Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2016 / Smiley & Princess
Liz:
Thanks for the play-by-play, TPC.
Kinderchick:
Wow! Thanks for all the details of the Radisson banding today, TPC. Certainly made for interesting reading. 8)
The Peregrine Chick:
And before I head off - yes we will have a name the chicks contest - and yes it will be up and running in the next couple of days.
The Peregrine Chick:
I should mention that the Radisson chicks are behemoth's this year - much larger than chicks under Ivy or Trey!! I think that Smiley may have given this batch no babies a super-sizer gene and I think a gene with Terminator's attitude which when combined with Princess' somewhat dominant genes may have produced chicks who if they survive the next 12-18 months will be let's say, challenging, for whomever needs to work with them or band their chicks. Nice to have peregrines that stand their ground in the face of all comers, but they can make your life difficult in the process and even as they are creating dynasty in the peregrine world.
So banding all done, we did a quick clean of the nestbox - we got a couple of bugs on us during the banding - the chicks weren't infested just living in a very messy nest-box. We'll be changing out the gravel at the end of this year! So we chatted with whomever was viewing the nestbox while we worked. And then we popped the chicks (blood on heir toes and all) back into the nestbox and back into the care of their parents.
A bit of packing up and we were out of there and off to band the Logan chicks - and I'll continue that story over on the Logan thread in a little while - must make dinner.
The Peregrine Chick:
Bandage in place, bit of blood (and sweat by this point) wiped up and we started over. Camera up and on, chick out of the bucket and more firmly in hand, and off we went yet again. We had the usual problems with the thick metal on the new batch of male bands but the rest went fine and no more wounds. Next up was what I thought was the noisier of the two females (it wasn't) and the bands went on with no more than the usual fiddling and she never shut up which even though it is a small room echoes! I hoping that won't be a problem on the recording. We also had to do the recording in segments because the video camera won't record more than 9 minutes because of the file size produced - so we recorded each chick individually and I'll edit hem back into a single recording if I can before uploading it to the web. Third chick was also a female and yes, loser and noisier than her siblings. I hunk my ears were hurting as much as my scratches by the end!! ...
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