Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2015 / Smiley & Princess
The Peregrine Chick:
Okay, female was on the nestbox and the wind was blowing still just enough to make the camera shake so no luck reading her band. Then off she went. Shortly after, in popped Smiley with the gift of a meal and she didn't follow him back so off he went as well. Found her a few minutes later over on the east sign devouring her gift. She was facing the camera and her coloured band is on her left leg so all she had to do was move over about an inch and I would be able to read the band. But she was so enthusiastically eating I didn't get so much as a peek. Then she turned and walked away along the slash, cleaning her beak as she went. Fortunately, she turned and settled again and I could just make out one letter on her band so I zoomed in again and just waited ... for her to move or for the wind to blow her feathers out of the way, didn't matter which. And then it happened, up she stood and I got a good, long clear look at her band and I rejoiced! Then I realized why I was getting such a good look ... :o ... thank you Smiley for distracting her with another romantic encounter! Fortunately this time all I could see was her beautiful bloody yellow feet. Very familiar feet - all hail, the Princess has returned. ;D
irenekl:
Oh man TPC. I'm standing by wondering when in the heck this ID will finally happen. That gave me a good chuckle.
The Peregrine Chick:
1255h CDT
She's on the west side on the nestbox edge in the sun - he's on the slash under the R on the east side preening.
The Peregrine Chick:
1237h CDT
Okay, my retinas have been seared. I was zoomed into the female on the Radisson sign and suddenly there was canoodling up close and personal. Feathers filled the screen!!! Now she has turned around and I have likely lost my chance (this time) to get a look at her leg band - it is on her left leg and that is tucked in under the sign now. Probably a good thing, let's my eyes and mind recuperate from the close-encounter of the romantic sort.
The Peregrine Chick:
1215h CDT
Smiley is on the nest ledge and I'm trying to catch sight of the female's band number as she is sitting close to the spycam - Trey's favourite spot on the slash under the R. It is pretty sheltered there and she is in a patch of sunlight. Don't know if she has just had a meal but there is blood on her cere. She looks fine, can't see all of her but nothing looks amiss. Given that there was a bit of a set-to in the WW nestbox yesterday afternoon, might be there was one here as well. If there was a bit of a barney here, it didn't happen in/at the nestbox or at least not while there was enough light to see anything - I've checked all the recorders. I suspect this is Princess and if it is, then she looks much better than she did a couple of years ago when we know she had a knock-down-drag-out with Joli in the west side box. So with all of that, entirely possible just a the last remains of a messy meal and not something more sinister.
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