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Other Peregrine Projects => Canadian Peregrines => Topic started by: bev. on April 20, 2009, 12:57
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2009 NESTING SEASON
I had only one cam up so missed that. when they observe falcons, they do it from a hidden view. so not sure what they were checking. was that the roof you see on Web cam 1
I just got a report from one biologist and the transmitter girl was 1600km south of Edmonton on april18. They have had a storm in Colorado(sorry, that is where she was)so that may slow her down. but at the speed she was going . they expect her around April 24. I will get another report on the 22nd
I can tell you I am not getting much done here. I am itching to go and see wha tis happening but I have so many chores to do.
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This is such great news Bev!
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Just have one more hurdle, the transmitter girl.
so I am praying hard.
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What great news to wake up to!!! I admit I was worried but I guess 'all in their own time'. Yay...I bet you slept well last night Bev ;) I will watch this morning and hope to see one or both !
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I will have to check the color but I thought it was silver It is like this O|Y.
I also just got this e-mail
As of the 21st, homeless was in southern Montana, about 100km south-east of Billings She was 1000 km from Edmonton, so looks like 24-25th for her homecoming, unless she catches a tail wind, or hits a spring snow storm
Cross your fingers that nothing happens and that she does not try here again.
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What a great day! Radisson has been there most of the day! I will keep my fingers crossed for TG. Perhaps with the increase in the falcon population we are seeing, she may succeed in finding herself a new mate this year!
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There is a falcon at the box that looks quite ruffled, and unlike other days, is looking inside the nestbox; could this be "Homeless"? She is due back today, according to the news reports on the website.
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I just got home from doctors and allis quiet at the box. Eli, you should a transmitter on homeless if it's her, you'll see a little antena on her back (kind of like a little backpack with a little wire sticking out).
Here is a photo of Quest from Rochester and you can see her attena clearly.
http://rfalconcam.com/imprints/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/quest2.jpg
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I just received this e-mail. needless to say I am very sick inside right now. I do not know if I am cut out for this. I am hoping transmitter girl does not come to the site. I am sure the bilogisets will be there this weekkend. I have been praying so please keep your fingers crossed.
Homeless crossed the border this morning. At noon April 24, i.e. and hour ago she was just west of Pakowki Lake, south-east of Foremost. I would expect her 'home' tomorrow afternoon! Sunday at the latest I will check the website this evening to see if any further transmissions tell us where she is by nightfall.
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Is it possible she may not try for the nest this time after having lost the previous year? Perhaps she might do a quick fly-by and see someone home and just keep on flying?
Keeping positive thoughts here for both girls.
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Homeless has been homeless for a number of years - if there are other nestboxes in Edmonton she may just buzz by the Campus and move on. And she spent a bunch of time near Red Deer didn't she last year? If not Red Deer, where was it? As I recall there was another dislodged/homeless male that floated around last year too ....
Basically, she hasn't be successful here for a couple of years, no reason to assume the worst. Her imperative is to produce offspring, she hasn't been able to do that for a couple of years so the chances are just as good that she will find another location. Think of Ivy - last year he tried his luck at the Radisson then moved to West Winnipeg. Trey's father was the same way and spend a few years at the U of M campus before taking over the Radisson territory when his father disappeared in the midst of incubation ...
Think happy thoughts ...
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For the last two years the Transmitter girl was in south Edmonton on the Weber building. This was after she lost her fights.
She lost her site in 2007 to Balzac girl, after a nasty fight . The biologists separated them. She tried again the next day and was chased off. She flew around south of Edmonton and then north of Edmonton and ended up on the Weber building.
Last year she tried again but lost and went right to the Weber building. when her wounds healed she tried one more time , we believe, at the site and ended up in Rehab.
So I am really hoping that she has realized that is not a good place to try.
The transmitter male lost his site in Ft. Saskatchewan but ended up on a trestle bridge outside of Ft . Saskatchewan and successfully mated and had 2 chicks.
Unfortunately his transmitter stopped at the end of September and so they do not know where he is.
Peter and I know all the sites in the area and we went to the Trestle bridge last year and observed. We observed at a few more also. so when the weather smartens up we will go for a gander.
There was a falcon at the Weber building last night and I took a picture and sent it to the biologists. I am hoping it is a male.
This building is not a good nest site though.
I am keeping positive thoughts and praying for good measure.
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I got an e-mail and with the head winds etc. and cross winds they think will hold the transmitter girl up. She may be in this evening but if not tomorrow morning. They will not get another reading for a few days now which will be too late for us.
I had to babysit this afternoon and am going out tonight. I wish I could stay and watch here but it is a function for my husbands work. My fingers are crossed . Please e-mail me if you see anything. the biologsits are probably watching also. the biologists are hoping people are watchng the cam. but if anything happens we might not even see it.
I am going out with positive thoughts .
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I was just kidding also Carly.
I am glad someone is getting nice weather.
Have a great falcon watching time.
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Oh please...no more drama.
It's wonderful to know that TG is on her way back..it's always fantastic news to hear about mature peregrines coming back (home).
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I have jsut been to the Weber building and then spent an hour on the parkade with one of the biologists. He has been there since 7:30am and will stay there for a bit. another biologist will be there around 4:00pm Needless to say i am cold and wet. So the TG is on the Weber building on one side and another female is on the other side. boy, boy. they will not fight there as it is not considered a nest site.
So now for the nest site building. The female when I left was on the south side of the nest building. and the male is on the heart building. Wayne saw some copulation, on the heart building but no feeds. I showed him where I see them feed so he will be looking at that.
So far everything looks O.K. TG might just be resting up first, This site is considered the second best site in Edmonton area. The best site is Downtown Edmonton. the female there is pretty formidable. I guess they wanted to put a nest box on the Weber building but the manager will not hear of it. :(
and yes, the weather is pretty crummy. So it is still wait and see.
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Good news Bev! And Radisson must have heard me because she's back now...lol ;D
Interesting that 2 females are on the Webber building...we need some males for them and 2 nestboxes!
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So the TG is on the Weber building on one side and another female is on the other side. boy, boy. they will not fight there as it is not considered a nest site.
It isn't just the nestsite they will fight over. They will definitely fight over the core area of a territory but they will defend as far as they are inclined to - sometimes right to the border, sometimes just out of the immediate vicinity. Will also depend on the time of the year. If the birds aren't fighting, only Radisson knows why ...
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And I certainly do not want any fighting.
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Went to see TG last night . We are waiting for transmissions today. but she was not there . All was quiet at the site.
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May 25
the sun is shining and incubation going great I have been busy as of late, keeping track of the Transmitter girl. the biologists have been out in the filed, so I have been sitting down at the WEber building for hours at a time. Great news is TG girl has a mate and they are copulating and I believe they have eggs or are in the process of laying eggs. I need a few more days to know for sure, but i have a concert tonight.
I think Weber is Home base and the nest is somewhere I will not disclose at this time. becasue not quite sure yet but pretty sure. with a few of the biologists back today, they might be able to investigate also. I cannot tell you how happy I am that TG finally has a mate . She has had 2 seasons of He-- there will more news coming but I am cautious with things at the moment. so I have been busy.
I will do a slide show of what i saw. I have tons of pictures but will only download a few
Slideshow - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev12/?action=view¤t=d77117a4.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev12/?action=view¤t=d77117a4.pbw)
Slideshow - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev12/?action=view¤t=f2a9aa32.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev12/?action=view¤t=f2a9aa32.pbw)
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That is wonderful news Bev. I am so glad that you are keeping an eye on transmitter girl and that she has a mate and possibly chicks to raise.
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Oh Bev, that is fantastic news!! I"m thrilled for you and for TG - she's a good mom and so great she has a new mate..woohoo!!
Not so great for hubby I guess..lol..now you will be running him from one site to another :P
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Bev, need band numbers (TG is unbanded right?) and/or identities. And if you can pinpoint the nest-site, we can set up a new board - one for Radisson, one for TG.
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The male is unbanded and this is our girl from the clinical science site so I will try and get band numbers I believe she is an Edmonton girl also but I will check.
I have to check out a few more times . I guess it can be called the Weber building site becasue that is where they thought she would nest and I could be wrong . so I will check on Tuesday. They are still on WEber building but after the second copulation he stayed on Weber building and she flew down to this other building, which I will not name yet, for security reasons, and we did not see her fly out. Unfortunately this building is not as high as probably most places they nest ::) ::)
And yes Carly, hubby is just shaking his head.
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May 25
Great news is TG girl has a mate and they are copulating and I believe they have eggs or are in the process of laying eggs. I need a few more days to know for sure, but i have a concert tonight.
Bev, that's wonderful news about Transmitter Girl! She was always one of my favourites, and she has had such a hard life. I wonder who her mate is. Talons crossed that everything will go well for her this year. Please keep us updated.
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Thanks guys. the Il Divo concert was last night Liz. I t was LL that went to it first in Winnipeg.
Luckily for me the hatches will of course be different and the fledges should be 3 weeks apart. the University ones should be well on their way before the ones from Weber. the Weber builidng is only a 10 minute drive away so I can do 2 at the same time. I will not be able to do as much as last year I am sure but I am hopeful there are a few people in Edmonton that will also observe. maybe even set up a watch of some sort.
Now remember I am assuming there are eggs. but from all I have seen and observed I am confident. But when they get the tracking from the transmitter they should be able to see if I am right. the male is unbanded and I am hoping he is a good male like at the clinical science site. tomorrow the biologist gets his computer back and then we should know the tracking.
they are still doing a great job of sharing duties at University site. A good match up
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Good to hear all of that, bev. Thanks. Now that I think of it, I guess you could go from one territory to the next (by TPC's descriptions) here too, east to west, in 10 mins. It's the north to south part of the territory that's bigger. Is that the same with yours?
I love to see eggs at this site. I haven't for awhile (Elk River - guilty :-[) All I ever see is incubation (where's that 'snoring' smiley?). Do they still have all the eggs?
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7:42 - Radisson is on the eggs.
I have been observing at the Weber building the last few nights. Spent until 10:45pm there last night. I will not disclose where she has decided to nest. So far it appears to be just a scrape. She stays there a lot but can see Weber building from where she is. the male now stays at Weber building . TG girl has been on guard at her nest site and one of the biologists has confirmed she has started a scrape. I will give details as I can. she remained there until 10:45 last night and then went back to her letter on Weber building. They each have their favorite letters. I am hoping for eggs by the weekend or early nest week. This is just my observations from what I have observed with behavior at clinical science site and other cams. I would like to camp out there. for a day but i am trying to remain as inconspicuous as I can. so keep your fingers crossed for my girl.
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BEv, thanks so much for sharing the photos of TG and her new beau!! Any idea who he is yet? I wonder if he's one of the fostered chicks from years before or someone totally new.
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My transmitter girl had 5 in there one year.
I think I will give her the name a friend of mine in Buffalo named her when she was the clinical science site. Miss Edmonton. What do you think???
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Miss Edmonton is a fine name Bev and much more personal than TG or 'homeless'! ;)
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Sounds good to me, Bev.
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ditto
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Good name for the falcon!
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Miss Edmonton is a fine name Bev and much more personal than TG or 'homeless'! ;)
Oooh, like Eddie :D
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Miss Edmonton....PERFECT!!!
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Very nice name and definite improvement over "homeless."
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Eddie works, for short. Just like we call Cassandra, 'Cassie'. ;D
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9:39 - I am writing this quickly I am keeping close watch on both sites starting today. Peter and I spent 6 hours at the Weber site last night . Very tiring but we could not leave. I will make a long story very short.Well as short as I can ;) ;)
Everything appeared fine from 4:30 -6:10 We see them both on Weber building when we get there. then Miss Edmonton flies off and goes onto roof of Weber building. We believe they have food stash there. Male flies off and comes back with a bit of food in his mouth. Miss Edmonton flies off and back on a letter. Male flies up and almost touches her.(we thought they were going to copulate) then male flies off NE and Miss Edmonton flies over to the ledge of what is her nest building and lies in scrape and then is up. she stays there about 9 minutes. a lot of flying around and up on Weber roof and then we find them on a machine building roof a little north.Female is standing over prey but not eating . Male is on back of roof of Weber building and comes down to machine building after female vocalizes and she take s off but we do not know where male flies off to south east around 5:50
Now I have 7 pages of notes so I am just trying to summarize
6:10 - Two falcons soaring the building .One lands on E of Weber and then off and then both are soaring. Then my heart stops. There are 3 falcons.S--- Lot s of noise and flying :o :o :o :o Lots of flying and swooping and vocalizing by all 3. I cannot tell yet if male or female intruder . (I am a mess).Yes adn I try to clap the intuder away when he flies over us ::) ::))
6:25 - Miss Edmonton lands on E of Centre and the other 2 keep going at it. We can tell them apart becasue our male is much smaller. that is why we thought 2 females at first. But I think I am right in assuming that the 2 females would fight and the 2 males fight. But at first all 3 were . so I am thinking juvenile that it is bigger but who knows. Our male is crafty and keeps flying back inside one of the letters, but the other falcon soars around the building and keeps coming right in front of both. Lots of talons out and upside down and I am (you got it right ) crying .(lots of ******* also) but I have to watch as I want to be sure if one is downed we are there to phone the Wildlife rescue. Eventually one flies off to north an we know it is our male that returns to letter.
7:05-7:30 - Miss Edmonton flies around building and the 2 switch places on letters. Then Miss Edmonton and the male fly around the building and then Eddie flies off and goes to her nest site building .She lies in scrape and then up . she stays there for about 8-9 minutes They both fly around and then one flies N and one flies SE and we saw it stooping pigeons So we decide to go for supper to a restaurant right there I have to use two posts as it says I am long winded ;D ;D
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8:00 - I check on them and they are both on letters on the Weber building
8:20 - We come out and I hear cacking and the intruder is back.( We thought for sure he had been driven off before as he was given a few good whacks by our male and he wobbled a bit and flew off ,) Lots more of the same . But \Eddie remained on her letter. Our male kept coming onto a letter and cacking. He would then take off after the Intruder. and Intruder gone again . Our male takes off south (to make sure)
8:40 - Intruder is back and soars around the building. Our male is not back yet. Miss Edmonton does not move or make a sound. The our male comes tearing in. More of the same but this time our male implants himself on antennae of Weber and the Intruder goes across street to an aerial. Intruder and our male are up and out to the north and then our male comes back. I saw the Intruder finally clear the area and fly south at about 8:55
8:56-9:30 - Our male is back up on antennae and then he flies off in front of building and then both fly around building. Miss Edmonton flies onto C of building and the male goes onto roof where we think their stash is. male flies off and around and cacks to female and then he perches on C and she goes onto roof where food stash is. After a bit she flies out and in front of male and cacks and then flies to her letter on other side of buidling
so my night was a nightmare. My thoughts are muddled but I am sure Miss Edmonton was glad it was not her being attacked this time and frankly, so was I. will she ever get a break though. My God. I am worried and we will go down later today. I do not want this male dethroned. We are sure it is still him. We saw no bands on him and he looks the same (a few ruffled feahers) i believe the other one was lighter in color but so hard to tell. the only way we could tell them apart was because ours was smaller and faster.( the sun was in our eyes and we could not figure out how to video yet eith this new camera.)
so the big picture is if the intruder came here he may try the clinical science also so be watchful that you see the 2 and the male is the same.
I will be checking it out also if I can. I will try and post some pictures later. i am frazzled to say the least
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If you want to try to tell the two male (?) apart, don't focus on overall colour unless there is a marked difference - one very pale, one very dark. The light will change the colouration when they fly. If you can, find a feather related to their breast colours (some with speckles high, some not) - but don't rely on the rufous-coloured wash, that changes over the course of the breeding season. The other place to look is at the malar stripe - look for differences on both sides - some will be smaller/larger, clean-edged, ragged or irregular - that will help more and seems to change less. And look for bands - not the numbers but what colour and what leg - coloured bands don't always end up on the left leg or right leg (trust me) so if they are different that is a quick and easy way to spot them and decipher from photos even if the photo isn't perfect.
Just a couple of ideas if you aren't already using the techniques ...
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Oh, Bev! It must be hard for you to keep watching and reporting.
There will be phanatics eyes on our Radisson and Damon today watching for any changes.
Take good care.
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Thanks for the update, bev. You had quite a night!
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Thanks for the tips TPC.
WE are looking through all our shots,closeups. We were going mostly by the head markings and the chest. We are quite sure we have the same male but will check again tonihgt. We did not see any bands on our closeups and the resident male is unbanded(of course so could the other)We trying to go on habits also.
that should show tonight as last night I am sure he was rattled.
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Just so theer is not confusion. Raddison and Damon are at the clinical science building. Miss Edmonton(TGgirl) and unbanded male are at the Weber building. these sites are about 10 minutes apart by car but not in each others territory. the intruder came to the Weber site and I am hoping he got the message. We will check out later today. My concern was that these 2 sites are so close and in the same flight path that the intruder might try for the clinical site.
I am just being cautious. My fingers are crossed and anything else that I can cross ;D ;D
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Just so there is no more confusion, going to pull Bev's Weber bird posts and start a new couple of boards ...
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Thanks TPC.
I am jsut waiting for the information on bands of Miss E but I may have to take some closeups myself.
Because male is not banded no information on him.
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Hey Bev. Know you are trying to stay calm. I hope everything sorts itself out. Edmonton has sure been an exciting place this year, maybe a bit too exciting! Thanks for sharing your careful notes with us, it paints a great picture of what is going on (even if that is still not totally clear).
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Bev just read you story on BCAW about what is going on in Edmonton. Hoping for the best as always. Great that we have more falcons this year but if they keep this up, they won't have any offspring to follow them!!
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Thanks, TPC. ;D
bev (or someone), catch me up here, please. Eddie doesn't have eggs yet right? I know you can't see the nest, but I don't think they've been together long enough to produce eggs?? Or right about now, maybe.
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no eggs yet . but she is going to the scrape. so if things settle down I am hoping for 1 or 2. It is getting late but...
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I will write a report later as I am on my down to both sites
was at Weber until 11:15 last night and it was a good evening. I am hoping things are back to normal(what is that :))
Lots of good things to report.
I believe it is the same male. nest ledge was only unattended for 15 minutes yesterday. male and female were both there
and when I left Miss E was still in scrape.
So will do a better write up later
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I am going to summarize Saturday and Sundays visits becasue you do not want the pages of notes I have here.
We spent 5 hours at the site on Saturday evening You could tell the male was still on alert, but I am positive it is the same male by our picutres
The exciting thing for me is that Miss E spent Saturday and Sunday night at the scrape. At least when we left after 11:10pm she was still there so I think that would be the night for her. While we at the site Saturday and Sunday, the scrape was only left unattended for 30 minutes. Both Miss E and Beau ;) ;)are lying in the scrape. She is there more but he is taking turns.Good sign
SAturday he flew to scrape with food and then flew off with it. Now I know this is a courting ritual but also, I witnessed Damon take a small bite to Radisson and then leave with it after she laid her first egg. I will try not to get ahead of things though.
May31
We went down at 3 separate times and every time someone was lying in the scrape. When I see them moving around I imagine what they are doing from what I have seen on the cams I am not going to say where the scrape is for safety reasons of the pair. but after observing the site I feel it is a good place for fledging . It is just not as high as I would like and it is not private. But Miss E knows what she is doing . the male seems to be doing a good job. He ceertainly takes his turns at the scrape. Now yesterday they were always lying in the scrape but on Saturday they were lying and sitting.????
Peter and I are very careful to not let anyone see when we are looking at scrape site. the Weber is O.K. becasue a lot of people know that the pair are there and they are just assuming they are nesting there and that is good. I will say the restaurants and junk places get more business when Peter and I are around observing. Last night ,though we took popcorn form home and water.
We even know the cleanest facilities to use ;) ;) Peter has been so understanding right now. He knows how I feel about Miss E and that I jsut want to be able to pinpoint hath dates if thee are eggs. the more we are there the more he is learning and seeing also. so let us hope they are clear sailing now.
I will post picutres but my computer is running slow for some reason right now and it is taking forever to upload but I will get some posted. I will be goin tonight also
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Well I guess siting and observing for the last 3 years as sharpened my instincts,.One of the biologists Just e-mailed me and he went down to the site and they are now incubating 2 eggs. I knew it by their actions. So I cannot give you pictures of the eggs of course but his is great because the fledge won't be as late as it could have been so then they will hatch around the beginning of July I imagine. O f course there could be more but at least this gives a good estimate now. So I know where I will be July long weekend ;) ;) I am going to get a good picture of her and a good one of him later to post
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Congratulation Bev!! What wonderful news, so happy that Miss E is going to be a mom again :-*
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I cannto tell you how elated I am.
