Manitoba Peregrines > U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
U of Alberta - 2008 / Damon & Radisson
carly:
Well I'm at work now, watched the weather before I left for Edmonton. 15-20 mm of rain expected there :(. I hope our girl has a roof over her head of some sort. I've got the nestbox up on my desktop this morning just in case she decided to try to head for shelter from the rain.
carly:
Thanks for the report Bev, good to hear she was safe and sound for the night. If they fly too low, mom and dad will try to get them up higher. No doubt they felt she was in a safe area and they could watch over her so that's good. It takes a few flights to develop those muscles and once she does, she'll be able to fly higher and longer.
She's doing good so far!! That's our girl :D
bev.:
I am really trying to get the pictures done guys. i am tired and I have to transfer everything to photo bucket. they will not be close up shots but it will give you an idea of what she is doing.
WE did not set the settings properly.
Alison:
Thank you so much for tonight's report, Bev. I am glad Cassie is somewhere safe for the night, and that you have seen her fly. She seems to be taking her time, which is good. I miss seeing her at the nest box.
bev.:
I am going to go and do some pictures but I wanted to report my evening to you.
I went down there with a friend,. I had to wait till she was ready and so was there at 5:30.
Well no sign of Cassie , no cacking, nothing. I thought I heard her faintly a few times but thought, wishful thinking. I saw an adult on the top of the new apartment building and thought , she has moved. I looked all over the area and looked behind where I thought they would take her.
I was getting worried becasue that is who I am. I looked at all the places she could fly around the area and knew if she flew to any of them she could make it because they were not far.
I knew that she had not flown where the parents roost because that is too far and no adults were not there. the adults have been very attentive.
so at 7:30 we decided to walk by the parents buildings just in case she tried to fly there and was grounded. no adults , no Cassie
the adult had flown off the other building and I did not see it and was mad at myself.
so I went up to the top of the parkade where Peter and I went yesterday and looked all over and there was CAssie. :-* :-* The little monkey was between the right side of the nest building and one of the hospital buildings . Quite close in there . That building is about two thirds the height of the nest building and she was one storey down, on a ledge. the she started cat walking further in and then came back.
Now I was not sure how low , low was for falcons so I phoned my friendly biologist and described where she was and he assured me she was doing well. I had sent them an e-mail today so they knew she had fledged and he said she is doing very well. He said the ground is too low. ;) ;) I asked him how she could have gotten there. He said she probably flew to a roof and then flew down. By the way they are taking her where we thought they would. she was just lower down than I expected.
so I decided at 8:00 to call it a night.As we were driving out of the parkade I thought I saw the adult. sure enough I stopped on the road and could see the building at the back and the adult was a storey higher and watching over Cassie. Now I can sleep tonight.
I will have to send the biologist some show tickets after this is over for being so patient with me. He used to coach my girls in swimming so he knows that I am not a kook. :) :)
I treated my friend and I to some appetizers and now just got home.
I will post a few pictures from yesterday as soon as they are done.
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