Radisson - 2016 / Smiley & Princess

[The Peregrine Chick]

Video from today - nice (small) meal video with some chick time at the end.

YouTube video = Teenagers

[moka]

Finally managed to get the cam. Our babies are hugging together, long wings drooping off their shoulders like a shawl. They are still so spotlessly white. Adorable.

[GCG]

I have seen the "caterer" drop off several appe"teasers" today.

[burdi]

"Hi, I'm in the penthouse suite. Please send up housekeeping!" (Another summer of mess? My previous husband was so neat and tidy.)

Driving me crazy to watch ... especially looking at Ty's and Faith's nice clean nest.  As I recall, Beatrix and Ty kept a pretty clean box as well, but the wind helped with that - their box is much more exposed than the Radisson.

We'll give it a bit of a tidy when we retrieve the chicks for banding ...

Poor Smiley ... well I'm sure you and Princess enjoy the all-inclusive perks in your penthouse - including housekeeping - but someone must remember to remove the "do not disturb" sign a little more often. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

"Hi, I'm in the penthouse suite. Please send up housekeeping!" (Another summer of mess? My previous husband was so neat and tidy.)

Driving me crazy to watch ... especially looking at Ty's and Faith's nice clean nest.  As I recall, Beatrix and Ty kept a pretty clean box as well, but the wind helped with that - their box is much more exposed than the Radisson.

We'll give it a bit of a tidy when we retrieve the chicks for banding ...

[newchick]

   The chicks are growing leaps and bounds! They seemed to have doubled in size overnight.

[bev.]

I am so glad things are going well here

have nto had a chance to watch cam too much as I am hopping but I am so happy princess is here again.

[Liz]

"Hi, I'm in the penthouse suite. Please send up housekeeping!" (Another summer of mess? My previous husband was so neat and tidy.)

[The Peregrine Chick]

Hi,
i noticed that one of the babies has a dark mark on his/her little head, and I was wondering if it is an injury or is that his feathers starting to change color?

Too early for flight feathers to be showing through, that will take a couple more weeks.  Likely just a bit of dinner, or a pellet or some other piece of debris stuck on him/her.  I'm afraid it is not an unusual occurrence, especially after mealtimes.  One of the most beautiful photos of a sleeping chick pile almost wasn't because of a pellet stuck on the top of one of the 2-3 day old chicks' head.  We were there to check for a leak in the box roof (there wasn't one, just looked like it) so Dennis was able to get photos before and after I carefully removed the pellet. 

And yes, Maltese, I will take a second look through the recordings to see what I can see - but what I saw this morning, nothing leapt out at me as being a problem.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Different view of the box ...



Chicks are 10 days old, able to thermoregulate except in extremes (sunshade or umbrella) and Princess is able to kick back and relax a bit ... Princess is on the box edge, chick in a pile right at the boundary between inside and outside.  Princess had been standing earlier with just her head sticking out, something we've seen for years, given half a chance, she prefers outside to in.  She's been getting better about the "in" over the last few years though which is nice to see - easier on her and on whatever she's incubating/brooding.  The boys never seem to have a problem, they just tuck down and get going.

[The Peregrine Chick]

In my previous post I mentioned that one chick tried to self-feed (thought it was cute!) and in case you check recording TPC, 1657h could be wrong - didn't save screenshot in time, so maybe 1647h or earlier. I haven't been watching feedings lately so was a bit surprised, but don't know if this is early or the norm.

I'll go back and see if I can find it ...

[moka]

I managed to get a frozen picture on the cam, this morning. I saw a partial bird carcass and the kids seem to be out and about.

[burdi]

In my previous post I mentioned that one chick tried to self-feed (thought it was cute!) and in case you check recording TPC, 1657h could be wrong - didn't save screenshot in time, so maybe 1647h or earlier. I haven't been watching feedings lately so was a bit surprised, but don't know if this is early or the norm.

[Liz]

You know they're getting strong when they go on a trip - out from under the roof!  

[maltese]

Hi,
i noticed that one of the babies has a dark mark on his/her little head, and I was wondering if it is an injury or is that his feathers starting to change color?