I am going to call the male BEau. I liked the way TPC had the 2 names together.
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This is wonderful news to all, especially you, so glad that Miss Edmonton (Eddie) will have finally have a chance. Fingers crossed that all turns out well at this site, which I am positively feeling that it will.
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Oh that's just amazing news!!! Can't wait for more updates...
Thank you Bev!
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Great news, bev! I'm thrilled.
I loved your last paragraph -- we know how the $ can add up when you're running around. And thanks again to Peter for being such a trooper! He's your shoulder, on which we're all leaning!
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Very exciting news, Bev. Thanks for all the legwork that goes into your reports.
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ahh yes, shoulders and legwork.
head and shoulders, knees and toes.. and hips, feet, and rubbing thighs! ;) 8) (oops, I don't mean you, bev!)
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I dis not go down last night but went down Monday and Tuesday night to check on them and they are doing great.
I now have a new mouse, so I am busy sifting trough my hundreds of pictures. Should have some posted tonight.
Having trouble keeping up with everything. sorry.
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Was down at the site last night and tonight. The male at this site does not have a band. They were thinking of banding him but, it did not happen. they are doing nicely but the cold is not helping. I had a special friend down there tonight.. someone I can trust not to reveal the site. That person is going to discreetly check on things while I am gone.
I will download pcitures when I came back I promise. WE only have about 500. So I have to pick the BEst.
the male is doing a great job and I find it touching that he goes over and sits by MIss E just before he tucks in. Miss E may have more than 2 eggs. That is just what Gord saw when he checked on Monday. I figure a hatch around the first week in July and fledge around the middle of August. I was hoping they would put a nest tray there but I think not.
I will be keeping a real close eye on them. I find it interesting that when he is on the WEber building he sits on the ledge one down . MIss E always sits 3 or 4 down. We are calling him BEau , right. It is hard to see them when they are incubating , right now as it is so cold that they are scrunched right down. but with patience you can eventually see a bit.
So I will post pictures when I get back late next week. If I have time I will try and sneak in a few before I go to bed.
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here are just a few shots I have more of Miss E . Just have to figure out how to get hem so you do not see where she is nesting.
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I will be going down tonihgt to do a spot check here and seed that everything is O.K.
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A friend of nature went down on Wednesday night while I was away and reported all was well. thank-you very much.
I went last night to see for myself and Miss E was on the Weber building and Beau(the male) was in the scrape. You can not see Beau when he is hunkered down and that is good Miss E flew off the Weber building a few times. She went out of view but we are assuming eating at the stash or hunting or just getting some exercise. We waited until Beau got up and flew over to the Weber building ,one ledge above Miss E. Miss E then flew over to scrape and settled in for the night.
I do not take many pictures because I do not want to alert anyone to where the scrape is. I think we have one of Miss E from last night and I will post later
and I am thinking, how will I ever keep up with 2 sites :) But there is no cam here so I will do it.
It rained last night and just started as we were leaving.
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We do not take too many pictures here as not to disclose site(nest site)
When we got there Miss Edmonton was on the top southeast ledge of Weber building and Beau was incubating. We got there about 7:00pm There are always gulls around but I am always looking to make sure intruder never comes back.
At about 7:42 Beau sits up at nest site and looks around and then he flies off to Weber building and lands on top ledge on NE side so they are opposite each other.(he is telling her to be careful for the night and he will stand watch) Miss Edmonton then flies off of nest ledge and settles in for the night .
I only have a shot of Miss Edmonton tonight but will go through pictures for other shots tomorrow. I will get some more of the male. We are just trying to lay low so no one knows what we are looking at. The weber building is O.K> bu the other one is one we are keeping quiet about. I was worried this morning as we had rain all night and all morning but sun is out now. I am not sure if Edmonton got it. they do not have too much protection.
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Question????
Are nest sites disclosed (as in all Geographic areas is seems) for reasons of "stupidity amongst the humans" or do the falcons abandon their nests because too many people are looking up from below - "we're not a side show" (which seems odd) but? why?
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This nest site is not very private so we do not want unwanted attention. And where this is , we might get " Stupid" humans interfering.
by that I mean people who do not know any better.
when the eggs hatch and I can get pictures of the kids, I will but I will block out the site.
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Question????
Are nest sites disclosed (as in all Geographic areas is seems) for reasons of "stupidity amongst the humans" or do the falcons abandon their nests because too many people are looking up from below - "we're not a side show" (which seems odd) but? why?
When nest sites are kept anonymous it usually has something to do with security - for the birds and the building's occupants. There are always people who want a closer look, so some sites are not disclosed. It was/is much more common at cliff-sites because it is almost impossible to be able to secure those sites because of their location, sites in cities are much more "secureable" so we can use them for educational purposes without putting them at risk much of the time. As for people looking up a tthem, the peregrines don't pay the least attention to us except when we get to close to their chicks or their nestsites.
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I hope I did not offend by using the word "stupid". I think I clarified it. I just used it in reference to another comment made.
So many people are not educated as to falcons or any other bird species and so the need to protect is there.
they are not" stupid". Just uneducated. I wish more educating could be done.
I went to the site last night and everything looks good . I will post a few picutres later.
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Don't stress it bev. I think it was generally understood what you meant.
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WE went down on Friday June19 adn everything wa O.K> I got a few shots of male but blued out the background fro obvious reasons. there were also some shots of Miss Edmonton. We could have got some good flying ones of Male but did not want to be obvious. We will go down again tonight to just check as we had a real downpour ,in St. Albert last night. I want to make sure everything is O>k. at the site.It was like a monssoon here. WOW!!!!! Do not know what it was like at the site.
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Thanks for the update Bev. I hope the nest and eggs are okay and didn't suffer any damage.
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Thank you for the update and pics, Bev! I hope everything is okay with Miss Edmonton and Beau. They both deserve only good things.
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Bev..thank you very much for the updates!!! Hope all is well!
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This is the most difficult thing I have had to do in a long time Many of you that know me via the cam, have probably noticed that I have not posted much this week. It is beca use I have been camped out at Weber building.
Monday of this week, June22, Peter and went down to the site and we noticed that the male was not there. We thought he went out hunting.
But he did not come back and relieve Miss Edmonton, as he usually does in the evening. We stayed there until dark and no male. but Miss Edmonton kept eggs incubated except for a few minutes. She was not stressed at all.
Tuesday I spent all day at the site except for 1.5 hours. No male the whole time. Miss Edmonton only left for about 3 minutes , to the Weber building to their stash. Probably to eat. I went home in that 1.5 hours to notify the biologists.
Tuesday night Miss Edmonton called and called, and I cried and cried.
Wednesday I went down for most of the day and by now Miss Edmonton is only on the eggs intermittently. No male. I mentioned to the biologists that it would be nice if dummy eggs were put in and hers taken out to incubate. Dummy eggs , in case the male comes back or she attracts another. On Wednesday ,Miss Edmonton flew in all the directions that the male usually went. She was looking for him. She perched on all his perches plus her own. I kept her company as I wept . I knew that eventually she would have to leave the eggs more and more so she could hunt.
Thursday , due to family commitments I could not go down. but the biologist e-mailed me and he had gone to the Weber building nest site and put dummy eggs in the nest and took out hers. Gord said she had 3 eggs. Miss Edmonton flew over the building while he switched eggs but she made no sound which he said was strange. He then took them out to TEfrys(falcon breeders) and they incubated them for 20 minutes and then candled them. 2 eggs had live embryo. So they will incubate them. This brightened my day .
I know that we are not to get attached but anyone that knows me knows that this is my girl and I so wanted her to have a good year. I understand all about nature and everything but I was literally sick all week. We have no idea what happened to the male. We scoured the area and no sign. He would not have just up and left so something must have happened while he was out hunting. It could not be an intruder or the intruder would still be around.
We believe he went missing sometime Monday as Miss Edmonton was not stressed on Monday at all. Peter and I went down Friday night and today. Friday night she was still facing the nest site but on the Weber building. She flew off and stooped pigeons at a distance but did not stay away long.
Today she was on the E on the Weber building but after a while she flew on the opposite side on the W. She had no view of the nest site so she has abandoned it. I knew this would happen. Words can not describe the empty pit in my stomach . everything looked so good . He was a great male.
So we will continue to go down every second day just to make sure she is O.K. and to see if a new male turns up just to keep her company for the rest of the season. I guess It is better it happens now than just when the eggs would be about to hatch. So with a heavy heart I will sign off now.
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When I asked if I could share the news about the eggs eith you Gord said
Feel free to report on any of this - I think it shows just how important diligent observers can be in peregrine management - in all likelihood, you have saved two young peregrine's lives!
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My heart goes out to you, Bev. What a difficult week you have had.
Yes, we all know the great attraction and affection you have for this particular Peregrine. Miss Edmonton is very special and you have been very faithful in watching her and hoping this would be her year.
When I asked if I could share the news about the eggs eith you Gord said
Feel free to report on any of this - I think it shows just how important diligent observers can be in peregrine management - in all likelihood, you have saved two young peregrine's lives!
You, Bev, in all likelihood, have saved two young peregrine's lives! That is the good that is saved from this tragic experience. Take care.
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So very sorry to read about Miss E and her mate and the eggs Bev. Thank you so much for what you did for them. Poor Miss E just can't get a break. :'( :'( :'( :'(
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So sorry things went this way Bev. To you and all involved in Edmonton towards the effort of these birds I sympathize. The energy that goes into the success of these nests absolutely ends up involving alot of emotion so as I feel sadness myself I can only imagine how difficult this is for you. Hang in there my girl and know that we're all standing by cheering you and Miss Edmonton on for next year. In the meantime I enjoy reading your posts and appreciate all I learn from your efforts in keeping the peregrines thriving. So carry on just like "they do in nature", carry on.
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Oh Bev, I'm so sorry. You did save 2 future falcons. Way to go.
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bev, I can't imagine how hard it was to watch her looking for her mate. I'm very glad you were able to get the biologists to take the eggs and that 2 will be saved. That's the best outcome possible from a bad situation.
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Oh Bev, I'm so sorry to hear about your girl... :'( I can't even imagine what you're going through. I know this is hard but, the positive and good side to this is that you saved 2 eggs and Miss E is safe and strong. All your dedication has paid off for Miss E as you in fact saved her eggs. You are her Angel! I'm sorry that this happened to her...she's one great Falcon. The good thing, which you stated, this didn't happen as the chicks were hatching. She will carry on and delight all who's watching her hunt for food. Let's all hope Miss E gets the best next season...she deserves it!
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How sad. Poor Miss E. She has had such bad years lately, and just when it seems things are getting better, this happens. How hard for you, too, Bev.
I do hope somebody finds out what happened to her mate, not that that will make any difference, but it's always nice to have that bit of closure. Thank goodness you were able to save two of the chicks-to-be.
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Just for those of you who don't know all the names yet, the Trefry's are the breeders we got our two chicks last year for Princess & Trey to foster. Princess and Trey turned us down so the chicks went back to the Trefry's and they were subsequently placed in breeding programs in Alberta and BC so their genes will be out there in the next couple of years! The Trefry's are great to work with and their peregrines rock! They were responsible for all but a couple of the captive-bred birds we released in the early days of the Project and which formed the basis of our current success.
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Thanks for that news TPC..they certainly do rock!
Bev is Miss E's angel....so maybe there will be 2 of Miss E's genes flying about soon enough!
I know that doesn't make the situation any better Bev, but you saved 2 eggs.
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Just for those of you who don't know all the names yet, the Trefry's are the breeders we got our two chicks last year for Princess & Trey to foster. Princess and Trey turned us down so the chicks went back to the Trefry's and they were subsequently placed in breeding programs in Alberta and BC so their genes will be out there in the next couple of years!
So the little ones grew up to stay at the Trefry's, or other breeders, rather than being released?
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Just for those of you who don't know all the names yet, the Trefry's are the breeders we got our two chicks last year for Princess & Trey to foster. Princess and Trey turned us down so the chicks went back to the Trefry's and they were subsequently placed in breeding programs in Alberta and BC so their genes will be out there in the next couple of years!
So the little ones grew up to stay at the Trefry's, rather than to be released!
Actually both left the Trefry's for other breeding facilitie if I recall correctly ... doing well last I heard, but probably not breeding until next year at the earliest. If I get more news, will be sure to pass along!
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Bev, I am so sorry to read about what happened at Miss Edmonton's nest. I was hoping everything would go well for her this year. She is such a great peregrine, and was always a great mother when she had the chance. I hope the two eggs will hatch, and am glad you were able to have them taken care of. I wonder what happened to Beau - this is just so very sad.
Thank you for everything you have done to try to help this pair. I really admire your dedication to these beautiful birds.
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Bev, as sad as the event of the male is be glad that all your deligent work has saved to eggs. Here's to the future. Hopefully Miss E will have better luck next year.
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I have still been keeping an eye on Miss Edmonton. she is looking great,sad as I am.
she has now re-gained the top perches to oversee things. When the male came she relinquished that to him. that is something I found interesting at both sites. how the male for the most part perches higher. I guess because he is the chief protector.
I will find out soon if the eggs have hatched and are O.K. Fingers are crossed.
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We all are Bev. Fingers and toes!
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I'm very glad to hear that Miss Edmonton is looking good. Talons crossed for the eggs to hatch - that would really be something!
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Peter and I sat for a bit with Miss Edmonton last night .She was n her favorite letter and looked wet but good. We keep hoping she will get company from another male. Will post shots later
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Gord e-mailed me today and one of Miss Edmontons eggs hatched. I am so happy about that. good genes. the other would have but Phil said there was a wee hole and it dried out too quick. One is better than none :-* :-*
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That is happy news indeed, Bev!
No doubt you will let us know the progress of the chick when you get updates.
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What will do with the chick bev? Are they going to hack it on it's own or is there a foster family who could take it? I hope he/she isn't alone at least and has some company.
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Gord e-mailed me today and one of Miss Edmontons eggs hatched. I am so happy about that. good genes. the other would have but Phil said there was a wee hole and it dried out too quick. One is better than none :-* :-*
Very happy news Bev...very happy!!!
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Gord e-mailed me today and one of Miss Edmontons eggs hatched. I am so happy about that. good genes.
the other would have but Phil said there was a wee hole and it dried out too quick.
One is better than none :-* :-*
I am so pleased to see that one of Miss Edmonton's eggs hatched. She is such a great falcon. Looking forward to updates on the little one.
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I still want a picture of the young one but they are going to keep this one for breeding. the wee one is too young to foster into any of the nests that are active. I am good with that. We will some good genes to pass around. Miss Edmonton is doing well and I still am hoping for a loose male to come by.
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I have been keeping an eye on Miss Edmonton ,s well. She is still well and looking good and watching over her site.
We are still trying to get a nest box there.
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Still no males hanging around her?
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I have been keeping an eye on Miss Edmonton ,s well. She is still well and looking good and watching over her site.
We are still trying to get a nest box there.
I'm glad to hear that Miss Edmonton is doing well. What will it take to get a nest box for her?
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A lot of smooth talking. they refused Gord so I am elected.
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;D I just love the name "Miss Edmonton" I hope Winnipeg get's a "Miss Winnipeg" or even "Miss Manitoba" - hey why not both! ....one day... ;D
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A lot of smooth talking. they refused Gord so I am elected.
I have faith in you Bev...if smooth talking doesn't work..perhaps mentioning how CBC keeps in touch with you - in a nice way of course. Nothing like the possibility of a little bad publicity to change a person's attitude ;)
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Congrats to you and your team of watchers. You have attracted so much good publicity that it surely can be put to advantage to help getting a nest box for this site. A snowball effect so to speak, all the news from one site and now the possibility of another site to watch should make some people reconsider. The public has started to become involved and with the chance of another site, it could get even bigger. Keep doing what you can and I certainly applaud you and everyone else for making good things happen with the falcons. Lot's of good wishes :)
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;D I just love the name "Miss Edmonton" I hope Winnipeg get's a "Miss Winnipeg" or even "Miss Manitoba" - hey why not both! ....one day... ;D
We had a Winnie after Winnipeg (and just like "the Pooh") who was a very productive young lady in Omaha, Nebraska - our first bird in the US if I remember correctly. Her kids are still around in Topeka and I think in Wisconsin ...
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I have been keeping an eye on Miss Edmonton ,s well. She is still well and looking good and watching over her site. We are still trying to get a nest box there.
A lot of smooth talking. they refused Gord so I am elected.
Try the "it will keep the pigeons away" benefit ... I get asked to install nestboxes on totally unsuitable buildings all the time because the managers want to keep the pigeons off their building (for free) and they figure I can tell the peregrines what to do ::)
Don't know the management structure, but if you've been talking to building management, try higher up the administrative foodchain or the building's owners. Peregrines are great for publicity, keep pigeons down and they can claim to helping the environment by "hosting" a species-at-risk. You've probably been doing this already, but had to be sure since I know how badly you want a nestbox there. Keep in mind, that a box isn't always necessary ... and some birds won't use them even if they are there ...
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Hi: Peter (Mr. Bev) here. Just went down to the Weber building to check on "Weber Girl" aka "Homeless" aka "Transmitter Girl". Saw her sitting on the W proud as punch and to my surprise off to the right of her on a ledge just below was another falcon. Could be she has found a new mate. Wouldn't that be great! I took pictures but don't know how to add them to this post. Haven't had that lesson yet from Bev. Also went down to the University of Alberta but only saw the adult female. Not surprising as it was the middle of the day. I'll go down again in the evening in a day or two and I'm sure I'll see more of them. Its getting that time of year where they are thinking of migrating so would like to see them as much as possible.
Bev won't be back till the end of September as she has to still play nursemaid to Dad and I will be going out there to help her and hopefully drag her away for a short holiday.
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Go Miss Edmonton!! Hopefully she will indeed have someone to come home to next Spring...I hope she has a safe migration and look forward to seeing her have a successful nest full of babies next Spring. She certainly deserves it...she's a survivor that girl!!
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Try the "it will keep the pigeons away" benefit ... I get asked to install nestboxes on totally unsuitable buildings all the time because the managers want to keep the pigeons off their building (for free) and they figure I can tell the peregrines what to do ::)
Don't know the management structure, but if you've been talking to building management, try higher up the administrative foodchain or the building's owners. Peregrines are great for publicity, keep pigeons down and they can claim to helping the environment by "hosting" a species-at-risk. You've probably been doing this already, but had to be sure since I know how badly you want a nestbox there. Keep in mind, that a box isn't always necessary ... and some birds won't use them even if they are there ...
There a lots and lots of pigeons in Regina and gulls too.... ::)
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Go Miss Edmonton!! Hopefully she will indeed have someone to come home to next Spring...I hope she has a safe migration and look forward to seeing her have a successful nest full of babies next Spring. She certainly deserves it...she's a survivor that girl!!
So so happy to hear about Miss Edmonton. You go girl!!! Get that mate waiting on you wing over talon :P
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Hi Everyone: Mr. Bev (Peter) here. Went down to the site at U OF A tonight. Saw Dad fly up and land on his perch on the aerial on the Windsor Park Building. Was walking towards the Education building when I saw a falcon sitting on the corner of the building. Took a picture and then the falcon flew over my head and just above me on the building behind me I saw Mom. The falcon who flew over, I'm sure was Froona, by the size and the way she looked. She landed where Mom was but Mom took off and flew down to the College Plaza building. Froona then took off and landed on the back of the Suite Hotel. In any event I saw the three of them. The boys were no where to be seen and are likely gallivanting around the country side. Dad and Mom turned in at their usual spot and Froona flew off somewhere, I could not see where.
I then drove down to the Weber building and it was getting pretty dark. I managed to see a falcon on the "R" on the Weber sign and another one on the NE corner of the Weber building 2 floors down. Both seem to be still there. Hopefully this turns into something next year. Looks promising anyway.
Good to see my wife back on the computer. Am going to have to teach her how to type and spell though.
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I will give a report today about Weber building.
What a year. Miss Edmonton looked as though she was batting a thousand . But although the male went missing I was able to alert Gord soon enough so that at least one egg hatched. I truly think God intervened because I think the chicks would have drowned in the same storm that took 3 of the Red Deer chicks. So hopefully a nest box next year. No pictures yet of Miss Edmontons chick but she is named Ramada and Helen says she has a pleasant disposition. They are just starting to fly her. Yes, she will used by them for falconry and breeding. I am happy with that as it was too late to foster her into a nest. Helen says they will give a chick back next year , which means that if a nest needs an extra chick , they will provide it.
MIss Edmonton did acquire a new beau and one picture shows her eating a pigeon 2 ledges below the male . so he probably provided it, which holds in good steed for next year. You can bet that if I was here at the time I would have been down there all the time observing. but Peter did a good job just catching them.
