Manitoba Peregrines > Logan Peregrines
Logan - 2014 / Hart & Jolicoeur
allikat:
Here's hoping!
The Peregrine Chick:
No chicks yet for Joli and Hart - maybe next week ...
They are currently on (as best we can estimate) Day 33 of incubation. Last year, chicks hatched out on Day 34.
Kinderchick:
Right... hadn't thought about the skill of defending the nest. Just assumed that skill was innate in all fairly mature PF's.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Kinderchick on May 25, 2014, 14:02 ---Do you mean that Hart is not very good at incubating or is he not good at "bringing in the bacon," TPC? ???
--- End quote ---
In this particular case, he sucks at paying attention to who is getting too close to his mate and his offspring. But it wasn't just that he wasn't paying attention, he almost missed our visit altogether. And I don't think this is a new thing, Joli was velcroed to her eggs and didn't get off until Hart finally remembered that he is suppose to fly at the featherless bipedal thingies while making some kind of noise (did I mention he sucks at vocalizing too?). When he finally remembered what his dad used to do, Joli finally made a noise and hopped off the nest. Fortunately Dennis had a decent telephoto lens on his camera because we weren't that close and he managed to get a couple of shots of her and of the eggs before we departed. If he hadn't turned up Joli wasn't in any kind of danger from us, but had it been something else, he was too inattentive to realize there was a threat. This I do believe he will learn, Ivy was a bit slow in the beginning relying on Princess to show him everything. But he made it up in stuffing his greedy little children until they were nigh to bursting - even the sainted Trey was not that overachieving a provider. With luck, Hart will figure out what he's suppose to do to defend his young and he'll have other stellar hidden talents. If one of those talents is that he learns from one year to the next, that will work as well.
Kinderchick:
Do you mean that Hart is not very good at incubating or is he not good at "bringing in the bacon," TPC? ???
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