Manitoba Peregrines > U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
U of Alberta - 2008 / Damon & Radisson
carly:
--- Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on July 30, 2008, 14:04 ---Backhoe more like :o Hard to believe Radisson is Trey's daughter!! :D
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Lol...awww...maybe that gene only passes down through the male line ::)
I just got home and opened up cam2 and saw something hanging over the edge and I thought 'oh my god she's standing outside on the ledge' until I switched to cam 3 and realized that was dinner..lol!
And thanks Bev for explaining about Monday, I did notice she looked up alot that day and wondered if she heard something. Also you never mentioned how much Cassie weighed when they did the banding, assuming they weighed her?? I'd guess she's around 950 kg, yes? One of our girls here was 950+ and I thought she'd have a hard time fledging but she took to the skies like a duck to water - no troubles at all. I see her hunting once in awhile in the early mornings here and honestly if not for her brown color, I'd swear she was her mom.
JL:
Mom just came by with a huge prey, fed baby and left half the carcass hanging out of the nestbox...I guess there's no more room in there. :) I see chickie exercising her wings. She is getting lots of dark feathers in, shouldn't be too long before she takes off.
The Peregrine Chick:
Actually now is when the chicks have the coordination involved to start feeding themselves, before now it has been a case of "pat head, rub tummy". Funny to watch but not very nourishing.
The adults won't feed anymore, or at least not often. School has begun. Now they will drop if off intact and she will have to figure out how to get into it. Know just how she feels, took me a bit of time to figure out how to dissect a quail with the least amount of gore.
Unfortunately, you don't get to see all the neat things the adults teach the chicks on a webcam, most of it happens after they have left the nest. Things like flying upside down to catch prey - that is something pairs do to/with each other during courting! And remember the story of the maritime peregine - Madaleine - she loved to fly upside down ...
JL:
Glad to see she's learning to self-feed. I guess if food is left there, she's hungry and Mom's somewhere hiding from the biologists, ;D she'll eventually figure it out.
bev.:
Just to let you know.. they did try for several hours to trap Raddisson again to put a transmitter on but no Cigar. she is too unsure of things she does not know. the chick was not taken out this time . they went to another level of the roof and tired various tactics. they will probably not try again.
if you watched for a great time on Monday you will have noticed the chick looking up a lot. I am assuming the female was vocal and not having anything to do with the trapping.
Here are a few shots of our girl trying to self feed . she is getting better/ They do not expect her to fledge until between 45 and 50 days. oops , i forgot to do thumbnails .. sorry. her dark head feathers and some on body are coming in
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