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MN / Great Spirit Bluff - 2016-22
GCG:
There are now 3 eggs at this site. Nova is close by in view of both cams. Hopefully there will be another egg in the day(s) to come and incubation aka "watching paint dry" will commence. ::)
GCG:
It has been confirmed by RRP on March 28th at 3.30 P.M. there are now 2 eggs! ;D Nova is proving to be a diligent mother. There has been a GHO seen near the nest box. :o
GCG:
This site has declared that Michelle is unlikely to return. Newman is again/still the resident male who had been canoodling with an unnamed female they were calling New Lady. The RRP has named her Nova. This morning, Nova laid her 1st egg. ;D
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: GCG on March 11, 2020, 10:33 ---I, for one, have a question pertaining to the state of the nestbox. There are still remnants of the debris left behind after the chick or chicks died from invasion of blackflies. Would this be one reason why NewLady will not go into the box? TPC? RCF?
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Cleanliness isn't always a turn-off for these birds I'm afraid. And Newman does have a part to play in where they choose to nest. If he doesn't like making scrapes in messy nestboxes, he might be just as inclined/more inclined to make scrapes for her to choose from elsewhere. Or maybe he just makes better scrapes elsewhere because of the mess. Depending on how old NewLady is, it may just take awhile for her to figure out what is going on and what she should be looking for.
And just a note about "natural habitat", I'd like to say that given a choice peregrines would choose a cliff over a building, but they don't, not even ones who were hatched on cliffs. And to vice versa. It may be that birds that hatch in nestboxes recognize nestboxes faster than cliff hatched birds, but can't even say that for sure. Last year of our 6 nesting pairs, only 2 used nestboxes and all of the little terrors were hatched from nestboxes.
All I can say is ... peregrines be peregrines
::)
GCG:
--- Quote from: GCG on March 04, 2020, 09:22 ---Newman is again the resident male. Michelle has yet to return, but for her, it is soon to come.
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Newman continues to canoodle with an unbanded female the Forum has named NewLady. Unlike Michelle who nested in the box, "NewLady prefers the cliff ledge or her cubbyhole, not the box.
She spends her time cliffside, the natural habitat of falcons.
That cubbyhole would NOT be a good place to raise babies."
Those on the Forum are saying it is unlikely Michelle will return. She is 15.
I, for one, have a question pertaining to the state of the nestbox. There are still remnants of the debris left behind after the chick or chicks died from invasion of blackflies. Would this be one reason why NewLady will not go into the box? TPC? RCF?
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