As I continue to call our little Logan resident TOT, I was thinking this name needs to stay. The letters could represent her full title...…………………… T of T. Just a thought!
So the question I've been mulling over is whether the "Name the Chick(s)" contest should just be for Tot or for Tot and her cousins at West Winnipeg.
We are going to give the Radisson a miss this year in part because they are on the east side ledge, in part because Fiona is new here and has already been very stressed when there was work being done near the nestbox just before she was ready to start laying. Although she appears to be a very solid bird, I don't know her well enough to risk her wanting to avoid the Radisson next year should she return. So we will let the Radisson chicks go unbanded unless they run into trouble and end up grounded or in care, then we will bling them up no worries.
As for the McKenzie Seeds chicks, much as I want to band them (and I really really want to band them), the state of the part of the building where we need to access the roof is just too much of a human health hazard so we will not be banding them this year. RCF will watch them fly on our behalf and hopefully (knock on wood), they do well and we won't have an opportunity to band them, but if we do, we will.
So what do folks think? Contest to name a) Tot, b) the West Wpg chicks or c) Tot & the West Wpg chicks?