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MN / Elk River - 2008-22

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Alison:

--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on March 25, 2009, 01:20 ---Adult peregrines seem not to be enamoured of nestboxes.  They need the gravel and the shelter, but they don't use them unless they have chicks it appears.  And it seems to start pretty early - once the chicks are close to fledge age they tend not to go back into the nestbox either - or at least that is our experience with a variety of box types.

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Some peregrines do seem to like their nest boxes. For instance, Nora, the resident female at Black Dog for many years, almost always spent the night in the nest box; she could be seen arriving home just before dark and leaving very early in the morning. The new female at Black Dog does the same thing. Also, Freedom in Fort Wayne spends most nights in her favourite corner of the nest box, and she too leaves at first light. I think if more cams stayed up during the winter, we would see more peregrines doing the same thing. It seems to be the female who likes to use the nest box year round.

Thank you for answering my question about territorial battles, TPC - very interesting information. Haven't been able to post before since my Internet connection has been barely there for the last week.

carly:
I think I'm in a time warp.  I looked back through our posts and I only saw mating on the 22nd for the first time on cam...and yet it seems like ages ago.  And yes the courting has been less than 2 weeks.

I think I'm watching too many nests  :-\. 

maggieblue:
Didn't Tracy say that it would be at least two weeks after mating before an egg would be laid?  Who knows what has been happening away from the nestbox,  ??? but hasn't the courting behaviour been relatively recent?  Less than 2 weeks?

Last year I watched the chicks hatching here and it was really  8)  So...hoping for eggs soon.  :D

carly:
I'm probably wrong, now she is outside sitting but earlier she did do the crouch thing a few times and she had her behind up high and looked like she was trying to push something out..when I watched an egg laying last week for the first time, the female did the same thing but it went on for hours before an egg finally came!

So April 23rd last year, wow that is far off.  They've been mating up a storm though, I know it takes time but that's a month away?!

maggieblue:

--- Quote from: carly on March 26, 2009, 09:56 ---I think she's in labour!  She keeps crouching down and pushing a bit then gets up again!  Either that or she ate a bad pigeon  :P

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:o wow, if that's the case she is way ahead of last year  :o

2008 Bird Cam Timeline
March 3: First falcon sighted at Elk River Station.
March 19: Courting activities observed.
April 23: Female incubated 3 eggs.
April 24: A fourth egg was laid.

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