Other Peregrine Projects > USA Peregrines
MN / Elk River - 2008-22
2kawaii:
Tuned in around 10. Find parent watching the chicks at the front of the box. One of the chick complains "I could really use a snack right now" and got the others going for a while. Parent picks at leftovers in the box but there isn't much to work with to feed them. The chick settle back down for a nap and at around 20 after parent flies off on alert, and you can hear them yak-yaking in the background. We get a view of two ladies in helmets being moved over to the box in a lift,by a third guy operating the lift. Everyone is wearing safetly helments. One lady is in charge of the camera taking pics of the chicks. The second lady has a tupperbox and carefully loads the chicks into it, covers them up with the tupperlid and off they go from our view screen. She mentions that she thinks two of the chicks might be girls.
With the chicks gone, one of the parents (I think the same one who was in the box) comes to land on the back perch by the box. They sit there making a strange "sighing"/meow like noise. It sounds like he/she is depressed ??? Believe the people doing the banding are just below the box somewhere because adult bird keeps looking down.
At about 11 parent flies off. By around 11:05 the chicks are safely returned to the box.
RCF:
Chicks being taken for banding. I think I heard them say all three are female. :)
sparkster:
The three chicks are scheduled to be banded on Friday at 10:00 a.m.
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: Baffled on May 22, 2014, 08:46 ---... We suspect this action was in possible defense of an owl. Mary Ellen knocked one of the eyasses out of the nest box during this activity..."
--- End quote ---
Aw... this is too bad. :'( Glad to hear the other 3 are okay, though.
Baffled:
Yes, Sawatzke is sometimes a bit awkward/clumsy in the nest. :P
Here's some more information about the lost chick, from the Great River Energy site:
We’re happy to announce that four eyasses hatched this past weekend. Sadly, one of the eyasses was found dead outside/below the nest box. We reviewed the birdcam footage and discovered that early on May 18 Mary Ellen was on alert and quickly left, and returned to, the nest box three times. We suspect this action was in possible defense of an owl. Mary Ellen knocked one of the eyasses out of the nest box during this activity. The three remaining eyasses are safe inside the nest box.
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