McKenzie Seeds - 2016 / Sol & Hurricane

[burdi]

Wouldn't it be a nice surprise to hear we're getting a cam in Brandon this year!?

[Pam]

Thanks for the updates, RCF!

[bev.]

glad you have eggs  and  therefore young ones to watch

[RCF]

Are there any updates? So look forward to following this nest and miss the cam.

Nothings changed since my last post a few a days ago. 

[GCG]

Are there any updates? So look forward to following this nest and miss the cam.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Hurricane landed above him on the tower. She looks to have an egg butt.   

I don't know about egg butt  but I was estimating about May 6 for their first egg but she was often early with Brooklyn, have to see if it is the same way with Sol.  I padded her usual lay start time by a few days just in case she needed a bit of extra convincing to accept Sol.  Will be interesting to see how these two do this year ...

[birdbrain]

Thank you for the great pictures!  That egg butt looks very uncomfortable!  Exciting though to hear about another nest with eggs.

[RCF]

Hurricane landed above him on the tower. She looks to have an egg butt. 



He started to eat the prey, a good sized chunk of meat....couldn't tell what it was.    After 15 minutes of waiting for her gift, she took it from him. I think she was scolding him.   



He left and flew over to the south light, she ate her meal.

[RCF]

I think we have eggs here!  Hurricane has been in the box in the south corner, we saw her in there yesterday and today.



We watched Sol bring her a food gift today which he took to the communications tower.



He sat there for a bit and called but she never came out of the box until he flew around the McKenzie building with the prey and then going back to the tower. That's when she left the box to go to the tower.

[carly]

You are right RCF, you can really see the 'family' resemblance in the photos you posted.

[RCF]

I have to say that Sol looks very much like his mother. They have the same head shape and somewhat the same markings on the side of the head, from a distance it is really hard to tell the two apart. On more than one occasion I have got their ID wrong.    It was much easier telling Brooklyn and Hurricane apart.

                       Sol                            Hurricane

[bev.]

thanks RCF
I know it is bittersweet.
But Ivy took over when Trey did not return, so you have good genes here

I think you probably have nice jeans also LOL

Our poor migrating a birds face so many things, hail, hurricanes , owls etc. but I believe he is with MIss Edmonton sipping cool ones on a beach

[RCF]

This morning Hurricane was perched on the nest box and Sol was right above on the McKenzie roof ledge.

 

After work she was at the bottom of the clock tower napping, he was on the south light.

 

[RCF]

The other day when I was watching, Hurricane was in the nest box chupping where I could only see her head. Sol flew up to it and then as he got to edge he bolted.    She didn't come out right away so probably making a scrape. When she did come out she was talking to him or yelling.


 



Anyway I remembered that she has a distinguishing feature at the back of her neck or nape, she has a white feather that has always been there.

[burdi]

We have been watching since April 4th and have tried to convince ourselves that the male is Brooklyn. There was just something off about this bird, he wasn't perching where Brooklyn usually did, also the breast feathers and malars were different. Today I got the band number. It is not Brooklyn, it is Sol D/20 from 2012, Hurricane and Brooklyn's son. We are glad that he survived the last four years but saddened that Brooklyn has not returned as of yet.

Thank you for all of your reports and photos RCF.

I am also feeling very sad that Brooklyn has not been seen yet.

It's really nice to know that Sol is doing well and I want the best for all of our falcons, but of course I hope this situation will not result in a father/son battle down the road.