I will try later to get a better picture of the male blown up. He was gone when we got back. Last year the Damon left on Sept 29-30(from University) so I am assuming this male left around then if not sooner. we did not see him when we came back.
so Miss Edmonton is looking real good and last night we caught her eating her supper. We have seen her every night this week so far. I like to watch until they leave. this time of year is so quiet, and it always brings tears to my eyes. We never know what the next season will bring . we all have our favorites and Miss Edmonton and Damon are mine. but I would call this a success for Miss Edmonton . she has an offspring. Way to go
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I will try and find Peter pictures of male form Sept5. ;) ;)
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Thank you, Bev. It's a treat to have your reports again. Your dedication and affection for Miss Edmonton comes clearly between the lines! We all hope that next year will be a great year for her.
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Thank you, Bev. It's a treat to have your reports again. Your dedication and affection for Miss Edmonton comes clearly between the lines! We all hope that next year will be a great year for her.
Ditto, couldn't have said it better. Thanks Bev, great to hear about and see Miss Edmonton again! I sincerely hope she comes back safely next year. Snow last night in Calgary apparentley, did it hit you guys? Maybe the falcons will take off today if they sense the snow.
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no snow yet but we had rain and it is cool.
Peter and I will go to both sites later this afternoon, with our parkas on.
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Thank you so much for your reports on Miss Edmonton, Bev! I love your photos of her. She has always been one of my favourites, and I am so glad she seems to have found another mate. Thanks to you, she did have one chick this year - it is so good that Ramada is doing well. Wish we could see photos of her.
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I am trying to get photos of Ramada but Helen has been out in the field and I do not know if she is back yet. I will keep trying.
I am also waiting for tracking information from Geoff as to where Miss Edmonton is at the moment. I suspect she is almost at her destination. she goes there much quicker than she comes back.
I believe Miss Edmonton left on Oct 8 as she was there on Oct 7 but no sign after that. that is on par with last year.
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Thanks for the info Bev, I hope Miss Edmonton has a safe and uneventful flight to her winter home and can't wait til next Spring when she comes back :-*
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Thank you for the update, Bev! Talons crossed for Miss Edmonton to winter safely in Colombia and return safely in the Spring. I hope her new mate also stays safe, and returns to the nest safely in the Spring.
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Here's to a successful nest for Miss Edmonton next season....we love you miss E!!! Good luck to you and safe flying!
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2010 NESTING SEASON
While there isn't a cam on this site, it does have some very dedicated caretakers ;) who are happy to provide photos and updates on a regular basis.
The female on this site was called Miss Edmonton last year but I can't recall if she is the one with the transmitter on her ... perhaps our devoted Edmonton watchers can give us an update. I know there is a peregrine named Homeless with a transmitter but I never remember if she is the one in Edmonton at the Weber Building site ... help? ???
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Miss Edmonton is indeed transmitter girl - Bev named her Miss Edmonton so she would have a dignified name instead of just 'homeless girl'. She was previously the resident female at U of A but lost a fierce territorial battle with the female prior to Radisson (can't remember her name but Bev will know).
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Thanks Carly, was worried I was getting my identities mixed up :P
I was at a conference with Geoff Holroyd from CWS recently and of course we started chatting peregrines and he referred to her as Homeless which is kinda unusual, the Alberta gang are notorious (in my experience) for not naming their peregrines!! But maybe that has changed over the years, I keep forgetting how long I've been in this game :o
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This is jumping the gun a wee bit as none of the Alberta (to my knowledge & snooping) have returned yet, but thought y'all might be interested in this old article I found from the U of A Folio collection - its about Ms Edmonton/Homeless/TG .... Had to snag it from a cached version as the original can't be accessed (could in Jan, just not now).
U of A falcon wintering in South America
U of A Folio News Story - 4 November 2005
The female peregrine falcon that nests on the Clinical Sciences Building is now sunning herself in Colombia, according to tracking data supplied by the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS). According to Geoff Hurly, associate director of operations and energy management, the falcon left Edmonton sometime after Oct. 12. By Oct. 18, she was about 100 km northwest of Houston, Texas, and by Oct. 23, she was somewhere near Tikal, Guatemala. At last check, she was 200 km north of Medellin, Colombia.
"Her speed of migration has been pretty impressive," said Gordon Court, a biologist with Alberta Fish and Wildlife. "She did 2,900 km in four days. Right now she's just drifting south looking for a good place to winter, which means mainly a good place where lots of prey are concentrated."
After a scrap with another female last summer, the falcon was fitted with a satellite transmitter while being rehabilitated by U of A falcon researcher Dr. Alastair Franke. Franke, whose own research focuses on peregrines in Rankin Inlet, NWT, suggested to CWS researcher Geoff Holroyd that he might find the tracking data useful, because Holroyd follows the migration pattern of falcons. One reason for tracking the falcons, said Court, is to find out where they are picking up pesticide residue.
"If we had enough of these birds marked and were able to take tissues from either their bodies or the eggs they lay when they come back in the spring, we could identify parts of South and Central America where they wintered and find out how dirty they really are," said Court, who works closely with Holroyd and Franke.
Pesticide contamination, particularly from DDT, drove peregrines to the brink of extinction several decades ago. In 1970, there was only one known pair in Alberta. Because DDT use has declined over the past few decades, however, the species has made a strong recovery and have been delisted from endangered to threatened.
"They will be reassessed next year and may be taken off the threatened list as well if they continue to improve," said Court, adding that there are now about 52 known pairs in the province and five in Edmonton - one nesting on the downtown Telus building, one at Inland Cement in the west end, one on an Imperial Oil flaring stack at 34th St. and Baseline Rd., a new pair on Saskatchewan Drive west of 109 St. and our own pair here on campus.
Despite the recovery, says Court, peregrines are still picking up DDT and other organo-chlorine pollutants when they migrate south. "One of the birds we had a radio on went to Mazatlan and nested in a very intensive agricultural situation where they were growing tomatoes. She was quite heavily laden with DDT residue."
The U of A falcon will likely return in March or early April, says Court, and there is a good chance she will try to reclaim her Clinical Sciences nest, where the ongoing drama will likely continue. "She may find the male she was paired with last year has another female, and it gets quite violent. But usually the bird that's been there the year before is successful in retaking the territory," he said.
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And she did retain her nest that year. but lost it in 2007.
We now have 7 nesting pairs in Edmonton and then Genessee(downtown, Ft. Sask, university, high level misecordia hospital, inland cement, Weber building,( gas plant ,not sure abut this one)
My gal :-* :-* :-*
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yes, homeless and Miss Edmonton are one in the same. she is our transmitter girl. They do not like naming our peregrines so I do it for them. But it is not recorded. I jsut told them I would not call her homeless. Gord was laughing yesterday when I talked about Froona , our female juvenile from last year.
Miss Edmonton lost her site in 2007 to Miss Balzac, who in 2008, fought again with Miss Edmonton and won. 2 days later Miss Balzac lost to Radisson. She was a young female so it was too bad. I have witnessed far too many fights and so I am always nervous this time of year.
I watch Miss Edmonton all the time. Geoff tells me she is heading home and then I wait and watch for her.
she has wintered not too far from the transmitter male from Genesse. Gord says they have not left yet as far as he knows.
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I just received an update that Miss Edmonton sometime before April6, which is when her transmitter turned on. she flew from northern columbia through Panama that day. On April 12she passed through Costa Rica into NIcaragua.
She is on her way :-* :-*
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Yay..hope she has a safe flight home! I know you're anxious to see her again Bev! Safe travels Ms Edmonton!
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I just received an update that Miss Edmonton sometime before April6, which is when her transmitter turned on. she flew from northern columbia through Panama that day. On April 12she passed through Costa Rica into NIcaragua.
She is on her way :-* :-*
Holy cats she's late on the move ...
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I just received an update that Miss Edmonton sometime before April6, which is when her transmitter turned on. she flew from northern columbia through Panama that day. On April 12she passed through Costa Rica into NIcaragua.
She is on her way :-* :-*
Holy cats she's late on the move ...
The Genesse male left late too, perhaps the biologists are correct in thinking they slow them down somehow. I know Bev had mentioned that they were wondering about that.
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Miss Edmonton is 2 days later , than last year on the move. could have been weather.
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On april21, Miss Edmonton was in North Texas.
Go girl go.
Tonight we spotted a falcon at the Weber building. Hopefully they are just stopping there or it is male from last year.
will post pictures when they are processed and I send them to biologists.
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Oh good news Bev! Let's hope it's a boy come a courting Miss Edmonton :-*
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one of the biologists thinks its a female :( :(But we have to get ID.). If female ,I am hoping it leaves soon.
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Peter and I were there at 2 different times yesterday and the falcon that was there the other night was not there. we will e checking it every day now to see when Miss Edmonton returns.
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I forgot to mention, Miss Edmonton ,on Saturday, april24, was on east side of Colorado springs. she is taking almost the same route ,she has taken in previous years .
I expect her by the weekend.
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I've been watching the HawkCount website and we've had more peregrines moving in the last week than I have seen in the last month!! Don't know if they are tundrius or whether they are other anatums like Miss E who are taking their time on their way north ....
personally, think they are anatums, there are transmitters on some tundrius and they haven't left South America yet ...
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That's interesting TPC. I wonder if it's something to do with climate change or the earthquakes down there have somehow thrown off their timing. Wouldn't their inner clock be set to sun position in the sky at a certain time of year and/or amount of daylight that lets them know it's time to go home?
Admittedly I am clueless about all this so just throwing things out at you so forgive my ignorance if I'm on the wrong track. I remember reading on Froona's site that it's the amount of daylight in the spring that turns something on in the falcons brain - sends a signal if you will that it's time to breed so I'm just wondering if the same principal would apply to migration?
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I don't remember when she came back last year, Bev might. It may be that she isn't late or not very late at all ... some birds are like that. And there apparently are a whole lot more peregrines on the move right now ...
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I don't want to say it out loud but I wonder, could a certain someone who is also MIA be late and on the move.... :-X
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I'm looking up migration now...you knew I would.. ;) Finding some interesting, divergent points of view and a few that mention magnetic fields...so the earthquake could have affected their timing it seems ..if that theory was proven.
More recent research has found a neural connection between the eye and "Cluster N", the part of the forebrain that is active during migrational orientation, suggesting that birds may actually be able to see the magnetic field of the earth
Off I go to read more! :D
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Carly, this is very interesting! Thanks for passing along your research discoveries.
How do scientists study brain activity in a bird, anyway? and, especially during migrational orientation?
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MIss Edmonton is not really late. she only left 2 days later this year ,than last year. Now last year she was here on April 26
I still feel it is the transmitter.
Last year she was in Colorado on april18, this year she hit Colorado on april24. I do expect her in a few days.
she is dodging storms, and that will delay or slow down flying time. they go between 250 and 400 miles in a day.
the Genesse male is really late. I do worry about that We will just have to see how he does.
Now Alastair's Rankin Inlet transmitter birds are on the move .
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... they go between 250 and 400 miles in a day...
That's amazing, bev! I had no idea they travelled that much territoy in a day! :o
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I was at the Weber this afternoon and M iss Edmonton is home. Well she had a transmitter and so it must be her and it looked like her. I am in a hurry but I will post picutres later.
she was in Wyoming on Thursday so she made good time.
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I am so happy to hear that she is back! What an amazing journey she has made. Looking forward to pictures when you have time.
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I was at the Weber this afternoon and M iss Edmonton is home. Well she had a transmitter and so it must be her and it looked like her. I am in a hurry but I will post picutres later.
she was in Wyoming on Thursday so she made good time.
Wonderful news, Bev! I'm so glad Miss Edmonton is home. Looking forward to your pics.
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here are a couple of shots of her.
It was pouring rain tonight when we went down so she is actually keeping quite dry on The W. but in my pictures ,yesterday, she was very wet. she must have been traveling in the rain. The next few days will be the pits here
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev39/webermay2-7.jpg) (http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev39/webermay2-6.jpg)
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Still doing great here.
We may be able to put up a box . stay tuned
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Still doing great here.
We may be able to put up a box . stay tuned
Oh that would be great for Miss Edmonton, good luck Bev!
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Still doing great here.
We may be able to put up a box . stay tuned
Sounds promising - fingers crossed that this will happen.
Many thanks for the photos of Miss Edmonton, Bev. It's great to see her home. No wonder she was very wet, with all the ongoing snow/rain/high winds etc. in this area.
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We have a male.
I will post more later. I ma under the weather and only do a bit at a time
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Sunday ,we observed for quite awhile. I have realized over the years that you have to watch for awhile if you want to see anything. and then a stroke of luck ;) ;) Well finally in came a falcon soaring,and then another. We watched to make sure there was no aggression. How wonderful to watch them soar. this is what Peter likes. The waiting ,not so much. We have lots of SudUko books :)
One landed on south side of top of building and then was off. Miss Edmonton landed on one of her letters on west side of Weber. while we were checking things out, she was gone. Yup, she went where we do not want her to go. (the bad building)
she stayed there for 1.5 hours and then the male came soaring back and perched on top ,on north east side of Weber. of course , we forgot the camera.
then he flew off east and Miss Edmonton flew off same direction a few minutes later. We went for a very late supper and on our way home we checked and the male was on top of Weber on northeast side again, and Miss Edmonton was on a different part of forbidden building.
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Last night we went down and got there around 7:45 No one home . We waited quite awhile as I wanted to get a picture of male.
At about 9:30pm we went to check west side of building and around back in case they snuck in and we did not seeanyone But when we came around to other side there was a falcon on the top north east side of WEber, facing in. I thought the male, as Miss Edmonton never perches there and that is where he perched yesterday. no sign of Miss Edmonton. We went to other side again and nothing and when we came back , a falcon was in same spot but facing out this time. I thought Miss Edmonton this time.
Then it flew off and circled building , landed same spot and then called out softly and we think ,went on roof ,because we could not see it. They could have been feeding on the roof :-\ :-\
A very strange evening. did we see one or 2. It was too dark to tell. I hope I still have 2 I will try and check earlier today .I have been under the weather but I really want to make sure everything is fine.
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Peter and I have been spending a lot of time down at Weber the last few days,trying to figure out what is going on.
On Monday night ,after 4 hours we only saw one falcon and there may have been 2. when we go to check other spots ,we miss things.
but we saw nothing till just before dark, so no photos
Tuesday, Gord put up a box on Weber building. So we spent 4 hours down there again
The box has bars on it like Red Deer. Maybe because of all the hawks etc.
WE only saw Miss Edmonton at first, on one of letters on south east side, then she flew off and after searching ,we found her on an aerial on the North west corner of Weber. Somewhere we have never seen her. She stayed there for over an hour and then she went and stooped a pigeon. We do not know if she succeeded. We tried to go and see but.. (We realize things will be different this year with box where it is)
Then she flew back on a letter on North west side (usual letters)
She started really chupping but we could see nothing. It was not alarm chupping.
She flew to other side on North east side of roof and onto roof. We could not see her but heard her. Do not know if she went in box.
All of a sudden another falocn came soaring around. Of course ,I always hold my breath, wondering if male or female. It flew around building and she was chupping,but we could not see her.
Falcon touched down on top of east side (middle) stayed a minute , and then soared out south
Before we left she made an appearance on roof ledge.
Last night,
we went down and she was on north east corner of building and then we saw her go into box. We cannot see well because you cannot see bottom of box (will have to ask Gord what roof is like)
She kept appearing and disappearing from view on roof ledge
A falcon appeared flying not far from WEber and she chupped and flew off. They soared and soared south of us. She stooped a pigeon and at first I thought, oh no, an attack. ::) ::)
She flew to box area and was chupping and he flew to Hotel ledge across street and chupped.
He then flew up to top of roof where she was (somewhere on roof or box???)
He then flew off and Peter followed ,and he was on SW side of building on letters
she popped up on roof ledge again
He then flew around back of building and snuck in NE corner (where box is) and down. do not know if he went in box or not. and we did not see him again before we left. He could have flown off back. She kept pooping up and down on roof ledge
Our pictures are not great. (Will Post later in day)We had to send camera away and they sent it back and now our picutres are blurry??? I was so excited when I got this camera but...it was recalled and..Peter will take it to the I Dent guys at work and see if they can figure it out.
Hopefully this male stays. Look how long it is taking at Willington.
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Hey Bev, why is the forbidden building forbidden..I think you talked about it last year but I can't remember what the problem was.
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the builidng is not user friendly for the falcons and we ere not allowed to put nest box there, so first storm and eggs would get drowned or chicks.
Here is slideshow from last few days there
http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev40/?action=view¤t=35f83a29.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev40/?action=view¤t=35f83a29.pbw)
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Bev, so happy that you and Gord were able to facilitate getting a nest box for Miss Edmonton!
Male - check
Nestbox - check
Let the nesting season begin!! Here is hoping Miss E is a mom this year!!
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the builidng is not user friendly for the falcons and we ere not allowed to put nest box there, so first storm and eggs would get drowned or chicks.
So it's like the situation in our east side nest ledge (even though it has been improved somewhat)-no wonder it's "forbidden"
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Somewhat similar but location much lower and there could be severe interference.
Bu the building box is on is good but I do not know where they will fledge to. will have to ask Gord that.
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Canoodling at Weber tonight :-* :-*
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Canoodling at Weber tonight :-* :-*
Woohoo!! Congrats Auntie Bev!! ;)
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Great news about the nest box, Bev! I hope Miss Edmonton and her mate like it and will be able to take advantage of it.
Looking forward to your updates.
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We have been down a lot ,lately becasue we need to pin point a time when eggs will be laid. I think while I am away, but there were none yesterday when Gord went up(another story) so I will sit there and watch when I come back.
The roof tile came loose and when Peter and I were there on Tuesday night it was flapping up and down and we thought it would blow off. I notified Gord and he was leary to go up while they were trying to nest but he did. A quick minute to use glue and tape and Voila (fixed). The male flew around cacking at him and Miss Edmonton did not move till he got closer and circled above but did not cack. She knows Gord well.
When we were there last night, She ws on her W and he was up top on roof facing nest box. She then flew off and circled and went up and went in nest box. We saw him move to back left and I believe he was bowing.
then he flew off and landed on a letter. He is being very elusive for the camera., but we got a few shots.
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Miss Edmonton male facing nestbox
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male after Miss edmonton went in and he flew down
this is harder ot observe this year but safer for them. that is the whole point.
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I have been doing a few late night stakeouts to see if they are incubating. I will know more in the next few days.
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Have been extensively watching site since last Monday night and Pete and I camped out there on the weekend in the rain and snow. Well we were in our car, but stayed there 4-5 hours on Saturday and 8 hours yesterday. do I have a life?????
On Saturday we thought there was no male again. We were just sick. but yesterday , after being there for 2 hours there was a nest exchange and there was the male. We were thrilled We saw another exchange before we left.
I think on Saturday when we saw her leave quickly , and come right back ,it was him that came back and she may have gone into box. At times on Saturday it was hard to see through the snow. After watching yesterday and seeing which letters they always perch on, and going back over the last couple of weeks we are almost positive that it was him that came back when we thought it was her.
Yesterday she flew away for a bi tand came back with a full crop. Then a half hour later she went to box and male came out. He perched on the last E of center. He later flew east to hunt, we figure, and then came back and perched on T.
We saw female come out and fly around and he went on roof ledge by box and then came back. He went up again for about 10 minutes and then came back. We figured that maybe she was out for just a bit and went back in .(maybe to eat)
Because an hour later out she flew and went to her W and he flew around her and then flew up and went into box. WE waited 20 minutes before leaving and he did not come out So we think we have eggs an dare in full incubation. I will mark that down and then start watching at the end of June for signs of Hatching. Very hard site to monitor. will post picutres and soon as I fix them
It was a very wet and cold weekend but Peter was a trooper and hung in there with me. Every time he went out to take a pciture he got caught in a downpour We were so deflated Saturday night when we thought we had no male again, but last night felt so relieved. :-)
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Thank you both for the report on Miss Edmonton and her new beau! Very happy to hear they are both there and incubating!!
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Have been extensively watching site since last Monday night and Pete and I camped out there on the weekend in the rain and snow. Well we were in our car, but stayed there 4-5 hours on Saturday and 8 hours yesterday. do I have a life?????
What would life be without peregrines? ;) ;D
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Bev, you and Peter are top notch to do all this observing and reporting.
You know the old saying, "The couple that goes birding together stays together!"
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Holy smokes, Bev, you guys are dedicated! I drove by the Weber Building three times on the weekend, going around the back, and I did not see you guys or the falcons, so I think my observation skills need to be refreshed.
