provider but needs to hone his carving and serving skills to keep things a tad cleaner. ;)
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: ballywing on July 24, 2014, 10:10 --- :-\ :-\ :-\ Where the heck did those babies go???????? I don't remember this happening before - they fledge safely, then disappear for good, no sightings?? ??? :(
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It's not that unusual Bally, no worries. We usually have one we don't see or only see a couple of times after fledging. It is more unusual for the chicks to come back to the nestbox at the Radisson funnily enough, so we've been a bit spoiled over the last couple of years. Hurricane we never saw after she fledged, Radisson too. Don't recall seeing Ivy either come to think of it. Tenzing and Hillary vanished as well. Now that Linder has spotted the darlings down near the Convention Centre, we may well get some updates over the next few days.
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