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NSW - Charles Sturt University - 2017 / Xavier & Diamond
burdi:
Update by Cilla Kinross, September 22
Up and down
Everything seems to be working at present from my end, although I understand there are still live streaming problems. I’ve contacted Scott about this. In the box, all is going smoothly and I’m hoping to have some hatching by 25-28th September, which I can record if all the necessary equipment is functioning smoothly. Xavier did bring in some (unidentifiable) prey today, which is a good sign.
Many thanks for all the photos and videos. No need to send more photos at present, but long low resolution videos from between 1300 h on 18th September to noon on 21st would be welcome so I can fill in some gaps. If there is a website where these are stored, please point me in the right direction. Don’t try and email them.
I just went through the volunteer’s work from the time I was in Brisbane and found this photo of Xavier with the eggs that I couldn’t resist. Such a good boy.
Proud father
There’s going to be a university wide power outage tomorrow morning, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the system is down all weekend. Hopefully it will be up again before H day (possibly Monday).
Have a lovely weekend. Cilla
Source: http://www.gumtreecs.com.au/wordpress/up-and-down/
Click on the above link to check for further photos or videos. Videos from Cilla are usually in AVI format, but they download quickly and should play in Windows Media Player (or whatever player you prefer for AVI).
Live streaming problems still continue - on and off and on and off and … sure hope they manage to fix the problem before hatching!
burdi:
Cilla Kinross says:
20 September, 2017 at 2:08 pm
I should add that, even if I had the time, I don’t have access to the live webcams either (which I’m assuming are working okay), so am quite blind to the behaviour in the nest. In theory, I could record comings and goings in the field, but just don’t have time. as this would mean sitting outside 24/7!
Source: http://www.gumtreecs.com.au/wordpress/both-cams-gone-now/
burdi:
Update by Cilla Kinross, September 20
Both cams gone now
We have a major technical hitch, unfortunately. Scott is working on it, but I don’t know when we will get recording back up again as there doesn’t appear to be a simple solution. So keep your photos and comments coming, if it is not too much trouble. I have to admit that I’m not sure at this stage how useful they will be. When it was just the ledge cam out, it was wonderful as your photos confirmed my assumptions, but now with both out, it will be very patchy as I record the duration of all behaviour of both birds in minutes (and half minutes), not just when things happen. Happy for suggestions for new solutions. I believe there is a program that records screen shots every few minutes or similar, which I’ll look into.
Chicks are due to hatch 25-28th September……so not that long, now.
Thanks so much for all your help.
Cheers
Cilla
Source: http://www.gumtreecs.com.au/wordpress/both-cams-gone-now/
burdi:
Update by Cilla Kinross, September 17
Ledge cam out
The ledge camera still seems to be working live, but I’m not getting any recordings, so I have a favour to ask. If you have any sightings of either bird sitting on the LEDGE between 0400 h on 16th September till now (well, until we can get it fixed), I would very much appreciate it. Most of the important data are still being captured fine by the nest camera, but as Xavier often sits on the ledge while Diamond is incubating, I’m missing these data unless I can see his tail. If I can get spot sightings, I can probably be safe making assumptions about his presence/absence.
I was getting a bit worried about the lack of food prey coming in, but clearly Xavier is a modern peregrine, which thinks the female should do her share of hunting! She sometimes comes back from quite long absences with blood on claws, pretty good evidence of hunting (although the off site stash is still an option). She clearly was not that hungry on the 15th as she lay next to a stashed starling for some time, as did Xavier – see photo. Most prey has been starling or pigeon and X still seems to think that the eggs can eat the prey. That bodes well for him sharing feeding duties when the chicks emerge.
I’ve noticed that Xavier also spends quite a bit of time relaxing on the ledge, while Diamond is incubating (but not the other way around). This behaviour is peculiar to this pair. And he also is spending considerable time incubating and is quite comfortable doing this. Certainly neither Bula or Beau, our two previous boys, were that competent in that department – often being quite clumsy and wanting to quit soon after settling. And the previous female, Swift did not do any hunting to my knowledge once eggs has been lain until much later. She had short breaks and chased the boys out as soon as possible (that’s if there were still there!). Mind you, she was an old girl and in her later years spent much time sleeping in the box, even in the day time.
Cheers Cilla
Source: http://www.gumtreecs.com.au/wordpress/ledge-cam-out/
burdi:
Scott replaced the infrared illuminator and included a photo of it in this latest update.
Night light is in
Published 9 September, 2017 | By Scott Banks
The new infrared illuminator went in this afternoon. It was fairly straightfoward, although Diamond was put out with the disturbance. She came back after about 10 minutes though. The old illuminator had 12 LEDs but this new unit has 48 so we’re hoping it’s not going to be too bright. Darkness will tell, shortly now as I write. If it’s too bright we may be able to cover part of the illuminator to cut it down. Time will tell but this should give us overnight coverage again.
[ IR illuminator works! That’s good quality night vision but we might try to cover a few LEDs to cut the light down a little… Scott ]
http://www.gumtreecs.com.au/wordpress/night-light-is-in/
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