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We are parking in a different spot Elaine. Better viewing. I will e-mail when I get a minute.
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On Tuesday night we stayed to witness an exchange at Weber.
all seems it be going well.
I think I am just nuts Elaine. I do to know what else to do. this is a relatively high building but no buildings closeby. You know where it is. With that main road eight there , I am not sure where they fledge to. Will have to talk to Gord so I know what to watch for. but I am getting very tired.
So many sites in Edmonton and I cannot be everywhere . So I try and keep watch on these 2. I know one other is watched but employees. downtown is just not watched, and same for others. I try and make a few stops on way from Sunday breakfast but... just not enough time.
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...So many sites in Edmonton and I cannot be everywhere . So I try and keep watch on these 2. I know one other is watched but employees. downtown is just not watched, and same for others. I try and make a few stops on way from Sunday breakfast but... just not enough time.
bev, of course you can't possible watch all of the sites, all the time. Are there not any volunteers who can help you? ???
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there are not that many people that are interested enough. This is not something I have to do. I jsut do. I just feel bad that I watch these 2 sites so closely and the others are left to chance. but I do have my volunteers getting ready for fledge watch at clinical Science. I will probably be doing WEber by myself. Again, I do not have to but, I feel I should.
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Weber is still doing great. Peter is downloading pictures for me. the other night MIss Edmonton flew out a few times with the Ravens on her heels. she was sing touching and diving to get away. the third time she came back with her supper. Raven chased her right to building.
I will post when peter downloads them. Probably tonight
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Everything is going good. Peter and I go every 2 days to see if there are 2 and watch a nsst exchange
The ravens there always chase them. I think the raven must have young. I thought Peter was taking pictures of that the other day but he was jsut enjoying the show. Me, I was having a thousand heart attacks as they dive bombed her and tried to bring her down. But the male came to her rescue.
This sideshow is from June12. Miss Edmonton was there when we got there. then she flew off and came back with food to eat.
And then we waited for the exchange. we consume a lot of water and licorice while waiting :lol:
I am trying to catch up
Slideshow: http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev44/?action=view¤t=9d696463.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev44/?action=view¤t=9d696463.pbw)
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Thanks bev great pictures :)
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Peter and I are monitoring clinical science and WEber from the ground regularly because of the ravens.
We were down there this afternoon. A merlin or coopers hawk landed on the south east corner of Weber building and was ushered out by the male.
Then a half hour later the male was still sitting on his letter and we were waiting for nest exchange. I then saw ,coming flying in, a female peregrine. I thought ,what is MIss Edmonton doing there. Not......It was an intruder . Dad chased after her and on her first time around building ,Miss Edmonton came out of box and started cacking and she chased after it also. Miss Edmonton then came back and sat on the W , and the male pursued the female and chased it off. Peter saw it fly way north. The male then swooped a bit and then went into box. We are monitoring closely because we should soon have babies here. Hope the intruder got the message
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When do expect a hatch bev? :)
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I could not pinpoint exact day of full incubation becasue I had been away for a few days. So I am thinking any day now.
WE are gong down watching for them bringing food to box.
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Spent 6 hours here today and came home at 10pm
Watching for sign of chicks. I think maybe tomorrow because these 2 change like clockwork and after one exchange and Miss Edmonton went in box, there was no exchange after 5 hours. The male left and came back and was still on letter when I left. 3 major storms passed through while I was there.
I am imaging in my mind and egg with a pip and possibly a crack. ;) ;)
Will go down and spend some time tomorrow also.
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Thanks for the update Bev! I hope today is the day for Miss E to be a mom again! Stay safe and keep us posted!
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on Canada day Miss Edmonton became a mom. Cannot see it or them, but I will post a slideshow later showing the events of the day.
We waited patiently for the signs and When the male came in with food and Miss Edmonton went out to pcik it up and take it in, my eyes just welled up. I so wanted a good season for her.
but be patient with me for a bit, as I am reeling over the loss of Scout at Ohio. I have followed this site for 3 years. I have as many pictures of it as Edmonton. so I am in shock and heart sick.
too much this year,. First Orville , then Swoop and then beautiful Scout. :'( :'( :'(
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I'm happy for Miss Edmonton, bev. :D But join you in your sadness for the loss of Scout in Ohio, bev. :'(
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on Canada day Miss Edmonton became a mom. Cannot see it or them, but I will post a slideshow later showing the events of the day.
We waited patiently for the signs and When the male came in with food and Miss Edmonton went out to pcik it up and take it in, my eyes just welled up. I so wanted a good season for her.
but be patient with me for a bit, as I am reeling over the loss of Scout at Ohio. I have followed this site for 3 years. I have as many pictures of it as Edmonton. so I am in shock and heart sick.
too much this year,. First Orville , then Swoop and then beautiful Scout. :'( :'( :'(
Sorry bev.
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Here is slideshow from July1. It is about 35 pictures long but I wanted to share with you what I saw. It was very windy and we have waited many hours to see this. Miss E has a chick or more July1
Slideshow - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev46/?action=view¤t=a2cdeaf4.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/bev46/?action=view¤t=a2cdeaf4.pbw)
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Thanks for the slide show, bev. :) I've seen our birds try and land with food on a windy day, it's sometimes hard to get the height with extra weight.
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I was ready to climb up there and take the light down. ;D ;D
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Thanks for the slideshow, bev. What a valiant effort to get that food dropped off! 8)
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We checked there today and manged to see another feeding. This time when the male dropped the food off, Miss Edmonton put it in her mouth and then went up . No problems today.
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I was ready to climb up there and take the light down. ;D ;D
Yes, you really do need to do something about that light fixture, bev! ;)
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Congratulations to Miss E and her mate!
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everything appears to be still going good here. We try to get down there every 2nd day just o check. Maybe next week I will see some little heads.I will run down when I get a break from fledge watching at Uni.
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Peter and I ere here 3 hours today so we could see a feed.
All appears well. thy are a quiet couple. I am glad she has figured out how to get up there.
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Gord reported to me that he sees at least 2 chicks here. I will try and check on weekend. Up to my eyeballs at Clinical.
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I am sorry it took so long for me to update here. You know I have been watching. but with fledge watch at Clinical science my posting time was not great.
Unfortunately only one of Miss Edmontons 4 eggs hatched. We have had a bad year in Alberta for hatches but Gord will have all eggs all over tested and see if there is an underlying reason or if the weather contributed.
It has taken me awhile but here are slideshows from the banding july 23. It was very windy up there and so high up, and we had to climb up on a steel ladder :o the chick was pretty calm .
The bander had to stop for a bit as he forgot rivets in his vehicle and so it gave us a chance to photograph Miss Edmonton.
Part 1 - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev48/?action=view¤t=e2627e5a.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev48/?action=view¤t=e2627e5a.pbw)
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part 2 of banding - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev48/?action=view¤t=e36b1d8b.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev48/?action=view¤t=e36b1d8b.pbw)
In one shot ,you can see university in background. The heart building is on far left
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part 3 of banding - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev48/?action=view¤t=9ba0193e.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev48/?action=view¤t=9ba0193e.pbw)
I cannot begin to tell you how I felt . I left a small part of me on the rooftop that day. she was my first falocn I ever watched. As most of you know ,Miss Edmonton is dear to my heart. I am glad tracking device is off but now I will never know where she is , if she does not come back. On the up side, I will not know if something happened to her and I would prefer to think she goes on and on. I do have her band number for ID in the future.
Now I will watch her young one and hope it fledges successfully.
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These are shots from august 4. It is hard to get good shots of this site. the little mister is not lacking for food.
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looking out walking along,so grown up
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male adult chick on right and male adult below
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youngster eating miss Edmonton flying around(showing whee to fly to)
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shows you where Miss Edmonton was. chick is further to right(this is south east part of roof)
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I keep clicking wrong buttons. ::) these are from August 8. the youngster is growing. He will be flying any day now.
While we wee there, both adults were suddenly on the attack. NOt sure if a hawk came too close or another juvenile falcon, but there were 3 birds and they wee right on its tail. It happened so fast. I am impressed with this adult team. Always watching the young one. I pray for success here.
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last few shots from august 8. both adults were above youngster. This was shortly after they went on attack. Peter went down last night after work. As far as we know , no flight yet. Youngster was on back of building. Peter had all 3 in view We had quite the storm last night so I hope all is well. will try and check today
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Oh, Bev.
Thank you for sharing these photos and your heart with us.
You have waited a long time for Miss Edmonton to have a family.
We are all hoping with you for good things for her "Little Mr".
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What a beauty Miss Edmonton is. So good to see her with a chick at last, and hopefully all will go well with the little guy. Have you given him a name?
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Great pictures.....beautiful pair with "little Mr." Wishing for good things for all! ;D
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Beautiful series of Miss E and her family Bev. Thank you for sharing her with us and I hope her little guy fledges safely!
I know not having her transmitter on her will be hard for you but maybe she will come home earlier to you next year ... we will all be hoping for you :-* :-*
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I will have more pictures in the next 2 days but we have a fledge. But there is a twist here. Gord put up another male yesterday so I am not sure which one has fledged. I will have to go back an check my pictures and now really look for markings and bands. I was excited this morning about the fledge and then got a cal from Gord. He was not sure if I was still away or he would have prewarned me. And the male is no other than the the young male form Red Deer that fell in the chimney. I will have more later . so I have one fledged and one to go.and who is who, . I have the bands but hopefully I can tell. As long as 2 do well, that is what matters
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Talk about a soap opera ;D
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This is great!
Radisson had Cassie and a foster her first year, and now Miss Edmonton gets her first chick and a foster.
Good luck!
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That's great news BEv! I was wondering which nest they would put him at! I know Miss E has experience with fosters from when she was at the other Edmonton with Damon right? Or I"m remembering wrong what you said! Good move on Gords part!
Good luck to both fledglings and keep us posted!
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yes, miss Edmonton is used to fosters. Every year she was the university, they gave her extra chicks.
This was the only site they could put the young male. Gord would rather put them at a site ,where they are taught by adult peregrines, than have them released later . Even though he is older, developmentally he is about the same as the male at Weber. He was fattened up and hydrated in Red Deer and then Gord kept him with him for assessment. He is not injured, I am hoping for a success story ,like 3 years ago when we had Hope brought to Clinical ,from Red Deer. It was at same stage of development. :-* :-*
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Great to hear, Bev! Hoping for the very best.
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Yes, great news, bev. Hope the fostering works out! :D
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Will be waiting for your updates on this situation.......good wishes all around ;D
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I can't wait either....all around good news! Thanks for the updates Bev! ;D
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I will have updates and photos in next few days. We have been doing a lot of monitoring here and things have settled down a bit and both kids seem to be doing well.
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I am going to be posting photos in the next few days. sorry so slate but a lot happening here.
the weber male is doing well but comes low to ground when carrying prey. I think becasue mom has him chase after the whole gull and he is yo9ung still, and it is heavy. So we are keeping an eye on that.
Last Thursday, Red deer male came to the ground. I did not post as I was waiting to hear prognosis. I was not there at time. I cannot be there 24 hours. However someone did find him and rehab phoned Gord. On Monday Gord was waiting for the X-ray results. Gord was hoping that if everything was O.K. he would place him with a falconer for flight training and hunting skills. Externally he looked O.K. but they were x-raying his shoulder to be sure.
I was just sick as everything was going well. I felt bad I was not there . At least we would know what happened. It was very smokey here on Thursday and Friday becasue of fires in B.C. When I was there you could hardly see across the street, so I am thinking ,it threw him off, as he was flying well. Poor guy. We are pray8ing that he can go with a falconer. I will let you know as soon as I know.
Pictures coming.
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Hope the little Red Deer male isn't injured badly Bev. Great idea to place him with a falconer so he can learn his survival skills before he has to migrate..poor little guy, he's had a tough summer. :-\
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Please don't blame yourself for not being there, Bev - as you said, you can't possible be there 24/7. It's just amazing how much time you put into making sure the falcons are okay, and everyone appreciates all your work and updates.
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I certainly do agree with sami, on all accounts, bev. :)
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Our young fellow has been flying 3 weeks today. He is doing great but we still get heart attacks when he is taking food fro mom. they are so low during the exchanges. Mr. WEber is flying up a storm and loves to chase after dad. Last night when we we went first time we saw our young man fly off WEber roof and land beside box and then he went off soaring. No sign of adults. Then a storm came up so we went to University.
We went back to Weber just before dark and saw no one,. Now time to investigate. Not knowing where the haunts are yet, we found young Mr. Weber and dad on another building, facing south. They were on the letters. the building is the nest highest in area(where Gord originally wanted to put nest box). He told me dad may roost here to get away from junior. That sure worked .
We went on lower roof of Weber to check out things just before we left and all of a sudden I saw 2 falcons out of the corner of my eye.(it was quite dark) one had food in talons. and I heard a bit of cacking(I had not gotten out of car yet so cacking was faint.) I am assuming young Mr. had food in talons as it was last and the other was ahead. We quickly went around back and saw mom on the W of WEber and we are assuming kid was on a roof eating or on Weber roof. Too dark to see. (Being the worrier, I am, I was hoping the kid got to eating spot O.K., with it being dark and all) We quickly drove over to other building and dad was still there. Good lookout point from there. (they have had quite a few intruders passing through). So we will keep watching here very closely for signs of the young Mr. being independent with hunting. We have seen him trying to stoop.
I am still waiting to hear about the Red Deer youngster. I know Gord is very busy, so I do not bug him. I know Gord so wanted this to work out on Weber for the Red Deer male. He wanted him to be with a family , but I think the smoke got the best of him that day he was found. This is one thing that is so cool for me. Peter and I spent a lot of time with Gord this year and he is just so passionate about the peregrines and after all these years of working with them , his passion for them just shines through. It is so infectious and we have learned so much. At some sites the biologists have gotten complacent , but not here. Heaven help us, when Gord is no longer in this position. We are very lucky.
I have tons of picutres and will share them, when we get my program up to speed again. but I guess I will only post the best of the thousands I have :-)
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...This is one thing that is so cool for me. Peter and I spent a lot of time with Gord this year and he is just so passionate about the peregrines and after all these years of working with them , his passion for them just shines through. It is so infectious and we have learned so much.
At some sites the biologists have gotten complacent , but not here.
Heaven help us, when Gord is no longer in this position. We are very lucky.
Yes, you certainly are very lucky, bev! We here in Winnipeg feel the same way about Tracy. ;D
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Yes, Tracy is also one in a million :-*. Her love for peregrines shows with all her above and beyond things she does at each site and on her forum.
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I am far behind but I am going to post from Sept1-10 and then in a few days I will do picutres from Aug 11 to Sept 1 Have some good ones.
First off: The little guy put at the Weber site is progressing nicely.He has no broken bones, not even a ruffled feather. Gord figures, he hit a wire (it was very smokey that day). He has a possible soft tissue injury in shoulder.Gord is working with him personally. He sent me a picture and said he has a great personality. He will work with him for the rest of the year, and keep me posted .
Here is a pciture taken by Gord
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Thanks for the report Bev, never a dull moment in Edmonton :o
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Hi Carly, I am taking the report out you just saw and put quite a few more in and then put it back. sorry. My computer conked out and I did not want to loose the writeup
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This week has been stressful, but other than that our little guy is doing well. He is a great flier. I will try and take some pictures of area tomorrow, so you can see there are not many high buildings in area, so he lands low on rooftops to eat. That sometimes is a worry because of all the wires, but he has taken my heart. He has a a nice personality. He does knock dad off his perch at times but not as aggressive as I have seen at the Clinical.
We thought we had a take over earlier this week. WE have had so much bad weather and rain that it was hard to tell who was who at times. They were all dark ,from being wet and all puffed up. Scope is on my Christmas list. The only way I was able to tell ,until today, it was our female was because she has the dark band on her right leg instead of her left. I came home last night and looked at pictures I took at banding. Sure enough ,her dark number band, is on right leg. Gord did the same thing with Blue when he rebanded her. I do not know if this was an accident , or so they can tell that they have had to pick them up. Gord had Miss Edmonton at one time. Gord takes the bands off when he tethers them . Usually the dark band is on left leg.
And you will see from my posts that there was some weird behavior. Behaviour , we had not seen at this site before, or ever. Goes to show that just when you think you know what they will do, they do something different. I have a learned that a change in mates, is a change in a lot of patterns.
I hope I do not bore you with my posts but I di not knwo where to begin and end. I have so much. good luck and I hope you enjoy. we did attempt a few videos so please bear with us.
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Around 4-5pm youngster flew off roof and around to perch next to net box. He then went NE soaring . NO sign of adults
8 PM
there was no sign of anyone . WE looked all around . We finally saw male adult on the R of Centre on the Centre 104 building( quite a ways from WEber. ) this is a good place to see who is coming into area. We then went to parkade roof of WEber ,below nest box. All of a sudden out of the corner of my eye I saw 2 falcons flying by. One had food in talons, cacking. I believe this was the youngster ,as the other one was ahead. this was a very late feed.
Went to back of building and saw Miss Edmonton on W facing WEst. Youngster must be on a low roof just beyond. too dark to see. Dad was still on back of Centre 104.
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Sept 4
Miss Edmonton was on W on east side of WEber. Then another falocn came flying in. It flew all around the top of the Weber. It flew out from Weber and landed on roof at back of WEber. Then it came around front and perched on R of Centre on East side. the same side as Miss Edmonton(we believe this was a sub adult) . Miss Edmonton did not move or acknowledge her. Very strange. they both sat there for quite some time. The other falcon was picking at leftovers on the R .
The Male adult came in and landed on the N . H e came in with a bit of food. He even bowed to her. Now how immoral is that. :wink: As soon as the the other falcon started to hop toward male, Miss Edmonton , made her move and flew right at her. Male and female fly around building.
(Of course Peter is on other side with camera, seeing what is happening. )The action is all in front of me. ;D ;D Two falcons come around , flying together and then they fly onto W and bow to each other. Cannot tell anymore ,who is who. A falcon goes into box, not sure who. Then all of a sudden , there is chupping and flying and action on roof top ,that we cannot see(my heart is pounding). They go off south west, wing touching and chupping.
Finally things settle and we believe we have Miss Edmonton on top of Weber and Male on one of letters. We check back of Centre 104 and the youngster is there on one of the letters.
Because we try and have a life ::) we left. (We have had the adults ushering out other falcons continually.) This is late for nesting and it is time for migration. we believe our blue banded female from Clincal science was here her begging for food.(The day before she was rescued form vent fan at another spot.)
Slideshow of story - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=135b480b.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=135b480b.pbw)
Slideshow of subadult flying - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_31.mp4 (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_31.mp4)
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Sept 5
Went back 3 times. Can you tell we are very uneasy .
10 am - Saw adult M on letters of Centre , Miss Edmonton on top of nest box and youngster on 4th ledge down on NE side. then went for Breakfast(we did ;) ;))
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Sept 5
Noon - Only saw male and youngster Male flew off and came back. Youngster seemed content. M on middle of W when we left
slideshow - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=1d40f928.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=1d40f928.pbw)
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Sept 7
Due to a life I sometimes have ;D ;D I could not go again until Sept 7. When I got there Adult was on Stelllite dish facing EAst and adult male was on top ledge on NW corner. this sort of indicates the kid is on a roof somewhere. Silly me did not bring camera and could have had great pictures.
So I went up on parkade roof and saw youngster right across from me on low roof (I think it must have just eaten) . adult male flew over to W on Weber on east side(while I was talking) and youngster started to cack.Then youngster flew off towards Ramada and then flew low over my head and perched on NE ledge (4 above me) I could have had great shots. I sort of hid so as not to spook him.
I will take some pictures tomorrow of building and area so you will know what I am talking about
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Sept 8
This was the night that we thought that maybe we did not have Miss Edmonton. Things were so strange.
6:30-8:30pm - Adult male was on last E of Centre on West side. Miss Edmonton(we were not sure)was on W facing in. We thought something was wrong with her as male started catwalking toward her and then flying off and all around her and flying right in her face and would land almost on same letter. this continued for quite sometime. He was non stop on flying up, and down, and around her . what in the heck is happening here ? Is she O.K.???? We see the youngster on the Ramada facing south
OH!!!! the female is moving and she has prey under her. The male flies at her again and off she flies (someone squeals) with the prey in her talons, male in hot pursuit. they fly around building and off south, across from Weber. The young male joins in the chase .They fly low over buildings in front of us. We loose track of who is who. Now one is on microwave tower across from Weber. ONe is on back of roof just south of Microwasve tower. I think both adults. So hopefully kid is down on roof eating. WE went over by the building
Did I mention it has been wet and cold here. Well once again , it started to rain and both adults flew onto WEber. We ran over to car and drove up to parkade roof of WEber and then we spotted one adult on roof of building we just came from. I t was the male as he flew back over to WEber. He was probably looking for left overs. We found the youngster tucked in on The C of Centre 104 facing south. All accounted ford ad it is pouring.
time to paddle home. I hope they all ate. I think the female was trying to eat before the male started dive bombing her. what a weird night. I have been watching for 5 years and never saw this before. So is this our female???
