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Offline kittenface

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1126 on: May 06, 2009, 10:27 »
Maybe she's laying # 2 right now ::)

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1125 on: May 06, 2009, 07:21 »
last year second egg came 3 days later so I guess it is a wait and see. :-*

Last night I was tired but my report left out that he deposited food on the tower :-[ :-[
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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1124 on: May 06, 2009, 06:37 »
7:36 am EST and just arrived at office.  Only one egg still however Radisson just came in and is now sitting on the egg so perhaps #2 is on the way shortly  ;)  She is also looking drowsy  :P
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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1123 on: May 06, 2009, 05:07 »
6:00 am EST and Radisson is outside on her perch.  Too dark yet to see if the egg has a sibling  :-\

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1122 on: May 05, 2009, 23:20 »
Peter and I went down this evening just so I could check on where they have sitting when we do not see them.

I think some of you may have figured out that I am not sure about the male yet.  Some things seem different and some feel the same so I am still waiting to get a good band check and he is not being cooperative.
When we got there  Radisson was sitting on  one of the bars on the heart building , adjacent to nest box.  The male was not in  sight.

Then  Radisson flew over Peters head(I had to go else where) and around the area and then   across to the nest box and sat on the outside perch looking in. 

Low and behold we heard that fabulous echupping.     In came the male. A food delivery. He deposited the top of a tower  below the roof  below  the nest box(to the far right).
 Radisson immediately flew down and claimed her meal. The male then flew on the bar of the Heart building.
 There were feathers flying everywhere as Radisson defeathered her prey. Some flew in our direction.
then the male flew over to one of the towers on the building that I call RAdissons. College plaza.

When RAdisson was finished she flew over our heads and then flew across to heart building on one of the bars.
that is where we left them.
Maybe and egg tomorrow.


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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1121 on: May 05, 2009, 20:41 »
I love this forum!!!! 

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1120 on: May 05, 2009, 20:27 »
So glad there's always someone with an answer! :D    We can learn SO much on this site. 

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1119 on: May 05, 2009, 19:20 »
Aha..I may have figured it out -well kinda- thanks to wikepedia and several other sources on the web...the egg shells are made of calcium carbonate (the white) and the pigment (the red) is called protoporphyrin and apparently strengthens the eggs.  They say the eggs can be white to red to brownish depending on the bird and some do have characteristic patterns.

Very nice explanation here:

http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/peregrine-faqs/question-why-are-the-eggs-red/

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1118 on: May 05, 2009, 19:08 »
It seems the raven egg has been removed altogether. 

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1117 on: May 05, 2009, 19:01 »
I don't know about Peregrines, but if that was a brown chicken egg, the farmer would be checking for bronchitis   ( the chicken variety).  I don't know if Peregrines can get it too.   Egg shell color is caused by pigment deposition during egg formation in the oviduct, so maybe its just unique to this bird if she's had funny tattoos on her eggs before. 
maybe she's just a show-off !  lol   ;D

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1116 on: May 05, 2009, 18:42 »
Bev...I love how you did the slideshow!
I sense there are more eggs to come  :D
Does anyone know what the white ring on the egg is?  (ahem, I feel the name "ringer" happening  ::))

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1115 on: May 05, 2009, 16:23 »
Really nice slideshow Bev, love the details you added - very spring like  :D.  I was so busy at work today that every time I checked all I saw was lone egg until I got home now and Radisson was there on her egg but now she's gone out  :-*

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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1114 on: May 05, 2009, 13:46 »
Radisson has been spending time incubating off and on. I think we should expect another egg by tomorrow morning.
click on picture


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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1113 on: May 05, 2009, 07:43 »
A few more shots. I saw egg was rolled and then he/she lay on it and now is half sitting half laying, but egg is covered. Adult has head tucked in behind and is sleeping





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Re: U of Alberta - May 2009
« Reply #1112 on: May 05, 2009, 07:40 »
6:37am
Adult has returned. I am thinking the male.
Still trying to get bands. :-\ :-\