McKenzie Seeds - 2010 / Brooklyn & Hurricane

[Ellie]

How are your "Birdies"?  Miss the daily news.

[RCF]

Thanks Tracy, I'll keep looking.  She is usually in the right place for me to see, but facing wrong direction. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

I was talking to a fellow today while I was trying to see bands on the female, he told me he saw one of the falcons catch a pigeon in the parking lot beside the MTS mast. He said the band on its leg was red, so this is just heresay.  Are there any falcons with red leg bands?    And our Miss Priss here wasn't cooperating again. 

Yes, there are some captive-bred birds with red leg bands, but there really aren't that many around any more.  But before you panic, most of the Midwest birds now have a purple (though it looks red) aluminium band on their "other" leg.  So y'all need to look at both legs to see what colour is where.  To see what I mean, check out Dennis' photos from the Brandon banding in 2008, Holly's purple/red aluminium band is very visible along with her coloured (black over green) band on the other leg.

[allikat]

I think it's common for all peregrines around the globe! 
I guess they just don't want to show any leg! 

[RCF]

I was talking to a fellow today while I was trying to see bands on the female, he told me he saw one of the falcons catch a pigeon in the parking lot beside the MTS mast. He said the band on its leg was red, so this is just heresay.  Are there any falcons with red leg bands?    And our Miss Priss here wasn't cooperating again. 

[Kinderchick]

Whew! Thanks for this info, TPC!

[The Peregrine Chick]

For the forum, blog and online store, that's on our website, but don't worry, we have that covered just fine.  The photos are on the pbase.com website because they handle photos better and cheaper than adding them to the Project's website directly.  As for the webcam, there is no charge to the Project.  

This is a very simplified description of how this works ... when you have a website, you pay for the space to store your webpages and whatever else you have (blog, photos, etc).  You also pay for a certain amount of traffic to your website, not individual people or page views or time but rather the electronic version of all of the above - its usually (perhaps always) a set amount of traffic per month and if you go over it you pay more per - like going over on your cellphone account.  In the case of the webcam, CBC Manitoba and Shaw are absorbing all the costs for your visits to the webcam.

So please be sure to thank CBC Manitoba and Shaw if you have the opportunity or wish to make the opportunity.  Given the popularity of the FalconCam we most certainly could not share the peregrines with anyone!

[RCF]

Its a nice idea RCF and we are looking into it but keep in mind that these things are very expensive - for every page viewed there is a charge, and a million page views a month last year on the CBC/Shaw FalconCam, so the answer is its a very (very) expensive project.

But we would like one too and we are working on it.  Will let y'all know if we get anywhere on it.

Thank you for the info.  It sure would be nice, but I guess I shouldn't hold my breath.

[Kinderchick]

...for every page viewed there is a charge, and a million page views a month last year on the CBC/Shaw FalconCam, so the answer is its a very (very) expensive project...

Wow! Do you actually mean that every time I and other Phanatics view a page on the Forum, there is a charge?! Is this charge to the Recovery Project?! Maybe I should not be viewing pages so much?!

[The Peregrine Chick]

Its a nice idea RCF and we are looking into it but keep in mind that these things are very expensive - for every page viewed there is a charge, and a million page views a month last year on the CBC/Shaw FalconCam, so the answer is its a very (very) expensive project.

But we would like one too and we are working on it.  Will let y'all know if we get anywhere on it.

[RCF]

Tracy, Would you know if there would ever be a webcam for our Brandon peregrines?

[The Peregrine Chick]

The Radisson gravel is pristine because it is, we changed it just a couple of weeks before the photo was taken.  As for the Brandon box, last time I looked inside, it was good shape.  And keep in mind that the cold of winter does help to clean things up by dessicating whatever is there and then the winds blow stuff out. 

[Rose]

Rcf didn't say but we must have spent 2 hours all over downtown,when the female flew off the nest the last time we thought she had gone north, that,s when we decided to do a walkabout and there she was on the window ledge, seemed like she was having a nap after all that activity in the nest. We watched her a long time,hoping she would stand up because we could see her quite well. Could even see her eye(that was toward us) and her beak. Bars on her front seem to go fairly high and her bib doesn't seem as white as the male but her back seems the same colur as the male.She was sitting so we couldn't see any of her feet and legs and when she flew off we weren't quick enough to see her bands.Question for tpc does any one top up the gravel in the nest box and check it for safety? The one on the raddison seems so pristine .

[RCF]

We will keep trying, the best place to see her legs is the parking lot on the north side of MTS mast where she sometimes perches. 

[RCF]

We went to backlane on west side to see if she would stand up so we could see her legs because it's closer. She was keeping an eye on us and of course when she did stand up, she flew away. I think we disturbed her nap