Slideshow of evening - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=2b039555.pbw (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=2b039555.pbw)
video of male and female. We are green at this so please have patience when you see blank spaces. We will learn how to do this . I am not sure why it buffers. but it gives yo an idea of what was happening - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_17.mp4 (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_17.mp4)
click on picture Peter is trying. We did not know how to edit these - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_06-2.mp4 (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_06-2.mp4)
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Thanks for the great report, bev..........love all the pics and video 8) ;D
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What a treat to view your commentary and pictures with with my morning coffee.
Thanks for all the catch up posting, Bev.
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I am so far behind here, and will not be able to catch up for a few weeks. Peter and I are going away tomorrow for some R and R. but I will give a report of both sites and try and add some photos later if I can. As you know I spent all day last Thursday at the site because Miss Edmonton was missing. She finally turned up at night. but we were not sure it was her. It had been so wet and cold that it was hard to tell.
Sept 9
I watched all day in the cold and our youngster called for food whenever he was around. But he did give me many laughs. He went from rooftop to rooftop looking for leftovers. At one roof he encountered a mob of magpies that tried to best him. they chased him off very low to ground , so I held my breath. :o But what a trooper he circled back and went back to that roof and then he chased the magpies. He tried to stoop them ;D ;D .Then he tried stooping pigeons and gulls all the rest of the day. He sure tried. He flew off west and east at times so I do not know if he got any food. The whole time the male adult just stayed on the Weber. First one side then the other. I t rained off and on all day
At one time the youngster flew off satellite dish he was on and soared out west of Weber. I noticed there was another falcon there .They soared and dipped and then both came in ,one chasing the other. Lots of cacking by youngster
One knocked the male adult off W of building. I could not keep up. Everything happens so fast. Lots of flying by all 3.Could not tell if it was aggression or not. Looked like some and very noisy.I went around to east side and there were 2 up on roof on aerials. I could not tell who was cacking. Smaller one flew off and bigger one stayed for a bit and then quietly soared off around building and then out. I think one was a juvenile from another site.
The male adult on the W flew off after about a half hour.(lots of strange things this year)
Later in afternoon, a falcon (I think adult female) , flew onto big round satellite on Weber roof . Kid was across road on satellite dish and started cacking. then he went to Ramada facing WEst and was cacking.
Male adult flies in and the adult on SAtellite went up to nest box. . then female adult flies and perches on south side of roof. Male flies up to roof ledge by box and kid comes flying in, cacking and knocks him off,and we loose sight of kid. (Peter has joined me now.) So we have 2 adults in sight and have to leave for an hour. When we came back no one in sight.
It was getting dark and finally we saw a falocn on west of Weber and then it flew to n facing east (we think the kid)
It flew off and we spotted it on south side of Centre 104 on the E . It was pouring rain and dark and with no sign of adults we left. Needless to say I was worried. Not knowing if it was our female.( Remember we had a subadult female in on the weekend) With the weather so miserable she was probably holed up somewhere all day.
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Sept 10
4pm - came down to site and adult female was eating up by box. She seemed very hungry. Very big piece of prey. It started to rain and she flew to W facing East, with rest of prey. We know it is Miss Edmonton becasue for some reason (I must ask Gord) her dark number band is on right leg and this one had dark letter band on right leg. Female from other day had it on left leg. Our dark number bands are always on left leg.
4:50pm- youngster came in on ledge on Ne side - male adult came in after rain also this is when it got weird again . Male catwalked down to female and tried to get food(we think) . Then he would fly off all around her and at her. We have more video. Then female flew off west with prey ,with male after her(a squeal like other day). YOungster gave chase also. We saw feamle come back to east side on antennae of roof so we went up to parkade. Male adult was above us on ledge, looking west. and we looked over and there was youngster ,on another roof eating the prey. Yes , he was getting fed still.
We left feeling a bit better
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video of male and female. click on picture(I apologize for the stalls . I guess file too big. you can see adult male fly at female and then come back) I was making sure it was still our male. It was. We could not figure this out and I will have to talk to Gord about it.
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video - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_34-2.mp4 (http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/album%20name/bev49/?action=view¤t=WEBER_34-2.mp4)
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Sept 9
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I will not have time to download other picutres till I get back . but I will summarize now from Sept 10 to last night Sept 15. We have still had falcons flying by. Male adult ushered 2 out the other day. I hope our youngster is hunting now. He is over 3 weeks behind university falcons.
Last night was quite funny.
Youngster flew up to roof and there appeared to be a carcass up there. He seemed to be getting some good bites from it. The feathers kept ending up in his mouth. It was very cold and windy last night and he eventually went up onto nest box and just looked out. NO sign of adults. Youngster eventually flew off. 2 hours after we arrived adult female (miss Edmonton) flew in and up on aerial by nest box. She then flew off and went on aerial on west side of roof. The youngster came flying in cacking and chased her off and the youngster perched on R of Weber facing west.
Low and behold, in comes female adult down back alley with prey in her talons.She is quite low. Youngster flies off R and chases her. Just as the Miss Edmonton drops prey to kid, and kid goes to grab it, the prey flies off :o (Yes, it was still alive) ;D ;D The youngster was some upset and ended up low on a wire in alley west of Weber. We stayed there to make sure he was O./K. (Gord told to us to watch for the wires) . We got a good laugh here. Poor Peter was trying to video it and battery went dead :P The youngster then flew off south. We went around to east side and adult female was on aerial above nest box and youngster was way south on a round satellite dish
Miss Edmonton looked up and started chupping. She flew around Weber and then went up to box. Next thing ,off she went ,and started soaring south. We see another falcon up in sky and it dove down suddenly and flew onto Weber sign facing east. It was finally the adult male making an appearance. I kept watching the sky for mom and noticed we now have 2 falcons up there , mom and another female(by size) They soar fast to the south and then soar fast to the north and we lost sight, in the clouds. Poor mom. Dad I think attracts too many females in his travels.
I had to leave for a few moments ;)and of course when I came back everything is happening and Peter is not sure what. He figures female came back and kid knocked someone off perch and was chased, or another juvenile came in. dad flew off and we do not know who is there. It was dark out and very confusing. One thing for sure. this site has given us heart attacks galore. When we left the kid was still cacking(he lost his supper) . He was on E of center and an adult was on R of WEber. We do not know who. I just hope Miss Edmonton made it back. I will probably not have time to check .
When I get back the youngster will have migrated and the adult male will have migrated ,but Miss Edmonton should still be there (God willing she is O.K.)
I find this a very difficult time of year. When they migrate, you never know if you will ever see them again. I will post some slide shows of a mixture of pictures of Red deer youngster and our youngster
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Thanks for posting all of the updates and photos, bev. :) Enjoy your holidays! :D
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Great updates and photos Bev. love the little movies!
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Well, i am back. got back Sunday night and of course I checked my birds. all youngsters appear to be gone. I had 2 texts form friends while I was away and on Sept 21 there was still one youngster at Clinical science, cacking away. And on Sept 24, Young Mr. Weber was still there. so I do not know when they left . this , as some of you know this is a bittersweet time for me. I get very emotional as we never know who will be back from migration. I like to see them off and bid them well.
I hope young Mr. Weber was hunting by himself before he left. He was 3 weeks younger than the ones at clinical science. but I trust Miss Edmonton . She is a great mom. I am so glad she had a successful year this year. As of Oct 4 both Miss Edmonton and her mate were still there,that is last night. On Sunday night we jsut saw her . Last night when we got there, Miss Edmonton was perched on the middle of the W on the south east side. then we heard her chup and she went up to nest box. I looked around and in cam the male adult. (I was so surprised to still see him there. Typically the males leave a week before the females . They are usually gone by now. But things were late here so we learn something new every day.) Miss Edmonton went into the box and when she came out she sat in front for a bit. then she flew around the back and came and perched on aerial on roof of Weber facing south east. the male then turned on the R of Weber and faced the same direction. They look so relaxed. Nice to see. It has been a action packed , dramatic season I will continue to monitor till they leave
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Thanks for the great pics bev, glad you're still seeing your falcons. :-* :)
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Yes, thanks for the posts re: your sightings as well as your photos, bev. :D Hope you had an enjoyable vacation. :)
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If Junior was late leaving, Mister may have decided to postpone his own departure, finally to get 'quality' time with his Miss Edmonton.
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2011 NESTING SEASON
At lunch time today, I saw what looked like a falcon on the top ledge of the Ramada Inn, which is across the way from the Weber Building. It was impossible to verify because of the heavy traffic in the area.
Bev, if you get a chance to read this, is there any chance we could go out there and check this out sometime soon?
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Hey Hey!
Finally was able to get logged back in etc. Wanted to update you that D is currently working within sight of the Weber building, and well we have no photos, have seen "probable" falcons in the last week for sure.
We 100% saw a pair downtown @ about 100 Ave and 107 St - not sure if these are the "river valley" falcons or the reg. downtown ones; have been checking the next boxes over the river on my commute and have not seen any birds there....
Will have the Weber surveillance stepped up, and keep us posted if you head down and confirm!
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april 20,
Peter was going past on way to airport today and saw a falcon on W at Weber. there were no falcons at all as of Wed april13. Peter and I spent several hours there and there were 9 ravens on the roof top. We have been monitoring up until Friday april15. so she came back after that.
We know it is a female and it had black band on right leg (usually the band is on left leg) . the biologists e-mailed me and it will be scoped tomorrow but we are sure it is my girl. Peter and I will be spending time down there on Friday. This makes her back at least 3 weeks earlier without the transmitter.
I have a few people down there that watch for the falcons also.
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I just got an e-mail from one of my biologist friends who jsut confirmed Miss Edmonton. Yeah!!!!!!1
Now a male. Peter and I will be there tomorrow for a bit.
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I just got an e-mail from one of my biologist friends who jsut confirmed Miss Edmonton. Yeah!!!!!!...
So glad to hear of Miss Edmonton's return, bev! :D
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Wonderful news Bev, you must be so relieved! And she's home early for a change..thank goodness! ;D
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That's good news. Wasn't she a bit late the past couple of years?
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they have had a transmitter on since 2006 and she always came home late. Last year May 1. but they took off transmitter last year when she was nesting and so now she is home early. I always wondered whether the transmitters caused this. Look at Genesse male since his transmitter. He was always home early till they put it on. ??????
I think it is something they are looking at.
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they have had a transmitter on since 2006 and she always came home late. Last year May 1. but they took off transmitter last year when she was nesting and so now she is home early. I always wondered whether the transmitters caused this. Look at Genesse male since his transmitter. He was always home early till they put it on. ??????
I think it is something they are loo
Please delete. somehow 2 turned up the same
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they have had a transmitter on since 2006 and she always came home late. Last year May 1. but they took off transmitter last year when she was nesting and so now she is home early. I always wondered whether the transmitters caused this. Look at Genesse male since his transmitter. He was always home early till they put it on. ??????
Do you think the extra weight of carrying a transmitter makes flying the long distances more arduous and they are perhaps later coming home to nest because they have to stop and rest more? :-\
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Interesting observation.
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I think they are thinking the transmissions throw there natural honing gear off.
As of Sunday we have not spottted a male but that is not saying there is not one there. will go down tomorrow again.
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Peter and I were down at Weber last night and the male is back
so we have Miss Edmonton and unbanded Male. The one last year was unbanded also and he looks the same but of course without bands. He is sitting in same spot also. but the markings are the same.
I will post shots later(Not those kind of shots ;D)
I would say he came back sometime this week. Egg will be earlier this year which makes me happy.
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Yay...all signs pointing to a good nesting year for Miss E and her mate..talons crossed for them :-*
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Was down at the Weber Building about 1:00 p.m. today, and did not see any sign of the falcons. Worse luck. Will try again another day.
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Peter and went down last night and everything looking good. Female in front of nest box and Male below on his letter.
Female flew off much later north east and after a bit male followed her. The male came back and turned in for night , with female right behind him. she went up to her W. So no eggs yet but I bet by weekend.
A raven flew beside female so we think male went out to get them away from her. WE saw this a lot last year. the ravens soon learned to leave them alone ;D
Pictures tonight. I forgot to take them off camera ::)
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sorry about no picutres yet but they are coming.
As of yesterday Miss Edmonton and her Beau are in full incubation. Yeah!!! could be last egg or second last. No way of knowing.
I promise pictures but i have to get caught up with other life ;) and then I will put them up in Pb
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...As of yesterday Miss Edmonton and her Beau are in full incubation. Yeah!!!
That's great news, bev! :D
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Yes, isn't it indeed!
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Yes, isn't it indeed!
Oh my, yes it is.
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I made a slideshow but it shows male carrying prey around by MIss Edmonton and then Miss Edmonton chases him. He is then seen behind her. She perches on south west corner of building. Male continues to fly around with prey and rests on letter and calls out.He then then flies around by Miss Edmonton and drops it on back of building. He then flies off and comes in for canoodle. You can see she is in position earlier. He flies off and then goes up to roof in front of box. After a bit he goes in. He ws in for 2.5 hours before Miss Edmonton relieved him. She ate on back of building. I always like to make sure it is her and she has black band on right leg. The others have black band on left leg.
When we went down on Sunday we saw same thing.
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Miss Edmonton is sitting on 4 eggs right now. I have not made it down there since long weekend but will go tonihgt or tomorrow.
Please read article on Miss Edmonton and Weber. Looks like we get a cam. Gord had e-mailed me and told me but I was not sure if I could share with you. but now it is in article.
I am upset about our falocn downtown going missing so I am keeping close watch on U of A and now I should keep watch at Weber better. I do not have enough of me ;D ;D
http://www.ab-conservation.com/go/default/index.cfm/media/peregrine-cam/watch-the-peregrine-live/
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Glad you're getting a cam bev. I know you are excited, I certainly was when I found out we were getting one.
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Oh I hope E4 is found okay Bev. :-\ Great news on Miss E though and the cam!
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Sure hope your missing falcon will be spotted soon, bev.
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Just to be clear, it is not Miss Edmonton that is missing , it is our falocn from downtown that has owned Edmonton for years. Appears to be a mystery.
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I am upset about our falcon downtown going missing so I am keeping close watch on U of A and now I should keep watch at Weber better.
Gee, I hope they find your missing falcon, bev
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Just to be clear, it is not Miss Edmonton that is missing , it is our falocn from downtown that has owned Edmonton for years. Appears to be a mystery.
I knew it wasn't Miss Edmonton who is missing, bev, because I know she is presently still incubating 4 eggs, but do you know who the downtown falcon was? Did he/she have a name? ??? Also, is Miss Edmonton also known as Transmitter Girl? Did she have a transmitter on her at one time? I thought I read that somewhere, but could be mistaken. :-\ With so many birds to keep track of, it can occasionally get confusing. :P
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MIss Edmonton had a transmitter put on her in 2006 and they just removed it end of last year. she seemed to come back so much later and now this year she was back almost 3 weeks earlier.
But they learned a lot from her.
Our biologists never name our falcons but they called her homeless when she lost the Clinical science site, and then I started calling her Transmitter girl when I would discuss her with them and they obliged me. And then, I named her Miss Edmonton, as she was my first falcon to watch here back in 2006. So they humor me .
The downtown falcon has been a great female . ( no name) She was born along a river bank in Alberta and it would be a shame to loose her. She may not have liked the Bell building because they had to move nest box from Telus last year, because of construction. Gord is checking out every place he can think of.
she may have lost her mate and is out scouting a new one. any number of things.
Still it is a blow.
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Thanks for this info, bev. Much appreciated. :-* I do remember reading somwhere that Miss E was also called "Homeless". So now I know why. :) Is there also another bird in your neck of the woods who recently had a transmitter removed? :-\
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ys, I thought I posted it but I will go and do that if I did not.
Our TR male at Gensse had his removed n Friday. there were also Dummy eggs at the box and so they put the original eggs back. He came back last year and this year and it caused all sorts of drama at the box, failed nest last year and this year it is turning out O.k. HOpefully the other male was not hurt.
some discussion about the transmitters throwing off their honing a bit . Miss Edmonton came back quite a bit earlier this year so we will see if Mr. Genesse does next year. go over an dread at Genesse.
So i am calling them Mr. and Mrs. Genesse
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Thanks, bev. :-* Yes, you had posted it on the Genesee board but I couldn't remember where. :-[ I had not realized that you were talking about 2 different transmitter birds. Sometimes hard to keep it all straight. :-[
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Thanks, bev. :-* Yes, you had posted it on the Genesee board but I couldn't remember where. :-[ I had not realized that you were talking about 2 different transmitter birds. Sometimes hard to keep it all straight. :-[
I bolded what I am replying to.
I thought it was just me having a hard time keeping things straight. Monitoring 4 sites is hard work.
There will be a web cam here this year. they are testing it out this week.
Peter and I were down there on Monday night for 3.5 hours. You have to stay long sometimes to see what you want to see. I was making sure we still had 2 falocns. And we do. things are looking good . did I mention that she is sitting on 4 eggs??/
My time is more limited this year with new doggies and new grandbaby. ::) ::)(love both immensely)
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...My time is more limited this year with new doggies and new grandbaby. ::) ::)(love both immensely)
As it should be, bev. ;) Enjoy them both. :-*
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Downtown female
I jsut received and e-mail from Gord and downtown female E4 has been located. I have just written back for permission to tell you the story and share pictures.
she is exactly where I showed Peter on MOnday night. the building is similar to the building the peregrines roost at in Ottawa , so when i got the e-mail I chuckled to myself. Peregrines are so different ,yet so much alike. Peter and were goint ot go walking around there on the weekend adn may still do that , but i am tickled pink. She has 4 eggs and 2 chicks so far.
he may put them in an article.
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Great news!! Glad she was found and with little ones too!
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I'm so glad that your downtown female has finally been located, bev. :D And with 4 eggs/2 chicks, no less! :-*
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here is a link to article about finding E4 and if I can get permission I will post picutres Gord sent.
http://www.ab-conservation.com/go/default/index.cfm/media/peregrine-cam/missing-peregrine-e4/
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For those of you who never got a good look at Trey - E4 is about as close as I have seen to him ...
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She certainly is very attractive, and very successful. Rockstar material, also like Trey.
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There is a cam on WEber but it is not functional yet.
The eggs should be hatching late next week. Will try and swing by this weekend sometime.
We did spend about 4 hours there last weekend and everything looked fine. Sometimes have to spend hours to see what you need to see.
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There is a cam on WEber but it is not functional yet.
The eggs should be hatching late next week. Will try and swing by this weekend sometime.
We did spend about 4 hours there last weekend and everything looked fine. Sometimes have to spend hours to see what you need to see.
Yes bev, I have stood on the parkade in Brandon quite a few times for long periods of time and have seen no birdies, until you decide to leave and you get in the car and voila a falcon shows up. ::)
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Murphy's law of peregrines!
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live cam up and running
http://www.ab-conservation.com/go/default/index.cfm/media/peregrine-cam/live-web-feed-2/
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What a great view! 8)
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This is wonderful Bev. to see Miss Edmonton on a great webcam!
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...wow, that is a nice camera view!
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Weber Centre
Edmonton, Alberta
webcam link: www.ab-conservation.com/go/default/index.cfm/media/peregrine-cam/watch-the-peregrine-live/weber-centre-peregrine-camera/ (http://www.ab-conservation.com/go/default/index.cfm/media/peregrine-cam/watch-the-peregrine-live/weber-centre-peregrine-camera/)
Resident Pairs & Offspring
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And she is on 5 eggs not 4 so I think that hatch will not be late weekend or early next week now because when Gord went up before may long weekend(may 17 I think0 she was on 4 eggs,
Peter and I saw them in full incubation starting May13 but could have been becasue of cool weather.
Man., Miss Edmonton, what are you doing to me ;D ;D
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The webcam view is absolutely fantastic! :-* So nice to see Miss Edmonton, live. She certainly is a beautiful bird!
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That is certainly up close and personal! What a beautiful pair.
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hope a hatch by Monday
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Miss Edmonton has been shuggling her eggs and showing us the pips in them.
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Wonderful news bev! :)
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good first feed just finished and I will post a show later.
