Manitoba Peregrines > U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
U of Alberta - 2008 / Damon & Radisson
bev.:
Sorry about all my spelling errors :-[ :-[. i went back to correct and I couldn't. I sometimes just type too quickly.
bcbird:
Thanks Bev. Love to hear about the two girls playing together. What a different fledgling experience Cassie is having from being the Lonely Only chick in the nestbox.
bev.:
I was blessed again tonight. We went down earlier and I will not to that again. I ddi no twant to meiss the feedings but we nearly missed it all.
There was no one around :( :( we walked the whole campus and I found another parkade at the other end of campus to go up. I did manage to see one falcon flying. we think they were out at the river with the adults.
We decided to go home after 2 hours of nothing and then we looked around and someone was flying by the Ed building so we went back. of course when we got there no one was home. so off we went again on our way home.
A nice young intern ;) stopped and talked to me about the falcons and he told me he had seen both playing around the Ed building around 14:00 so I was happy they were spotted.
Peter picked me up as I climbed another parkade but no cigar :( :(
As we were driving past the Ed building I looked back and there they wee . One on the roof edge and one perched on the tower.
Poor Peter, I yelled pull over. Well where, we are in the middle of traffic. Of course , somewhere illegal again ;D ;D One has to do what one has to do ;) ;)
Well the 2 girls put on a show for us. We were too far away to get decent shots but I will prepare them anyway. It will give you an idea of what they were doing. I was killing myself laughing. One would perch on the tower and the other would buzz it and try and land on top . :o :o
Then they did precision flying allover the area and some talon touching. what a treat. I thought I was going home without seeing them but there they were.
We did eventually have to go as they flew off and s we drove down the street I saw them perched at the Students Union building. maybe a snack was coming.
They are flying so beautifully. I can only hope their hunting is coming along also. this i will entrust to the adults.
I will post the pictures tomorrow. We are looking to find a map on the internet so I can share with you the area so you can see that where they are now is not that far for them to fly from their nest area but to walk it is a different story.
Peter and I enjoyed walking the campus tonight . It was balmy but so beautiful. These 2 girls have really given me something special. :-* :-*
carly:
Hi Bev! I didn't get the option to start a New Topic either otherwise I would have so I figured maybe I didn't have the rights to and decided to wait until someone else did it..so no worries...*ducks* from TPC's shovel - we tried, honest we did :-[ :-[.
Thank you for the update. Sounds like mom has warmed up to Hope as well which is all to the good :D :D Happy to hear that both girls are doing well and ditto on the humans not thinking about the impact on wildlife when they do things :(
bev.:
Sorry, I do not know how to start a new thread. :-[
We got there rather late last night becasue of detours but we did see both of them.
Cassie and Hope were on the corner of the Heart building.
We only saw Hope at first but then up popped Cassie's head. Like I said I can not always tell them apart but I could tonight.
Cassie appeared to have been eating but Hope was just perched facing in so I hope she ate before we got there.
Peter will download the camera later. We did not get much in way of pictures as the light is so poor now but I think we may have a good one of Cassie.
A question I will pose to the biologists this week is about the heart building. There is a helicopter pad ready to go soon and it is on the top where the girls like to perch. I am wondering how this will affect our peregrine family nest year. This is the Stars ambulance pad and they have one presently on the hospital and it goes behind the clinical science building. This is going to go right in the path of the nest box >:( >:(
What a waste of taxpayers money. It does not come in that often but..... I am sure the adults can adapt but one more thing for the fledglings to battle. this always makes me so made. I sometimes wonder when we are going to learn to take steps forward instead of backward.
Back to my report. After awhile Hope flew off to the Education building. We ran over there and she appeared to be eating. Lighting was poor so I do not know if we got good pictures or not. Mom was perched on one part of the building and then came to a tower a bit closer chupping as she came
After a bit Hope started to cack like crazy. Mom was perched on a tower on the building and about a half hour after the caking mom went beside her on the roof ledge and I could not see what she did but then she moved farther from Hope and Hope appeared to be eating again.
It was getting dark so we decided to call it a night . As we were leaving and walking past the Heart building and close to moms buidling a falcon flew overhead .Too dark to see who.
Pictures later. It is cool today so it not raining we will go tonight , if not I will go in the morning
Anytime I see them both :) :) I am happy
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