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Offline Elaine L

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2011 / Windsong & ?
« Reply #165 on: April 29, 2011, 10:51 »
I don't know what's going on here.  Every time I go to this site, all I get are very loud commercials that everyone in my office area can hear, and all for nothing, as I never see any falcons. 

Whoever does reporting on this website said on April 15 that the male falcon went into the nestbox.  This is all we've got.

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2011 / Windsong & ?
« Reply #164 on: April 27, 2011, 17:20 »
no signs of falcons when i checked just now but they are probably around.
No eggs yet, does not look like much of a scrape
Hopefully no wars going on.

Southern road trip coming on. I can feel it.
« Last Edit: April 28, 2011, 08:25 by bev. »

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2011 / Windsong & ?
« Reply #163 on: April 11, 2011, 20:54 »
Thanks for the links ,bev  8)

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2011 / Windsong & ?
« Reply #162 on: April 11, 2011, 20:37 »
two new cams and live streaming
one is back

7:33pm


they are trickling in slowly in Alberta. I think if they got ahead of storms in sther path they made it back and others were slowed down

new links
outside = http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rdrn-pefa-external
inside = http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rdrn-peregrine-falcon

I will not be able to monitor this too much but thought I would pass on information

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2011 / Windsong & ?
« Reply #161 on: March 29, 2011, 16:40 »
I received a message from the Red Deer River Naturalists, who are overseeing this Falcon Cam.  Apparently they do not know if our falcons have arrived back yet, but they did say that Telus, the nestbox corporate donor, is planning to put the box up on the tower on April 6.  They say that the four cams should be in operation shortly after that.

Here is their webcam, in case anyone is interested in knowing what is happening in the nature community in Red Deer at present:  www.rdrn.fanweb.ca 

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Alberta / Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2011-2012 / Windsong & ?
« Reply #160 on: March 29, 2011, 16:27 »
2011 NESTING SEASON

Has anyone heard if Windsong and Perry are back yet?

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #159 on: August 11, 2010, 13:26 »
check out the weber site for information on the  further developments here.

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #158 on: August 02, 2010, 11:29 »
This chick is actually very lucky, we've had a number of chicks die in smokestacks in Winnipeg ...
Do you mean a number of peregrine chicks, TPC?!  :o (not you, of course! ;)) I've been watching for 4 years and don't recall any such catastrophes, but maybe before that? :-\

Yup, before that - most were in the 1980s, but one of our release birds from 1986 was found dead in a smokestack (during migration north) in 2004 I believe - still waiting for the details on that one, as you can see, sometimes it takes a long time to get the news ...

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #157 on: August 01, 2010, 22:30 »
I've tried to stuff her in a chimmeneneny a couple times, but she's pretty quick  ;D

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #156 on: August 01, 2010, 21:26 »
This chick is actually very lucky, we've had a number of chicks die in smokestacks in Winnipeg ...

Do you mean a number of peregrine chicks, TPC?!  :o (not you, of course! ;)) I've been watching for 4 years and don't recall any such catastrophes, but maybe before that? :-\

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #155 on: August 01, 2010, 16:20 »
Glad he's okay, Thank goodness for the persistence of those caring people.  :-* :)

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #154 on: August 01, 2010, 16:06 »
This chick is actually very lucky, we've had a number of chicks die in smokestacks in Winnipeg ...

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #153 on: August 01, 2010, 15:26 »
Too bad about this little guy getting stuck in a chimney, but at least it was the chimney of people who care about wildlife!  :-*

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #152 on: August 01, 2010, 12:14 »
The article mentioned this same small male had a three day walk on the ground below the tower after his fledge.  He has had a very eventful life, and is happily a survivor.

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Re: Red Deer - Telus Tower - 2010 / Windsong & Perry
« Reply #151 on: August 01, 2010, 08:45 »
Wow! How great there was someone there who persisted until they were able to free him - and persisted even thinking it was a sparrow!