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So are there still only 2 chicks here so far? :-\ I'm still at work and don't seem to be able to get the webcam from here... Great pics and slideshows, BTW. :-*
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two so far. hopefully tomorrow at least one more
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This site has such great news, Bev.
Loved the tender moment in your slide show.
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Well we may just have 2 here although there i s an egg that pipped last nihgt. 3 and 4 may not be viable and 5 may be?????
It is easier for me to do this than post individual pictures. I f you rather I post individual shots let me know.( I really do know how to spell. going too quick always :-[) you can see pipped egg.
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Start and End for the slide shows works for me, Bev.
I also think your occasional comments are very good!
Thanks for all the pictures of the sites you watch.
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hatch 3 for WEber. cam was down and SGB saw wet chick after 2pm so hatch was probably before noon today
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Great news, bev. :D
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the cam was down on weekend but the chicks are doing great. the adults a real synchronized team. Of course I am biased becasue it is Miss Edmonotn.
Gord took out the other 2 eggs this week and he said they were dead early. they will be tested.
Banding should be late next week.
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They sure grow fast! Didn't they just hatch? ;)
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While I was watching at Clinical science, Pete and Dave attended banding here yesterday. I wanted picutres of banding and roof area.
they banded early , as some workers had to go on roof, and Gord wanted to create as little stress as possible ,and he wanted to be there when workers were there, so they knew what they could not do. To go again later this week to band ,would just be too much on birds.
But it was raining and the rain was blowing in nest box and chicks were getting real wet, so Gord took youngsters out while workers were there to keep them warm and dry. No way adults would go to box with workers near by.
So they are banded and Gord will send the info to me. Peter forgot to ask for it. He believes 3 males. I am still saying one is female, as they were young when banded. one was day 16 and the other 2 were day 19.
Pictures will come when we download them.
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Thanks for the updates, bev. :-*
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sorry I have not been back. i will do pictures soon. With fledge watch at Clinical I have notbeen able to get down there. These guys will be ready to fledge by late next week.
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Bev I just want to thank you for all your posts and photos of the Edmonton birds. I don't know how you do it but it is greatly appreciated.
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peter were out at weber on Monday Aug1. We believe th chicks were on the roof as Miss Edmonotn was on an aerial looking down.
We think we saw one peering out but not sure. We will be going down tonight, and have a lto of things in place if one should come to the ground. I cannot be there much but we will do what we can. thye all have our numbers.
the oldest is 43 days old today and the youngest is 40 days old. sounds old but they are behind in development becasue of our severe weather in July.
Hoping for good things here.
Those that know me know how special MIss Edmonton is to me. so I hope her chicks all make it.
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Hoping for successful fledging, Bev!
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...Hoping for good things here. Those that know me know how special MIss Edmonton is to me. so I hope her chicks all make it.
I know how special Miss Edmonton is to you, bev, and talons crossed for successful fledgings of her chicks. :-*
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here are some updates with a few photos and slideshows
August 5
After a long wait ,we finally saw 2 of the kids f ledge for the first time. It was day 44 for the 2 oldest.I never get tired of the thrill of watching them. Of course your heart pounds also. ::) ::) Miss Edmonton flew off the Weber and flew all around showing one of them what to do. She did this several times and then he flapped his wings and became vocal. And I knew he was going to fly. He did exactly as he was shown. It is just so amazing to see the adults follow them.
Miss Edmonton was off like a flash and followed him all the way and was right behind him when he flew to top of roof. then he was off again and did it a few more times. Bravo . Of course, Peter said , "did you get the shot to see the band." Whoops!!! I was just too busy watching. But we did get some shots before he flew . their flying started out at back of building so we then went around to southeast face .
Just then another youngster flew off the opposite direction (east to west and around and onto roof)than the first one but did the exact same thing. With dad flying behind him. He also went one more time. Missed that shot also :sunno: :sunno:
We only ever did see 2 kids at once. Are they the same two or different???
It was getting late so we headed off to university, all 3 dogs in tow. they do enjoy the walks.
Peter is downloading all the picutres from here so you may have them sooner than all the others I have,.
when we got there if you remember ,it took us awhile to find any kids. then we had one on north corner. Miss Edmonton flew around and around above building and swooped down, showing juvenile how to do it. We went around side and saw him flapping and when he started talking , we knew it was going to happen.
Miss Edmonton was there all the way. I did not get him flying but got him coming in. he flew off north face and went arounf the back(west). he flew out a bit south west and then back and up on roof of west face. You can go back and read report. We saw 2 flying that night and we believe they were both first flights , just from what we have seen in the past 6 years.
I put a picutre of building with 2 direction on it.
When we get there we are usually facing east part of building. I call that the front and west , I call the back. south face has a road adjacent to it. Parkade is below east face. we go there but are very careful. If kids are present there , we stay off.
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Saturday august 6
Well did we get lucky today. When we first got there we only saw Miss Edmonton.the we saw a head and then the body of a kid on roof facing west. WE went up to parkdade and hit the jackpot. Miss Edmonton flew off and the youngster followed. she was giving him gliding lessons. Not real high up but she flew and he followed. Similar to the show we got at the University a few days after YB flew. and yes, Peter had the camera so we have pictures. And coincidentally, this was a YB also. Just awesome to watch. Peter loves this part and so do I.
WE jsut kept going around looking for more kids. as we were looking at south side of Weber I saw a youngster land on west face. so we rushed around and there he was , sitting like a old pro on top of roof just above the B of Building. We are not sure if we can read the band. Will see, as pictures are downloading. So now we have DAd sitting on an antennae on south roof, this one on west roof , perched like an adult, and Miss Edmonton on an aerial on north roof , one kid on nest box roof. so I go walking, and yes, I am so excited. I see the 3rd kid peeking out on roof just a ways from nest box on nor ht roof. I have 5 falcons in view . this made my day :-* :-*
3 kids. Now we know 2 are flying and whether this one is or not, we will have to wait. but 3 kids. The youngest kid is 41 days old today.
this slideshow is from Saturday august 6
MIss Edmonotn shows YB how to glide and fly. they went just off west roof and out southwest a bit and back.
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Sunday August 7
We were down for a few hours in the afternoon and were treated to flying displays by 2 kids and 2 adults. What a treat. It was very windy so landings were sloppy. We only got yellow and blue bands but... who knows . they just flew around and off the WEber building while we were there and of course a lot of tagging.. these guys are quiet compared to others we have watched. We did not ever see 3 at once that day.
I will post some of these later
Monday August 8
We went down right after Peters work and I was determined to see 3 kids. Our friends at Bin 104 said they were treated to flying but only saw 2 kids. Now our youngest would be 44 days old and our youngest male at Uni did not fly till day 44 so... WE were treated to flying but again only saw 2 kids at a time but that does not mean 3 were not flying. one could go back to roof and one fly off. One of the ones that flew moved to southwest corner of building so I went to investigate there., as we cannot see back of building from where we were or north side of buidling. Peter drove over to east side , where we usaully start from. ( silly us forgot our cell phones ::) ::)
I just kept walking around back of building and around north side while keeping one kid in view. I spotted one lying down on north eastcorner by nest box. I figured one I had jsut seen fly . then one from west corner started catwalking over to northwest corner and then the other one moved there also. I moved back and took a closer look and saw 3 heads . Yes, there are 3in view. My heart was full. the one in the middle is RB and you can see it is darker that the other 2 I walked quickly to where Peter was and we drove back. we got picutres of all 3. Peter asked if my one kid had flown and when I said no, he said, as he was driving, 2 were flying by east part of roof. he could not stop to take picutres Yes, 3 are flying.
So I am happy. I am psoting the picutres of all 3
with Peter out of town tomorrow, I should be able to work on most picutres from both sites., if I get my chores done
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Great news and great shots Bev! :)
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I'm so glad to hear that all is going well at this nestsite, bev. :D
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As of Sunday Sept4, all were accounted for. we even saw on nearly catch a pigeon.
will go down again tomorrow and the weekend.
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As of Sunday Sept4, all were accounted for...
That's great news, bev! :D
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WEll our our guys migrated successfully from the site as far as we know.
When Peter and I got back on Saturday evening we saw only falocn on west side of WEber. Tuesday, Wed and Thursday evening we still only saw Miss Edmonton. A few others reported seeing 2 falcons so Peter and I will go down shortly and go between U of a and Weber.
It could have been one passing through.
But Gord got word that mid Sept, a rapor bander trapped our young yellow band from Weber, in Iowa city , Iowa. He was a bit underweight so they kept him for a few days and fattened him up and then released him. this excites me to know they are making it out of Canada.
When the young one year old hit Columbus after breeding season this year he looked mighty thin also and now he looks great, so I think this guy will be O.K. He did very well at WEber site and was chasing pigeons after a week . We watched him make his first soaring flight with MIss Edmonotn and his flying after that was superb. the last time I saw him was Sept 6 , so this makes good sense.
Just before we left on holidays Sept 16, we had 2 kids in sight and 2 adults.
I really will try and do a closing report here with photos after Thanksgiving. I was a bit overwhelmed this year.
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2012 NESTING SEASON
And we appear to be three for three at this point - no cam running and no updates on the website about the Weber pair I'm afraid.
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Gord is out of town but money was raised for the cam here last year, by my friends at the Wine store. They had a fund raiser and they love these falcons. So I hope they hop to it when he gets back
Of course I partook of the wine as Peter was out of town. But he made sure he got his share when he got back ;D ;D
No one home yet. She is usually a bit later unless someone else takes over.
After the season so far every where else, I am a bit leery. ::) ::) But will stay optimistic
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Thanks bev, hope the cam is ready when the falcons return. :)
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Still no falcons home . I expect them in a week.
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The falcons are back. I observed the female on the edge of this nestbox when I went down there about 12:30 this afternoon. She called for the male, and sure enough, he took off from his perch at the back of the building and joined her in the boudoir for a canoodle, I presume. He then returned to his perch, and the female returned to the edge of the nestbox. I could not tell if this is the same pair as least year, but they both seemed very comfortable here, so I think it is possible; I expect that Bev and Peter would be able to identify them.
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Great news Elaine 8)
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The falcons are back. I observed the female on the edge of this nestbox when I went down there about 12:30 this afternoon. She called for the male, and sure enough, he took off from his perch at the back of the building and joined her in the boudoir for a canoodle, I presume...
Hip hip Hooray! ;D
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Yay...I hope it's Miss E! :-*
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Peter and I were there for a few hours last night and only saw one falcon. We think it is the male from last year. he was on the west side of Weber on the R . He does sit there occasionally. We will go down agian in next few days. We saw no signs of food on signs , or below.
It was cold and windy but one good thing came out of it, we found a new place to eat. Right across the street.
I sure hope my girl is back. I am looking at her on my wall right now. Gord gave Peter a pciture of her and the male form Clinical for me for Christmas. I have a wall of peregrines.
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Gosh, Bev, no sign of the female? I wish I had had a zoom camera so I could have got a good picture on Monday. I am pretty sure, based on (my limited) past experience, that this was Miss Edmonton. Anyway, I sure hope that whoever she is, she has not disappeared.
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Not to worry Elaine. at this time of year , they scope the are a lot , so we will keep checking
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I dropped in here on my way home from the University tonight, and did not see any falcons. It would have been nice to have a positive ending to the evening, but no such luck. I think Bev and Peter plan on coming down here tomorrow, if they can, so I hope they have better luck.
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Up until tonight we have only had one falcon that we believe is the same male as last year. but tonight we have our female and i believe it is Miss Edmonton. Miss Edmonton has her black band on her right leg and her silver on her left. this falcon has her silver on her left and she is on her letter ;) ;)
but i will have to have Gord do with his scope. I think Peter and I will splurge on a getter lens. I think that may be better than a scope. Not sure.
when we got there the female was at nest box and male on letter on east side. She then flew off and our camera jammed >:( >:(. she flew to west side where we got a few good shots and I really think this is her. you will see her silver band on her left leg ( but will have to positively Id , but I knowThey usually put silver on right but when she was rehabilitated Gord switched bands
(http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/2012%20falcons/th_WEBER_001-1.jpg) (http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/2012%20falcons/th_WEBER_002-1.jpg)
female at box male on east side
Smiles tonight. It has been such a rough season at a lot of sites I was watching, and then cams go up and I did not know what to think Peter is setting up things on new computer so I am working quicker now. but some things are not here yet.
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Glad to hear your birdies are home! :)
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I thought I had posted here. sorry.
they have been canoodling and when we were there yesterday, Miss Edmonotn was on east letter. After about a half hour she went off flying around area and then flew up to box and chupped dandy male came out and she went in. He started preening when he came out.
so they are in incubation. I do not know if first egg or last, as it is cold here dn they are forced to keep eggs warm.
We will try and swing over there again in next few days, and check, Without cam I do not know how many eggs there will be but I will count from yesterday and be prepared to look when chicks come.
As usual I will try and post some picutres
Trying to get caught up in that area
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My life has been a nightmare but I do apologize for not keeping you updated here. will try and change password so I can get going on new computer for this forum so here goes
I have been down at Weber since 6:30am Peter was down there from 3:30pm yesterday till 9pm and then we went back till 11pm .
So this is what is happening. Miss Edmonton laid 5 eggs, but we had some guys up on roof that were not supposed to be there and they were there a long time in cold weather. When Gord drove by and saw this he went up. Not a happy camper. He left and went back to get dummy eggs and pull hers to be incubated. When he came back they had gone back up, so there will be regulations set up. They knew , as I notified them, and no one was to go up , but when you have people at building that do not understand English too well.....
Well , not sure how many are viable, 2 for sure. so we have been monitoring to make sure we always have 2 adults.
When Peter went yesterday he saw no exchange. But he felt it was Miss Edmonton , he saw. My stomach was in knots. When we went back down, the male was on the last E of Centre, east face. Hoping Miss Edmonton was in box. I think the exchange was made on his way home ::) ::)
As Peter described everything to me, I felt he had just missed an exchange before he got there. He had no binocs etc, as he went from work.
So this morning I was up bright and early to go and monitor. Took pooches with me. I had the male in view on aerial but no Miss Edmonton. I had my scope out , trying to make male, Miss Edmonton Not that I want any harm to come to him, Finally just after 10AM a nest exchange was made. :) :)
So all is well. We have to make sure, as Gord will give her a chick or two in a few days.
So I have come to the conclusion, that one day I will not see Miss Edmonton, and that will be a sad day for me,a s it was for Carly, with angel. Those of us who have watching for years, are at a point where we are going to be saying goodbye to a lot of loved falcons, but because of them, we are more knowledgeable and we have falcons to watch. They hold special places in our hearts, but we know they have paved the way for others.
My biggest fear, is , who will monitor these wonderful raptors here, when I can do it no longer. There just is not an interest.
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June 13
Peter and I made a trip down in rain last night as Gord said he would be putting in a chick or 2 . Do not knwo if one or 2 so wanted to witness evidence of feed.
yes, male was on antennae when we got there. Then he flew up to box and sat in front of box. I think Miss Edmonton told him to go an d get supper. And he complied.
He soared around and then off . I just love watchmaking them soar and then dive.
After a bit , in he came with prey in his talons. Of course, we were watching and forgetting to take pictures.
Miss Edmonton came out and retrieved prey and flew off to W with it. Usually she feed kids first but she ate , so we were wondering if no kid or kids. Male flew to aerial and then to front of box and went in eventually.
Miss E then flew around with prey in her beak and landed on another letter. Ate a bit more and then transferred prey to talons and flew around and up to box. Yes, she is going to feed. In she went and out came male. So we have a young one or 2. I have a feeling one
Short slide show. We were far away as we did not want to spook male. He will get used to us again but after all interference we did not want to stress him.
it was windy
http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/2012%20falcons/?action=view¤t=b0b88ea9.pbw
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july 11th
Just got back from the Weber site. Had this all written and hit the wrong button. In any event, I got a call from someone at Weber advising that the female was down on the top level of the Parking lot and was injured. I went to U of A and got the carrying case and went to Weber where I met Gord Court our biologist. We found the bird and it was our young male chick. He looked perfectly healthy, however was precariously perched on the edge of the Parking lot facing one of the busier roads in Edmonton. Gord did not want to spook him so we managed to herd him to the back of the lot near to some lower roofed buildings. As he reached the back, he flew off, quite well I might add, and landed on a telephone pole at the back of Weber. The male adult was watching very closely so had the chick in site. As he was out of immediate danger, Gord advised that he should be OK and he would check on him later, as would Bev and I.
Our first rescue of the season on our first flight of the season. Hope all goes well from here on in. We will keep you posted
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July 11
Well my heart stopped when Peter phoned me to have the box ready for WEber. When it was reported female down I thought territorial fight. but it was the little one as Peter mentioned.
so I ventured down there tonight after Clinical Science. we had already phoned Bin 104 , and asked if they could take a peek. there was a big accident there and we could not get there right away. they said our youngster was then on 3rd ledge up on building. so he flew from telephone post to the ledge. this is a good building becasue they have lots of ledges.
When I got there he had catwalked around to east side and we would prefer he go back to north side , away frown traffic. he complied.. I am constantly amazed by these raptors. The adult male came flying onto to ledge beside youngster and then buzzed him to make him fly. Out he went north and then turned around , with me shouting, up , up, and he made it to the 5th floor. :-* :-* You can tell he is not quite ready yet ,as he was powering out. He is only 38 days old. The adult male flew under him and then beside him all the way to the ledge. A bit later he buzzed him again but the youngster was not going this time.
I stayed 2.5 hours and would liked to have stayed longer but my pooches needed fed and shrubs watered and I have another along day tomorrow.
so left the youngster 5 stories up from top of parkade and the adult male 2 stories above him.
We will check tomorrow and the people at Bin 104 will check also. ;D
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July 12
Peter received a call from Chris at bin 104, and our juvenile there has made back to roof top and was flapping. :ohyes: :ohyes:
another storm rolling in
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July 17
As of yesterday this guy was doing well. chasing after food also.
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July 19
Peter and I went to Weber. Still have one here to watch. He is doing great. Been flying now since July 11 th when he accidentally fledged. I f yo remember Peter and Gord coaxed him to fly out back of parkade and he ended up on telephone pole and with 2 devoted adults , he is doing great. has done a few fly's for food.
Last nihgt we saw the male adult bring in prey and then Miss Edmonton went in nd cleaned it up some. I think she lert some thre for little guy and then flew with rest to her letter W and cleaned it some more and then flew up to satellite dish. Little one looked like he had a bit of leftovers and then catwalked a bit and then disappeared on roof. Probably eating,
I willl post a few shots and then slide show.
slideshow - http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x135/fullbrandt/2012%20falcons/?action=view¤t=461fe557.pbw
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I will post some photos of young falocn Gordon took to our fundraiser here and some of our youngster. He left around August 24th.
but since there does not seem to be an interest in my posting here, I will have to reevaluate
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I will post some photos of young falocn Gordon took to our fundraiser here and some of our youngster. He left around August 24th.
but since there does not seem to be an interest in my posting here, I will have to reevaluate
Yes, bev, I think there is an interest in your posting here on this thread. I always read your posts and I know of others who do too. Just don't always have time to comment. Please keep posting, if & when you have time. I know you are very busy, monitoring so many nestsites. Still, all very interesting to read about. :-*
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Definitely interest in your postings, bev. I seldom respond because of time - barely have enough to read everything, but do read, check out the slide shows and very much like to hear what's going on in your many sites. Please don't feel nobody's paying any attention.
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Yes bev, please continue your postings. I do not comment often, but I always read new posts and I am always interested in what is going on at your sites.
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will do some photos in a bit. Have been away and when we got back Oct 3rd no sign of Miss E and her mate. bin 104 say they had no sightings since Sept 30th but that does not mean they were not there. So I will say migrated sometime between Sept 30th and Oct 3rd. We checked several times after we got home. Early for Miss E to migrate but...
I did see her and mate before I left Sept 19th. I always bid adieu.
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2013 NESTING SEASON
Noticed nothing set up for Weber yet but Miss Edmonton home yesterday about 3pm . do not have numbers o f band but black band on right leg and it is her. blowing snow prevented us from getting more
no male
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male is here and I believe a different one with band. It would not cooperate so I could not read.LOL Only saw silver on right leg
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Wonderful news that Miss Edmonton was spotted on Earth Day and now a male spotted today! :D
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we still can not fully Id male . He is gorgeous adn although we do not know how many eggs they are doing great exchanges and hatch is close to U of A by out calculations of when full incubation was. maybe a bit longer
male is first , all flying ones are male . click on picture and then follow arrow to left to see more
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_001-1_zps37f24e62.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_001-1_zps37f24e62.jpg.html)
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Great photos, bev :)
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Hey Bev,
Have you managed to ID Miss Edmonton's band number? I was checking out your photo gallery and you have a pretty good photo of that band number, there should only be a few bands in the records that come close to looking like the band I saw - that particular sequence was only used for a few years (Trey was one of them) and although I daresay you will have had more of them used out there than here, but still, with those shapes, you only have a few options ...
