West Winnipeg - 2010 / Beau & Jules

[allikat]

Perfect!  Good to know that these two have finally got it! 

[The Peregrine Chick]

It has suddenly gone very dark in West Winnipeg ... and no, the camera is still working just that the light is going very fast ... and Jules (this time) is trying to get the kids corralled in case she needs to plunk down on them.  They are tucked up in the back corner under the roof so more protection this time than for all the earlier storms!

[The Peregrine Chick]

1800 hrs (local) - the chicks have been tucked up in a pile at the back of the box with Jules or Beau sitting on the ledge beside them.  A couple of minutes ago the chicks all sat up and reassembled their pile and the adult (I can only see their back at the moment) popped down into the between them and the outside.    Now the bird is channelling Trey and cleaning up the nestbox - I think perhaps it is Beau now that I can see the bird next to the chicks ... anyway back to the story, adult jumped down into the box at about the time that I heard the first roll of thunder in my neighbourhood ....

[The Peregrine Chick]

I tend to count from the oldest chick except when it comes to banding dates when I use the age of the youngest chick because we really need to make sure the chicks are old enough to be banded.

TPC, what is the earliest day for banding?  I'm guessing you need to get to full growth of the leg, so the bands won't become tight?

Banding is between day 21 and day 25 ideally.  We have a tentative date for banding, will have it confirmed on Monday as that is when all the players will be in one place.  Will let y'all know when its confirmed.

[allikat]

Since we don't have a webcam on this pair, hope you don't mind if I move you back where we can find it Allikat  

Soon enough we will have a new board for July 

Nope, I don't mind!!!!!!   

[bcbird]

I tend to count from the oldest chick except when it comes to banding dates when I use the age of the youngest chick because we really need to make sure the chicks are old enough to be banded.

TPC, what is the earliest day for banding?  I'm guessing you need to get to full growth of the leg, so the bands won't become tight?

[The Peregrine Chick]

Since we don't have a webcam on this pair, hope you don't mind if I move you back where we can find it Allikat  

Soon enough we will have a new board for July 

[allikat]

Thank you Tracy!!!   

Day Eight for the West Winnipeg Pair!  WOO HOO!   

[The Peregrine Chick]

I tend to count from the oldest chick except when it comes to banding dates when I use the age of the youngest chick because we really need to make sure the chicks are old enough to be banded.

So, the West Winnipeg chicks are on Day Eight - oldest two chicks are eight days, third is seven days old.  

They can thermoregulate at 10+ days so the rain will not be as big a danger.  At 10 days they can move on their own, tend to move into the shade/under cover when the weather changes - and the West Winnipeg site has a roof they can get under to avoid both rain, sun and winds from most directions.

[Pam]

Thanks for the updates, Tracy!

[Jo]

Two hatched June 16th and the third on June 17th - I'm not sure if we count from the day of the first or the day of the last.

Thank you for the updates Tracey - it sounds like Jules & Beau have really caught on to this parenting business.

[allikat]

What day is it for Beau & Jules and their cute widdle chicks?

We have the days for Princess and Ivy....just thought we could do it for the WW pair as well.

I'm just sayin'   

[bev.]

thanks for the reporting Tracy

[The Peregrine Chick]

1149 hrs (local) - chicks are fidgeting in the sun.  Starting to figure out how to move around and am watching one make his/her way into the shade.  One of the adults is sitting just outside camera range and the kids are probably hoping for lunch ...

[Doreen]

Glad everything is well with this new family.