Manitoba Peregrines > Other Peregrine Sightings in Manitoba
Non-Resident Sightings - 2020
irenekl:
Very, very interesting. I'll be looking upwards even more now.
The Peregrine Chick:
About 10 days ago, BigBird, one of our members spotted a bird at Alice's favourite spot west of the West Winnipeg territory. This was just after RCF thought the pair at the Tower site in Brandon looked not like Zeus and Alice - Alice is a very big bird for a peregrine, or at least in comparison with our females. So RCF has been trying to get a better look at the Tower birds and/or their bands but no luck so far and Dennis and I have been trying to do the same with BigBird's big bird. Given that everyone who sees her remarks on her size and because she's back in the same spot she was in last year at about this same time last year, well there's a pretty good chance its Alice again. Hopefully she will hang around long enough for Wowzer to do his magic and we might be able to clear up one mystery even though it deepens the mystery as to who the Tower birds are ...?
I should note that we have another wave of peregrines on the move through Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan at the moment. This "big bird" is not the first we have seen in the last two weeks - Dennis has had three sightings on favourite migration buildings and I have had two. The tundra birds are still moving - Island Girl who nests on Baffin Island is just entering the "River of Raptors" at Veracruz, Mexico and Felipe is a bit slower, he's near Arequipa, Peru. We don't know where he spends his summers, but wherever it is, he's not in a great hurry to get there yet.
So we have anatum birds on the move again but many of them could be hatches from last year or non-breeding birds so there is no urgency to get to a nestsite. And the tundra birds, based on their previous years' schedules, should probably wander through Manitoba at the end of May, so whether you watch them on the webcams or watch the skies (or both) there are lots of peregrines to see over the next month!
photosbydennis:
Just passing through...one bird on the back side of a high apt block, close to the main st. bridge. Returning home and as I step out of the buggy that familiar sound can be heard...then joined by a second and third, one bird circles and heads South and then some more cacking between the 2 left on the tower. Then all went quiet.
It was so obvious that even my wife noticed the bird fly over and heard all the yelling.
Just the right place at the right time kind of thing.
The Peregrine Chick:
--- Quote from: Saoirse on March 27, 2012, 15:49 ---TPC, I was driving from Selkirk back to Pine Falls this afternoon and saw what sure looked like a peregrine falcon on a post by the highway. Is that an area where a sighting might be reasonable? ???
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Could be a young bird or a migrant on its way through. Forests are not great for them to hunt but open fields especially near water, particularly if there is waterfowl there could definitely attract a bird or three.
Speaking of which - check out the video of I have just posted in the News section ...
Saoirse:
2012 NON-RESIDENT SIGHTINGS
TPC, I was driving from Selkirk back to Pine Falls this afternoon and saw what sure looked like a peregrine falcon on a post by the highway. Is that an area where a sighting might be reasonable? ???
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