If this is old news, sorry!
TPC
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I have Id Miss Edmonton, it is just the male we are having trouble with. Gord thinks his first Id was off and we cannot get cooperation from Male LOL
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well sometime this week we should have hatches. when I see University hatch , I will head down to Weber . I think they are a few days behind
I will look for food going in
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we had a hatch on June 21 so we knew at least one chick. I have been monitoring with Peter constantly hereto make sure all is well, with heat and severe storms
Gord had to make thsi site secure as People kept going on roo f in other years when they should not and so it disrupted her egg laying and brooding.
so it was so secure Gord could not get up to see how many chicks.
He finally got up today and he just e-mailed me and Miss E had 5 chicks all hatched out the way they should.
Way to go, but man oh man.
I plan tomorrow to catch up on all sites and then I will post one picture with access to my gallery and you can look through all my pciutres :-*
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Wow! 5 chicks! Miss E is going to have her hands, or should I say wings full! ;) Any news on the ID of the male, bev?
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Wow is right! Miss Edmonton and her mate are going to be very busy keeping up. :)
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Way to go, Miss E! Congratulations!
That will become a very full nest.
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We jsut are not sure about male . I have a suspicion form the ID I am getting that it is young one hatched form Weber. Gord is checking his bands again. I have to find mine from that year. He thinks he mixed two sites up
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I f yo click on picture an d scroll to right there are more
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another series
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click on picture and scroll to Right there are more
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another set of 4
first is one flying object at WEber
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_026_01-1_zpsaae909a6.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_026_01-1_zpsaae909a6.jpg.html)
clikc on picture and you can see a few of male
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We had to do a rescue at the hotel as someone went on roof of "Weber and girls were not ready to fledge, almost but not quite(idiots). So we had to get one of girls , that was real low and would have perished. luckily there were people in room , that knew about falcons , and did not disturb her. They saw our posters and phoned us. Unfortunately, they did not see poster til a day later ,so youngster had been there for over a day.
she was beautiful and unhurt , just not ready. We took her home, per Gords instructions and he picked her up next day an d took her to his place. she should be flying free now at hack site on Pembina
the other female is flying strong and good. a bit over a week now. Miss Edmonton and new male( who we have Id ) , will send to you Tracy, are great parents. they could have fed 6 or more.
Miss Edmonton had 5 chicks. one perished in bad storm we had. It wandered out o f box. There were 2 males and 2 females left. We did not feel this sight could handle 4 youngsters so Gord took two males for hacking and left 2 females.
but the idiots just do not get it. It is a long story but let us just say , Peter rectified it.
here are some picutres in my gallery. I tired to go back and relabel but.. Pb dos not cooperate. We will be looking for a new picture site.
click on picture and then go to left. when you come to pciutres of U of A buildings, just keep going and then more pictures or stop at building picutres and click on second picture below and follow arrows to left Now is it clear as mud ::) ::) ::)
Go to building pictures start here for more photos
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_006-1_zps8a759cfa.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_006-1_zps8a759cfa.jpg.html) (http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_004-1_zpsd5e7a04b.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2013%20petes%20picks/WEBER_004-1_zpsd5e7a04b.jpg.html)
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2014 NESTING SEASON
We have Miss Edmonton back M07 . there was another female here at beginning of season and we were trying to Id her.( she got to site on april5) We could never get her band number. then we went down an noticed something different. But I did not recognize Miss E at first.
I am sure she had to run other female off as there had been copulating between the other female and male. we did not see it but Miss E was back by at least april19
Male= same as last year. D01- 2010 Agrium Redwater Fertilizer plant( along with 3 other siblings)
For some reason the server has not connected cam yet but it is there
So we have been going back an d forth
On Wed may7, no or little incubation
but today May11 we were there for 3 hours an d full incubation - does nto mean clutch is full yet. hopefully cam is up soon
Miss E
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/EVENTS%20OF%202014%20MOSTLY%20BIRDS/WEBER_024-1_zps95ecea1b.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/EVENTS%20OF%202014%20MOSTLY%20BIRDS/WEBER_024-1_zps95ecea1b.jpg.html)
male
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we are hoping to have cam on MOnday. cam is there but having trouble getting server to do their thing. Has been very frudtrating
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we are hoping to have cam on MOnday. cam is there but having trouble getting server to do their thing. Has been very frudtrating
Fingers crossed bev!! :)
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cam went live today and we have 5 eggs
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2262154/events/2908756
missE
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D01 out , Miss E in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22_zT5Iy1Vs
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Wow!! Five eggs!! Happy to see the cam up and running. Thanks for posting the link bev ! ;D
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5 eggs! How exciting! Nice to see them on the webcam. :) Looks like it might have been raining in Edmonton recently.
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WOW!! :o That's so weird!! I had a dream last week about 5 peregrine chicks in one nest. :o
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we have had nothing but rain and are expecting more but all is well. gord went up with Tech man and now there is sound
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First hatch this morning! :)
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Second hatch at 9:15am. :)
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Just watching a feeding here and counted four wee heads. :D Whomever was doing the feeding was standing in the way, of course, so couldn't see if there was a fifth.
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Just watching a feeding here and counted four wee heads. :D Whomever was doing the feeding was standing in the way, of course, so couldn't see if there was a fifth.
Hey Birdlover I was watching also and there is still the one egg to hatch. Saw a feeding earlier where she wasn't blocking the view but the bars they put in to keep the geese out were kind of blocking the view a bit. ::)
(http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy320/Blondechik_2010/Canadian%20Falcons%202014/weberjune172019.jpg) (http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy320/Blondechik_2010/Canadian%20Falcons%202014/weberjune172020.jpg)
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Yes, those bars are certainly in the way. I am just watching the feeding and at times an see four chicks. The feeder looks overwhelmed. "What do I do with all these screaming Me-Mes." LOL
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Watching a shuggle going on and spied the fifth egg. I think it would be eggciting to see a nest with five chicks. ;D
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NOooooooo BirdLover That would be way too many for that nest. That would give Bev nightmares. That would mean that the older ones get feed first and may not have enough food to go around. It happened last year at Bell and Gord came and took it out and hacked it at Pembina.
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Thanks for that soaring. I didn't even think of that scenario. :-\
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The fifth egg hatched last evening sometime around 9 or 10pm. :)
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Breakfast for five. :-* It looked like she fed all five and no one got left out. :)
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The fifth egg hatched last evening sometime around 9 or 10pm. :)
5 chicks! :o Your wish came true, BirdLover. Maybe not such happy news for Bev, Mr. Bev & Gord. ;)
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Breakfast for five. :-* It looked like she fed all five and no one got left out. :)
Great catch RCF - it's hard to get good captures of chicks this age AND be able to tell where one ends and the next begins!!
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Wow! Five!! :o
This will be interesting. Lots of work for these parents!
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Well, the camera was down earlier, but is up and running. The babes are all tucked under Miss Edmonton. It will be a busy season here in Edmonton with all the kids to keep track of , when they fledge. Poor Bev and Peter
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miss E and D01 are doing great job.
man, did not want 5 but she hatched out 5 last year also.
they are like clockwork.
will post more this weekend . 4 sites is work for me to monitor with private life also LOL
yup I do have one
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Miss E hatched all 5 out between 5:45am JUne16- 10:15pm JUne18
incredible
but it is to many for this site. they can feed them . watch miss E feed. She is a pro.
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Just a few minutes ago, the smallest chick was taken out by Gord.
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Just a few minutes ago, the smallest chick was taken out by Gord.
I hope everything is okay with it. Waiting patiently to hear from you if all is well.
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Moonstar. Bev noticed on the weekend that it was getting very little to none of the food. That is when she makes the call to Gord about the nest. But, I don't think there is business on the weekend at the building and had to wait tell today. From what I heard about Gord, is that he is part peregrine falcon in a past life. He would not let one die if it possible.
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it was a stressful weekend watching all feeds. Miss E and D01 are two o f the best falcons you can get, It was not a problem of enough food. there was plenty of that.
But I noticed, after so much rain, that there were a lot of feeds, but most items smaller. this means , that with five chicks , the bigger ones were not getting full enough to fall over. so next feed they still needed more. so little ones were not getting very much.
then watching on Sat, the littlest one got none or maybe one bite. because it was not getting bigger ,because of less feeds, it was not able to get in there. and believe you me, it tried . but bigger siblings were just too tall and would snatch what would be his bite. And then when they were full youngster would get tangled up with them and not be able to get in.
After much thought, because Miss E and D01 had five chicks last year, I phoned Gord. He had been watching also. As we were talking , there was a lot of food to be fed and finally little one got enough to sustain it overnight. So Gord , was in place to retrieve chick this morning,
I watched 2 very early morning feeds and it got none. others were just getting so much bigger.
Gord retrieved chick after doing quick weigh check by hand. it was so quick, you could blink. Gord let me hear chick on phone, and it was loud . He figures it will be fine and will be fed by an adult female. thank you Gord
Others are doing well and food is abundant.
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Thank you for the update on the smallest chick bev.! Glad to hear that he/she has a promising outlook.
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Moonstar. Bev noticed on the weekend that it was getting very little to none of the food. That is when she makes the call to Gord about the nest. But, I don't think there is business on the weekend at the building and had to wait tell today. From what I heard about Gord, is that he is part peregrine falcon in a past life. He would not let one die if it possible.
Thanks soaring west for the update. Sounds like all will be okay.
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Yes, thanks for the information. Interesting turn of events here.
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Glad to hear that Gord came and took the fifth chick out. It will now have a good chance at survival.
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Any news on the smallest chick bev.?
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Update from Weber Centre Peregrine Camera Webpage:
Update: July 23, 2014 - If you can't see the chicks, it may be because they are wandering the rooftop.
Update: July 17, 2014 - Once there were 5. One chick was removed from the nest because it was not getting enough to eat, a second chick was taken to another site and sadly a third one went missing (likely fledged too soon). The good news is that the two that were removed are going to be released along the Pembina River in about a week. The two that are in the box could fledge in approximately 5 days!!
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it has been a strange year this year. Miss Edmonton and Do1 had 5 young. I noticed one was not getting enough, not because there was not enough food, but because the ones in front were just too big. So I phoned Gord and he went up and got it.
then we had 4. One kept leaving the box for the roof top and could not get back. Gord went up twice and put it back( because we were having we were having severe storms at the time .) The last time he went up he could not find it. We are nto sure what happened, but he built baby gates on the sides to keep the others in.
At banding he took one male and hacked it at pembina, and it was doing well.
We were left with 2 females.
When they were old enough to start wandering the roof top , one slipped into stairwell. Gord found her and put her back on roof.( she was in there no more than 1.5 days). I had noticed that only one was coming back to box at night, thus Gord looked. The other female had just started flying. unfortunately, the one gord put back must have slipped off roof, came day, he put her back , onto a low roof at back of building.
We did not let anyone know where she was ,( except Barb) as we had to keep her safe. We were in contact with Gord.
we were still doing watch at U of A but barb watched at Weber and we would go down also.
It was very hot at the time and she became dehydrated. She did eventually make her way up to roof on parkade ( 2 days) . she had been in a place where we could not rescue( long story). when we left her on the Friday night, we were hoping she could get to ledge on Weber building as parkade roof is right below box area.
Peter went there bright and early, before 6am ,on the next morning,( saturday) and could not find here. Then there she was , on ground , facing busy street. He forced her back toward building and rescued her. Poor girl was thin and dry. We kept her overnight and Gord took her home the next day.
Being as it was a long weekend and he could not get access to roof, and he had to put an IV in her etc, it was decided to take her to Pembina , when she recovered. After she was well , she did very well.
We were sad to just have K12 but she did very well. We would have loved to have a sibling there also. She was a pleasure to watch but me, being who I am, felt for Miss Edmonton and D01 and K12.
K12 stooped pigeons and flew like a pro. I fall in love with them all ;D
now some do not agree with hacking , but I have to tell you, Edmonton is becoming an Urban trap. We have to think what is best for the falcons.
K12 was last seen by Peter and I on Sept 1 but she could have been there longer. I could not get down there for a few days. I am confident she has the skills to do well
So Miss Edmonton is still at wEber. I have not seen D01 for 2 days , so he may have left. We will check again tomorrow. Barb has been faithful to this site as well and has been a great help. thank you Barb.
I am posting a few videos I made and a few shots of the girl we rescued.
here are a few pictures of K13, who Peter rescued and one of the 2 girls in box .
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this was on july26 when both girls were in thebox. happy times
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If you click on any of these pictures, not video, you will see a lot of pictures I got at our sites this year, you can left or right.
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a few videos form WEber now that I di d up
My Miss Edmonton has certainly had great success over the years. I always watch her as if it will be my last time. with one of her young ones at one of our sites in Edmonton ( at the misrecordia), I can witness her success . We do not often get to know where they are( the offspring)
so come fly with K12 and me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKLZRYzDl24
this one I got off cam
weber august24
just after 7pm tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bImSP9obaiM
this is from Weber. all of beginning is K12 and then are a few of Miss E flying in middle and then Miss landing on a satellite drum toward end and Do1 on a far off perch. this day on august29 we were treated to a real flying show. Barb saw them also the next day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0HaMxZmaI
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Great video & slide shows, bev. Thanks! :)
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Someone has spotted 2 Canada Geese near the nest box. I hope they don't try to claim the rooftop. :o
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no way , they were ushered out although they were on nest box.
We have two back at Weber now
Peter and I saw them on wed evening. one is banded and one is not.
so miss Edmonton is not here yet. This happened last year also.
she gets back later.
we got partial band of male . We do believe it is same male bu twill have to wait and see
so if she is coming it would be interesting. And no, I do nto want a fight for this spot
few pictures I wont always post as many TPC just this once
here are photos
our goose LOL
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female is on letter an d male up by box. she was hungry and he looked well fed LOL
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well had yet another female that we are trying to get full Id. with high winds , no luck. We have a DO for male and have to get full Id but we are positive same male as last few years.
We have an idea who female is but do not want ot say yet.
last night april14 , we were there for 4 hours and no female. WE were there till 9pm so hopefully all well. WE will take a look tonight if possible
and there there is scenario that MIss E could come back this weekend . there was a fight last year and she won but I want no fights.
But on e goose did get in box. Gord, you said they could not LOL. anyhow our male attacked it twice and it made it back ot box.
Male eventually went way up on roof and goose flew off. I watched where it went and a few hours later it came back with its mate. But our male dove at them both and they landed on a roof to north of WEber. WE kept on eye out and at sunset off they flew into the sunset. I hope they do not return.
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so we are on female number 3 right now. First one was not banded and we are almost positive that 2nd one was white band girl from U of A last year. we got 2 o f letters and numbers and she was gone before we could get the other, but the male was not interested in her, it appeared. She was a yearling so probably moved on
But we confirmed with Gord, on SAt that we had Green girl form 2013 U of A nest. Radisson and Chases daughter
I am so thrilled as she was found 2.5 weeks into fledge she was found on ground by a bridge. appeared dazed.
long story short, when Gord finally got her back, he took her home , bathed her, straightened out her feathers, and got her ready. WE released her late in August on top of jut of Clinical science. It was a long shot that Radisson would accept her. Well she did not bu t Green girl handled herself great . talons locked but Radisson did nto hurt her and she was chased out. We found her at back of campus . later in evening she came back but Radisson kept dive bombing her. my heart was heavy as Green girl kept calling as the young do. MIght have been different if there were siblings there but male was out on Pemibina and she lost her sister to the Maz.
anyhow we thought we saw her once more that season but could not be sure. Gord told me , that she was a Diva and she would be back nesting at one of our sites.
and here she is. for now.
here she is now
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here is her banding adn a few of her day of relase
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and there is MIss E . will she return. should know in next few days. A lot of our birds are late. depended on where they were all storms hit.
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Bev, I am so happy for you that Green Girl from 2013 has returned! She is beautiful, and it is so great when a juvie from a previous year turns up alive and well.
I hope Miss Edmonton will make it back this year. She is a very special falcon.
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well we had egg number one here today
Green girl had her first egg ever at 5:28pm April 30 .
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I am so pleased .
It is bittersweet fo r me. Miss E did not return. Drinking Margaritas in south america. She deserves it :-*
but I held green girl at banding, I cried when they found her on ground , away from U of A but not far. I held her at release, had a heart attack when RAdisson did not accept her, adn cried when we read her band this year. What a wonderful feeling :-*
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Bittersweet indeed, bev. Sad that Miss E did not return but happy to see Green Girl.
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Bittersweet indeed, bev. Sad that Miss E did not return but happy to see Green Girl.
I agree, what a roller coaster! :)
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egg number 2 10:39pm May2
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egg 3 at approx 11:25pm May4( had to calculate through rewind)
little monkey waited till I went to bed LOL very windy
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we have egg 4 . forgot to post . all going well except for cam. can hardly see in box.
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4 eggs... great news, bev! :)
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It would be nice if they repositioned the camera.. soon.
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so we are waiting for first hatch should be today or tomorrow. ( before cam goes south again)
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well everyone knows how important MIss E was to me.
but to have Green girl, who I held at banding and at release nest here, is amazing to me
and now I am pleased to announce her first ever chick
at about 11:20am this morning. JUne8
DO1 has already been in to check
will be back with a shot
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Congratulations on the first arrival! That is very exciting for you.
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Great News bev!! 8)
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so today we will have 3 hatches
hatch one at 11:21am. hatch 2 at 12:26pm and hatch 3 is either already here or just bout. 10:46pm
she was eating something, so I say it is here yup eating shell
here is video friend sent me of one an d two hatch
now we await feed . hopefully before number 4
http://youtu.be/1UW5Jj7z6fg
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WE have 4 :) :) :) :) So, that is Princess granddaughter. So, she is a great grandchick
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WE have 4 :) :) :) :) So, that is Princess granddaughter. So, she is a great grandchick
And with such a distinction she needs a better name than Green-tape-on-leg-band-Girl ;)
Weberina? Radisonette? Bob?
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No, name change. I call her BGG Bev's Green Girl. She held her at banding and released her after GG got stuck in re-hap.( that is a story only Bev and Peter can tell) And they wandered the streets looking , when Radisson would not let her come back after she was released.
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No, name change. I call her BGG Bev's Green Girl. She held her at banding and released her after GG got stuck in re-hap.( that is a story only Bev and Peter can tell) And they wandered the streets looking , when Radisson would not let her come back after she was released.
Fair enough ... so now we need to put together the narrative of her name and life so that the name isn't just her tape colour (efficient and effective as that is) but a reflection of her and her accomplishments!
My big project this winter (besides upgrading the forum) is to finish my who's who of Manitoba birds both here in Manitoba and those that are far away - and both Radisson and GG qualify!
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My big project this winter (besides upgrading the forum) is to finish my who's who of Manitoba birds both here in Manitoba and those that are far away - and both Radisson and GG qualify!
Will this highly anticipated family tree and history be published,TPC?
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WE have 4 :) :) :) :) So, that is Princess granddaughter. So, she is a great grandchick
Congratulations to the 4 hatchlings! :)
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My big project this winter (besides upgrading the forum) is to finish my who's who of Manitoba birds both here in Manitoba and those that are far away - and both Radisson and GG qualify!
Will this highly anticipated family tree and history be published,TPC?
Part of it is already in the Radisson and McKenzie Seeds trees. The coding for expansion (when you click on the crosses) is wickedly intricate so it takes time and when you screw it up, you have to back up and remove the code one line at a time in order to find where it works again and then continue on. As a result, it works better when I can plot out what needs to be added where and then sit down and do it all at once. The bigger the tree (i.e., the more generations) the more generations, the more careful planning and coding is required. Got other work done on the forum done last winter, this winter I get to work on something more fun!!
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I think we can come up with something for Green. let me think opn it
They had to do roof repairs yesterday. It ws controlled with Gord there. He brought incubator and so chicks got topped up , were kept warm etc.
they took the opportunity to fis cam, since they were there anyway.
If it were not for roof repairs, cam would have waited till banding. ''Anyhow, I had consulted with Gord as one just had not eaten. Green is new mom and first feed was by DO1 for 3 before other hatched.
