Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
MN / Elk River - 2008-22
carly:
Oh my god, territiorial fight in the nest box :'( :'( Oh my god. I've turned it off, my hands are shking - I can't watch :'( :'(
carly:
7:52 am EST and peregrine on the wrungs outside calling to someone. They are hidden behind the GRE logo so I can't tell who it is >:(
maggieblue:
So earlier today I didn't see anyone here but just caught someone in the box vocalizing. I think that it might have been the dad from last year who has a somewhat distinctive head. All I can say is that it definitely was not 30B as the left leg was fully visible and very much intact.
carly:
8:02 am EST and someone flew in or should I say flew to the outside. Can't see who it is but I can hear the noise and it's a peregrine!
And it's 30B, she just hopped into the box. She has a feather on her beak and was chewing so she's just finished brekkie I take it. Now she's on the edge of the box chatting to herself it seems.
Alison:
--- Quote from: carly on March 15, 2009, 16:06 ---Ok there are 2 females there it seems - just checked the other board where Alison is and she has pictures and the one we saw the other day is not 30b. But the one I just saw is 30B they are saying....yikes.! I hope no one gets hurt :'(
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Today is the first day I have actually seen a peregrine in the box, and it was 30/B. Carly, as far as I know she did not bring her mate from Sherco with her when she moved to Great River in 2007 after their nestbox at Sherco was destroyed by lightning. I also saw the pic of two peregrines in the Sherco nest box today, but couldn't tell who they are. Since the two nest sites are only twenty miles apart, perhaps the female from Great River is there.
I didn't know 30/B had injured both feet - I had only read that one foot was injured, and that it was probably a recent injury when she arrived at Great River in 2007, since the foot seemed to bother her a lot. She has a great deal of trouble walking; she has had a very hard life. She was born in Cleveland in 2002, and in October of that year she was admitted to the Raptor Center with head trauma. At that time she was unbanded. Later she was released at the Mayo Clinic.
I only hope there will not be any territorial battles at this site.
Here are today's pics:
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