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MN / Elk River - 2008-22
carly:
Oh gees..I was out shopping and missed it all :( Maggie I have a question, did 30B bring her original mate from Sherco here when she moved here in 2007 for that one year or did she mate with the tiercel who was here last year with the other girl?
I did remember though that whoever was in the box the other day did not have a damaged foot, for some reason the foot thing stuck in my head and I did look at her feet. So if you are now saying 30B is back and the timing would be right - it's mid month and the other one is not the one from Sherco then there may be a battle unless the one we saw was a tiercel.
I wonder if by chance the female from here last year decided to play musical nestbox and went to Sherco? I wish peregrines came with labels :o lol...or LARGER bands we could read with the naked eye!!
maggieblue:
O.K., we may have a little drama here at Elk River as it appears to be 30B, the falcon with the injured left foot, who is here. She and another peregrine who is out of sight have been calling back and forth. I wonder if this is the male from the previous two years.
I checked the latest Sherco pictures and on one image only there was a pair of Peregrines in the box facing each other in the head low position. This may mean that another female has taken over the Sherco site. ::)
maggieblue:
Good News! There is finally someone back in the box at 13:40 Central Daylight time.
maggieblue:
There were some posts last October about the Sherco female. Alison filled us in on the background of 30B. She had nested at Elk River in 2007 and then returned in 2008 to her original home at Sherco which is about 20 miles from Elk River. She has a missing talon and is also banded so she was identified when she visited Elk River last October. There was some concern that both females might return here in the spring.
carly:
Well it's 7:30 am EST here and I've got the cam up again, was hoping to see someone here since it's so early but no luck.
You are probably correct Maggie, that never occurred to me that it might be someone passing through and decided to ride out the storm here. I do not know that area at all and didn't know there were all those other sites around so that makes perfect sense. I did check your link and honestly I could not tell if that was the same bird. Your powers of observation are much better than mine as I didn't notice white on the head. All I could seem to focus on was 'holy cow' it's a total white out and that bird is shivering in the cold!!
Hopefully it will warm up there and our pair will return shortly - the web site indicates they usually return around mid month so we may just be ahead of ourselves or perhaps she found a warmer place out of the wind to hang out at until her mate returns.
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