I will come back and explain this all, but it was decided to take th e youngest, for a holiday to get fattened up
I am not the boss LOl. I just tell what I see and Gord checks and makes the call. I think it was a good one.
will be back with more but have to go out. thought I better let you know why there are 3
Gord is veryimpressed with Green girl
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I started out watching Radisson and Mackenzie, until I heard thru the forum that there was a problem in Edmonton(never knew that we had a nest). Then I meet Peter and Bev and the rest is history. I am a transplanted Manitobian and my roots are deeper than the peregrines. I am true to my home and love my new one. I love telling the story of Radisson and where she came from.
Waiting with joy of the winter writings TPC
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this morning was the best feeding yet. not feathers and bones, but the really meal. But D01 did the feeding :)
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D01 stuffed them so good that Green Girl can not get them to eat...lol
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we are doing fine here. Green is learning and DO1 keeps track of what she is doing. It is cute to see.
She has trouble with the bars as she is big
the kids in last few days are going outside. thank goodness Gor d put up baby gates last yer. If hey go to roof too soon , they cannot get back and a good rain storm will drown them. Last year he kept going up and putting one back, as we had a lot of rain. this year we have lots of heat right now.
Banding is on MONday
The folks at BIn 104, right across street think sh e should be named MS. Vinho Verde. they are a wine place that puts on a fund raiser every year for the falcons , for what Gord sees fit. bought cam year before last.
dad leaving after a feed. he is so methoodical
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a few pictures from yesterday( Do1 feeds as Green preens, she eventually comes in and finishes feed)
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our trio
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These little guys look like they're in prison, with those bars! LOL! ;)
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the bars are to keep geese ou t but we had a goose go in this year. wanted to make it home. our peregrines prevailed
how it go t in there is beyond us becasue as we watched from ground it had trouble getting in. thye have been nesting anywhere they can find this year.
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That is absolutely amazing that a goose could get in through those bars! :o
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we banded yesterday at WEber
there are 2 males and a female.
they were so relaxed. well the kids were. Green was not as Docile as MIss Edmonton
the bander brought his hawk that he uses for airport patrol in his truck which I included and to end the party , a flock of pelicans flew over
here is a slideshow set to music it was a hazy day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PJ6GnJ9JA&feature=youtu.be
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A great slideshow, bev! Loved the chick that was face planted. LOL! :D
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It has been quite the year here.
part one
although I have missed the easy way of MIss Edmonton, it has been interesting to watch our Green Girl. In her first year, I am sure she has learned many things.
A young one had to be taken right after it was born. Well , 2 days later. It would not have survived. Green girl , being inexperienced , was only feeding 2 at first and then the third one got fed. The 4th did not stand a chance , so Dr. Court( Gord) was called , and he took it out. It was almost a goner when he got it. But he put a syringe in its throat and gave it fluids from Quail . That kept it going till he got it to our holiday place for peregrines.
It was actually comical when first 2 were born , to see green girl put prey on top of them . Like feed yourselves LOL
Luckily the male (DO1 ) came in and fed them . Then he also came in and touched up feed after green girl fed, to feed 3 .
AS the season progressed , 'Green girl got better and better but she has a lot to learn. It is amazing how much she resembles her mom ,Radisson, from U o f A.
Blue male and yellow male and black girl , were self feeding 2 weeks before other nests. It was either meant to be that way, or once again inexperience of Green girl.( Maybe we should call her MIss Green ). But they were always topped up by Do1 and Green girl.
And the boys were dragging in duck.
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this is video a friend sent me of feeding of duck. It is long but worth watching and you hear the kids also
http://youtu.be/Mwb332RdZgM
But to have 3 flying here was not meant to be. We had a bad series of storms move in and we saw Blue drenched , and then did not see him. I contacted Gord, as i could not get down there, as I was monitoring one of chicks from U of A , that ended up in a spruce tree in the pouring rain. :o
Blue boy was found on ground , drenched, so Gord took him and eventually hacked him out at Pembina.
Yellow fledged around July 18th or 19th. Not quite sure but Peter found him on a ledge , at Weber.( 5 am in morning ) He felt he was O.k. and sure enough a few hours later he was back at nest box, eating. ( WE were trying to keep an eye on WEber , in between monitoring U of A .
I had a person , that went down there quite often for us , and i went down before and after my shifts. I also had a friend who watched the cams from home and kept us updated. A few days after Yellow fledged, we had another bad storm, so Peter went down early morning again. He saw , black girl, on an air conditioning unit on upper parkade at WEber.
He thought he should rescue but before he could, she flew. She had nice height but was probably wet. Peter said she flew around WEber and if she had landed on ledge or Ramada , she would have been O.k. but she went south , and he lost track.
He looked all over for her and so I went down and looked also. once again made a call. She was found not far from where we were looking, on a piece of construction equipment, by a worker. He phoned Fish and wildlife and they rescued her and took her to Gord. So she went to Pembina also. She could have been just as easily run over as it was right on one of our busiest roads Calgary Trail .
By the way both were reported to be doing very well, on Pembina
So now we just have yellow band male left at Weber. Would I have liked to see the others there , of course. But honestly, they were better off , at this point , at Pembina. It is a paradise there.
Yellow band was well fed and he flew so well. He loved to sit on the roof of the box, and he tormented the adutls LOl
here is a video I did on season at WEber . but then go to part 2. It gets very interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1mCvRt7dC0
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Part 2
But on August 9th , he was spotted at our U of A site. He was playing with our 2 males there . WE went down to Weber on the 10th and waited to see if he came in . He did, after 6pm. He was fed and only stayed for about 40 minutes and off north east he went.
slideshow of him on august10 last day we saw him there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ibgA0_EhE
We never saw him at weber again, but he could still be going there. We cannot be there 24 hours a day. WE do not see him on cam either. We do know that a juvenile was heard there , on the evening of Aug22, on cam . I can only assume it was him and I do not know if adults accepted him or not. I had our falcon wind up at my home so could not go down.
WE see him every day at U of A and he is well fed and has been accepted there by RAdisson an d Chase and the kids. We have seen him turn in at night there also.
here is yellow at home in box at U of A
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2015%20birds%20etc/edmonton%20august%2022-2_zpsnh6zc20b.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2015%20birds%20etc/edmonton%20august%2022-2_zpsnh6zc20b.jpg.html)
here is Yellow with radisson . watch closely and you can see him flying behind Radisson. This really warmed my heart as RAdisson has always been a tough love mom. and for her to accept Yellow band male from Weber was phenomenal. she did not accept Green girl back 2 years ago after she was in rehab. Go figure He looks so so much adult like as he flies and sits proudly on to p of building and aerials. You can tell he touched my heart.
I put music to all my slideshows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5eaVmCBSHU
I did not see him last night but lat time I saw him was on Tues sept1, and he was seen Sept 3, and Sept 4.
some of his pictures are in U of A but I will post a few more here in a few days as soon as I get them finished.
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So do I have a life. yes I do . that is why it took me so long to post here. I do love my falcons and we try to make sure, along with many dedicated volunteers, to keep them safe. but there are times , we just cannot.
That is why I love the pembina. We go out there every year and the falconer takes us around and we watch all the juveniles flying and honing their skills It is a true paradise for them . Are there hazards there. Of course. But they are from nature, not man. There are not buildings or windows to it. They come to ground and have the time to work their up via a tree etc. One crashed landed in a tree and just brushed it off and it was away. Truly amazing to watch.
Will try and post some photos soon of pembina . I have to resize etc.
And I will post a few more of yellow band and of green girl and DO1. they did a fine job this year. A true mystery as to why Yellow went to U of A.
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2016 season
WE have positively ID green girl M/26 and we are sure it is D01 , just have to get band
will post pictures here later
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Peter was able to Positively ID DO1 yesterday with scope
So both back
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2 videos of pictures taken from ground
this one was april4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fOZZTYAKo[/youtube]
this one was april9-april17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8kf5ooUNjQ&feature=youtu.be
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Thanks for the slideshows Bev. 8) The falcons sure are keeping you busy! :)
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cam finally went up an just in time. we knew she was very close to eggs by watching form ground. she was very lazy
So Egg 1 at 8:53 pm april19
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20april19-2_zpss8y9qjnw.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20april19-2_zpss8y9qjnw.jpg.html)
short video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV4zjkqxPDY[/youtube]
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Peter was able to Positively ID DO1 yesterday with scope
So both back
Thank you Peter and Bev.
I'm happy to see D01 and green girl nesting again. :D
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2 videos of pictures taken from ground
this one was april4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8fOZZTYAKo[/youtube]
this one was april9-april17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8kf5ooUNjQ&feature=youtu.be
These slideshows are helpful to let us see whatever is near the nest. For instance - I never knew there was a cement ledge right in front of this nest box.
Thanks for sharing Bev.
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between 1 :22am and 1:35 am april22
will be back with a picture
not in full incubation but taking turns when needed
here is a video of Green bringing food to box :-*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxs4m5O2ddY
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egg number 3
april 24 between 5:04am and 5:09 am
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april26 - egg 4
WE checked on them yesterday and everything appears ot be going well. good nest exchanges.
Green seems to have matured and we will see when eggs hatch
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20april29-1_zpsn3uivosg.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20april29-1_zpsn3uivosg.jpg.html)
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all iws well here. we did go down and saw Green girl on back .
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Princess's granddaughter is doing well at the Weber with 4 eggs.
Green Girl is so beautiful to watch and DO1 is a great partner for her.
Just so we have information in the right threads (and where we need it ;)) ... TPC
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Princess's granddaughter is doing well at the Weber with 4 eggs.
Green Girl is so beautiful to watch and DO1 is a great partner for her.
Very good news to hear - they're a great pair. :D
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what a difference a year makes.
she is doing so well. see how she does feeding this year. DO1 has borught in a few food gifts already LOl pracitisng , I guess
going well at WEber. male has brought in food a few times . I guess practicing for when chicks arrive
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may11-1_zpsgwi4sffq.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may11-1_zpsgwi4sffq.jpg.html) (http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may11-2_zpsipb6mdvf.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may11-2_zpsipb6mdvf.jpg.html)
and then on another occasion he cannot make up his mind. I think this was for him
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may11-3_zpsiszxkk00.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may11-3_zpsiszxkk00.jpg.html)
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Glad they are doing well, Bev!
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hatch 1 at 6:15 this morning may29
time was 6:15 this morning, I may have a video later but getting ready for church. I think number 2 will not be far off
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-4_zps2uf67wr1.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-4_zps2uf67wr1.jpg.html)
an hour later
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-3_zpsclgmqmva.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-3_zpsclgmqmva.jpg.html)
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-1_zpsusebcesi.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-1_zpsusebcesi.jpg.html)
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-2_zpsmu9dlt2g.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-2_zpsmu9dlt2g.jpg.html)
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hatch 2 is not far behind. DO1 has been anxiously waitng
from yesterday
male went in and Green did not want to leave
male on left( DO1)
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-2_zpshnqs9oyn.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-2_zpshnqs9oyn.jpg.html)
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/WEber%20may28-3_zpsqwvquelz.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/WEber%20may28-3_zpsqwvquelz.jpg.html)
she finally leaves
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-4_zpsps8knl75.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-4_zpsps8knl75.jpg.html)
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this morning he made a visit and went in box at 6:33am
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-5_zpsaxljgcu0.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-5_zpsaxljgcu0.jpg.html)
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Wonderful! I was watching off and on this morning. :)
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so here are hatches today.
1st - 6:15am
2nd-- between 9adn 10:30am ( sh e never let us see till shell was tossed out and chick was quite fluffy already)
3rd- 1:18pm
adn there is a hole in egg4
last year all 4 hatched within 20 hours
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here are some videos from today
first hatch
courtesy of my friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVVfiz89KWg
first feed for 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKewzF0a3w[
hatch 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-HUMFLBvA
feed for 3after green leaves, DO1 comes in and picks u pa scrap and feeds. He loves the kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-E2IYfKGM
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just a few picutres
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-5_zpsxz74ca0n.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-5_zpsxz74ca0n.jpg.html) (http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-10_zps7bngbs1m.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-10_zps7bngbs1m.jpg.html)
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-9_zpsnupk02zd.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2016%20birds%20etc/weber%20may29-9_zpsnupk02zd.jpg.html)
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Thanks for the great pics, Bev!!
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if they can keep the cam up, we can monitor better. With 4 chicks we like to make sure all are fed. For the ost part all going well. Green has become just like her mom Radisson.
D01 is the best. He had come in after green with prey and topped up , or just comes and does a feed. he is sometimes intercepted by Green
june3
DO1 thought if he came in with prey, he would feed NOt. :egglaugh": :egglaugh":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wtEDhdWnaQ
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Sign on the entry door with a pic of a falcon "saying we are learning to stretch our wings, should you find a chick in distress call...."
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Was at the Weber Centre yesterday, the top parkade surface is being refurbished, it's about 6 floors up, and a short break, I could hear one of the "birdies" letting the workers know they weren't happy, by kacking away at them. Surprised they haven't been "dive bombed" yet.
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2017 NESTING SEASON
here is one video of WEber from last year. I am so sorry I did nto update. as I said in another thread , my family had some setbacks last year and so I did not get recorded here what I had hoped. Enjoy now.
remember that Green girl is Radissons Daughter and princesses granddaughter. Good genes here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0l-LmUPBFA
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we have a female back and we have to get bands yet( 75 percent sure Green girl)
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we started off season with Green girl adn D01 /. They had 4 eggs.
weber may6
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that on Tuesday , may 2, D01 lost possession of his site after a lengthy challenge. there is no indication that he got hurt, just that he has been displaced. We did a lengthy check of area .
you probably noticed fewer posts in my Edmonton sites. This is because Peter and I were monitoring many long hours from the ground and the cam. My friend , Emyrauld, was there at the cam, when we were on the ground.
D01 is a great tiercel and had a strong bond with Green girl. I hate to see this broken .
So I have had my time to process, and now we must move on. Every once in a while you find a special falcon. D01 was that for me.,as was MIss Edmonton. I remember when Green first came on the scene and had her first brood. D01 brought her in a prey and she dropped it on a chick and said , "well now feed yourselves "LOL. D01 patiently showed her the ropes . some say it is survival of the fittest, but not at all times. . I am hoping to see D01 again.[/b]
the new male is a 2015 hatch from U of A . This does not make it any easier for me, even if I watched him from an egg.
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we have 4 chicks here . B72 is proving to be a really good young male . He incubated the eggs, that were not his and hunted an d is bringing in food regularly for th e young ones. sometimes he can be a brat like now, he should be with kids. ::)
Green girl hatched out all 4 within 22 hours. She is like her mom, RAdisson, and grandma, Princess
So B72 is a 2015 hatch from U of a [/b]
green girl in and B72 out
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2017%20birds%20etc/weber%20amy30-2-2017_zps2dyp72zi.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2017%20birds%20etc/weber%20amy30-2-2017_zps2dyp72zi.jpg.html)
look content
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2017%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-8-2017_zpsn85yc27z.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2017%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-8-2017_zpsn85yc27z.jpg.html)
male with kids before a feed
(http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag145/peterfull/2017%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-6-2017_zpsxkjibo9t.jpg) (http://s1303.photobucket.com/user/peterfull/media/2017%20birds%20etc/weber%20may28-6-2017_zpsxkjibo9t.jpg.html)
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Radisson's Green Girl who has nested at Weber has 3 girls and 1 boy at banding yesterday.
Bev will give more details when she has a moment .
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I'm posting information initially shared by Newchick on another board ...
And here's the latest specs from AB site.
http://www.ab-conservation.com/wildlife-cameras/peregrine/weber-centre-peregrine-camera/ (http://www.ab-conservation.com/wildlife-cameras/peregrine/weber-centre-peregrine-camera/)
The only one I have an inkling of an idea as to where the nest is at the Weber center.
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2018 NESTING SEASON
april13 2018
our green girl returned.
we could see the M just have to get the rest.
Peter and I watched her last night.
this video is compliments of Emyrauld
https://youtu.be/qcvpS40ETKM
I am so sorry about last season. for some reason I thought I had posted everything here, but it was a rough year for us personally and so....
but after the initial turnover of males w e had a successful year. 1 male an d 1 female were taken to Pembina as we rescued them and 2 huge females, fledged successfully to migration. They drove us absolutely nuts, as they were so huge and flew all overan landed on everything. But they were also a hoot to watch. our two at Pembina did great .
so now another season starts and we wait to see who our male will be
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we may have male back . not quite sure. one came and did not t=stay long
green girl
(https://s20.postimg.cc/m90gl0ebh/weber_april15-1-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.cc/)
forgot to say we have seen an M and a 6 so we w ill get whole band yet
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I have been away but we have Id Green girl again and we have same male , that took over last year.
Female ( M26) and male ( B over 72)
both hail from U of A . green girl, born to radisson and chase 2013); B over 72( born at U of A to radisson and chase 2015)
we are close to eggs here as she has spent the night. we will see
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april30,
so far so good,
close to eggs
green spent night
(https://s20.postimg.cc/giiljn7fx/weber_april29-5-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
male
(https://s20.postimg.cc/dobbbyev1/weber_april30-3-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Earlier today:
(https://picload.org/image/dodgragi/weber-apr-30-4a.jpg)
A little while ago, the first egg:
(https://picload.org/image/dodgragw/weber-apr-30-6a.jpg)
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A few minutes ago:
(https://picload.org/image/dodgrirl/weberapr307a.jpg) (https://picload.org/image/dodgriri/weberapr3010a.jpg)
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thanks allison. was just coming to post
here is video.
was at 3:30pm april30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss0UFpG9Bbg&t=6s
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we have egg2 here
at about 5:4opm
first two eggs will be B72, however as of about 7:30 pm april30 we have a new unbanded male
(https://s20.postimg.cc/5t276ywl9/weber_may2-1-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
this i s one of reasons were were down there again. Emmy was at cams while we were there and texted us. While we were there , another male falcon came in and flew right up to th e W that new male was on. no altercation, just chased out.
this new male brought a food gift to Green girl just before we got there. he is quite the flier, and very interested in box and eggs. we saw a canoodle while we were there . will post a few shots later
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Sorry to hear about the change to a new male, Bev. I hope both males are uninjured.
I was watching Green Girl as she laid her new egg.
(https://picload.org/image/dodaccca/weber-may-2-15a.jpg) (https://picload.org/image/dodacccl/weber-may-2-16a.jpg)
(https://picload.org/image/dodacccr/weber-may-2-14a.jpg) (https://picload.org/image/dodacclw/weber-may-2-12a.jpg)
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Green Girl laid her third egg today some time around 5:35 - 5:45 p.m., and it's a beautiful egg. After laying the egg, she moved it in between her feet.
(https://picload.org/image/dodcdaaa/weber-may-4-13a.jpg) (https://picload.org/image/dodcdaal/weber-may-4-17a.jpg)
(https://picload.org/image/dodcdaai/weber-may-4-20a.jpg) (https://picload.org/image/dodcdaaw/weber-may-4-21a.jpg)
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Earlier today, before the third egg was laid, I believe this was the new unbanded male guarding the eggs. Bev, do you know if there has been any sign of B/72?
(https://picload.org/image/dodcdalw/weber-may-4-3a.jpg) (https://picload.org/image/dodcdacr/weber-may-4-5a.jpg)
(https://picload.org/image/dodcdaca/weber-may-4-6a.jpg) (https://picload.org/image/dodcdacl/weber-may-4-7a.jpg)
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thanks Allison.
we have scoured that area, and are really baffled and we have been monitoring closely. I ma saddened but hopefully he is O.k. and may turn up somewhere else.
but this male is bringing Green prey , we have been down and watched them canoodle. this third egg will be his. He is attentive. now we will see if he will incubate. Dr. Court says he looks young. so hopefully at least 2 .
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may 6th
egg 4 at 10:30pm may6
(https://s20.postimg.cc/jr9mxxikt/weber_may6-1-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
so 2 will be B72 and 2 will be new male.
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we have 4 hatches here. 2 will be B72's and 2 will be new male
(https://s20.postimg.cc/565rz1565/weber_june11-1-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
male
(https://s20.postimg.cc/krn3j0rf1/weber_june11-2-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://s20.postimg.cc/gv9rn0qzx/weber_june11-4-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://s20.postimg.cc/ahkojrttp/weber_june11-5-2018.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Holy cats, look at the size of that meal - how the heck did they get an ostrich through the bars on that nestbox!!!! :o
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I watched them. they go in sideways. the new male has learned not to go through the last bar, he will not fit LOL
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How nice to see these four chicks looking so well. :)
Hopefully they will all stay safe as they seem to enjoy venturing in and out of their nestbox, but I cannot see the actual size of that outside area.
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Not sure where to post this. I was watching the Weber center chicklets, and they seemed intent on following something passing by this evening. 3 of the 4 eyes were following something passing by. It was cute.
The Alberta chicks look good.