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Offline allikat

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1663 on: April 07, 2009, 21:35 »
I don't know Liz..I thought for sure there was going to be an egg today because she was sitting in that nestbox looking like, well you know  ::)
Eagle seems to think that she's going to lay her first egg on Thursday!  We'll see  :P

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1662 on: April 07, 2009, 21:33 »
Where the heck is that egg that she's been working on since Sunday??!  Maybe it's a breach-egg?  (27 hours of back labour here!)  

she's a peregrine with a sense of humour ... she's messing with us .... :D

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1661 on: April 07, 2009, 21:19 »
Where the heck is that egg that she's been working on since Sunday??!  Maybe it's a breach-egg?  (27 hours of back labour here!) 

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1660 on: April 07, 2009, 18:04 »
Mom isn't in the nestbox as of 6:00 pm CDST but SOMETHING is there.  At first I thought that it was just a feather blowing in the wind but it is something small and it's head keeps going up and down.  Can anyone with better eyesight make a guess?  Just something to pass the time while we wait, and wait  ;D

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1659 on: April 07, 2009, 15:23 »
..kinda looked like she was going to take a big poop, more than once  :P

She's been lookin constipated for days now and we keep thinking, this is it - I'm thinkin it might be her unique way of 'moonin us' peepin toms  ;D

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1658 on: April 07, 2009, 15:02 »
I'm wondering if this falcon is going into labour??
A couple of times it just looked like she was but then nothing?
So, I"m not sure..kinda looked like she was going to take a big poop, more than once  :P

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1657 on: April 06, 2009, 21:46 »
Well...it looks like it's another night of staring out into the unknown!
Sometimes I wonder what these raptors are thinking?
Hmmm... let's see here:  "will this light ever shut off so I can stop sitting here staring at it?"   :D

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1656 on: April 06, 2009, 11:41 »
Elk River is back online and Mom is still hanging around in the box.   ;D  Lots of noise and commotion there though.  I have never seen so much steam/smoke discharged from the biomass power station, clouds and clouds for quite some time.   ???

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1655 on: April 06, 2009, 08:57 »
Me too Maggie, I think today will be the day!  She was in there for quite awhile this morning and she looks quite bottom heavy this morning.

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1654 on: April 06, 2009, 08:46 »
O.K. folks, go to Elk River,  Mom crouched in the corner looking like she might be thinking about producing an egg.  :D

Oh darn, sorry for the false alarm, as soon as I posted that she went out on the bar.  I am still thinking that it will be soon though.
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1653 on: April 06, 2009, 01:13 »
The counter on the camera says I've been on for 4h30m.  She still hasn't moved. 

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1652 on: April 05, 2009, 22:54 »
this bird is beautiful, maybe wintering in the south, maybe the glow of motherhood (soon to come), but she looks healthy and is quite at home sitting and watching...

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1651 on: April 05, 2009, 22:32 »
Yup!  Just like last year.  
I LOVE the lines on this bird.  Beautiful plumage!

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1650 on: April 05, 2009, 22:02 »
Is that falcon still just sitting there?

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1649 on: April 05, 2009, 22:01 »
Thank goodness for the headlights on the road below, or I'd think it's been nailed to the perch!