Bell Tower - 2018 / B32 & Squeak

[bev.]

august 2

sorry I have not been here, but very busy monitoring g 6 istes

I iwill post pciutres in a few frames later today but we have success. Gor d banded 2 chicks and left us a male. Our male fledged on day 41(july22  and by july25, he was back up high and at ledge, eating. He has been to ledge every day since. We are so thrilled

I have some nice pciutres and videos

be back later

[bev.]

sorry, it has been a bit but all is well here. our 2 are growing. I think one male and one female. we have great adults here and the nesting area is good but the fledge is trecherous.  very few do a full fledge here, meaning , they have to be rescued.  and it is too dangerous for them to be put back. I feel for adults here. maybe our one male can have successful fledge, that is if it is a male

wish we could get them to nest a few blocks north and east. they are blocked in here, with most buildings higher and close

june19

june20

june21

june23

june24. mom say s you stay put

june25- dad with the kids

june27- brekkie


will post to other sites tonight

[bev.]

we have 2 chicks so far here. do not know if 3rd will hatch but it di dhave a big dimple

one chick






big crop


whole family

[bev.]

may 28

we lost an egg at Bell on may28

at about 3:25pm , the female started eating around the 4 eggs. There was no indication before that, that there was something wrong. At first I thought she was eating prey but alas,no, now  only 3 eggs.

it was confusing , as although you could see her eating , you would see 4 eggs . it has been extremely hot for the  last week and a half. our birds have really suffered, and struggled to  keep eggs cool, . I think it was not viable and exploded. WE saw her  eating what appeared to be some of that duck in corner with it , as it appeared stuck on egg.

here is video of event

https://youtu.be/QBMn2IAwnis

then male brings food to ledge and female leaves. male comes in and eats around egg and carried out shell. at end of video you can see to p half of shell gone and it is empty inside. this is why we kept seeing
4 eggs

video with male carrying out shell

https://youtu.be/dhKXBIOxx48

male carrying egg. video shows egg better




3 eggs may29

[bev.]

egg 4

between 1:01 and 1:03pm May11

[bev.]

egg 3  around 7:45am May9

[bev.]

egg 2

between 4:14 and 4:29am May7
edit for photo

[bev.]

here is egg

was too tired earleir

[bev.]

may5

was on my way to bed when I noticed she was ready to lay egg.

12:53am may5th

first egg at Bell

vidoe of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK3NlHKeUwk

[bev.]

this is the male

male in box




will try an d look formy better picture

[bev.]

those are both the female Allison

hoping for eggs today or tomorrow. lots of canoodling
spent th e night


and

[Alison]

I saw a bird at the nest today on two different occasions. I have no idea who this is.

First visit:

 

Later visit:

 

[bev.]

may2
we have had lots of canoodling and  prey being brought in. I am hoping for eggs tomorrow

[bev.]

all the patterns point to same pair.

so will wait till banding. things have settled down . I think they are doing windows and wish they would wait till after eggs laid, but we get little cooperation here.

[bev.]

april28

i have been away but I have had someone monitoring cams. there was a fight in box with females april20. nasty.

but now after all is said and done. we do believe we still have M49 and Male B32. Of course we will never know for sure till we get band reads.  they are doing same things as last year.

we were wrong about E4 last year, but having said that, I still think we had her at beginning of  of season , cams went off for 3 weeks and then we just assumed it was still her. ( we know a lot can happen in 3 weeks)They walk so much alike.
anyhow.

things appear to have settled down