Radisson - 2012 / Ivy & Princess

[The Peregrine Chick]

Pre-weekend weather report for Winnipeg

Environment Canada Forecast for the next week ...

• Thursday night - Cloudy. A few showers beginning this evening. Risk of a thunderstorm this evening and overnight. Low 18.
• Friday - Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming northwest 30 km/h in the morning. High 22. UV index 4 or moderate. Friday night - Mainly cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers early in the evening. Wind northwest 30 km/h becoming light late in the evening. Low 16.
  
• Saturday - A mix of sun and cloud. High 26.
• Sunday - Cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Low 18. High 28.
• Monday - Showers. Windy. Low 12. High 19.
• Tuesday - Sunny. Low 8. High 20.
• Wednesday - Sunny. Low 8. High 22.

[cadria]

Hanging out on the balcony with parent. 



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[cadria]

18:58 and all there is in front of camera is a big.....ball...... of..... feathers!    How rude! LOL

[photosbydennis]

Photos added...just scroll down.

http://www.pbase.com/photosbydennis/peregrines_2012

[The Peregrine Chick]

Poor little tot at the front of the box trying to nap sitting up so he can stay cool (and yes it is one of the boys).  His head drops forward and wakes him up and then he lies down and gets too warm after a minute or two and he's back to sitting.

Don't think it rained at all at the nestbox, so it's not any cooler up there than it has been - at least it's clouded over here, that's a small mercy.

[photosbydennis]

Well it's that time of year, the first Peregrine chicks have been banded and we have 2 more nest site to band...which means that you will be receiving a number of Peregrine photos over the summer mixed with Osprey just for a change...along with anything else that fly's.

Each location provides a different set-up for photographing...and each pair react differently when you enter their nesting area. As all birds appear to look the same until you have a close look...each bird has identifying marks and call.
This is now the fun part of the year...hope you enjoy.

Anyone wishing to be added to my photo list can email me...it's just that simple.

Cheers !
Dennis
ps. it's also fun prepping frozen nest boxes and removing meal remains from the season before in March...

[The Peregrine Chick]

1716h
There is a sunshower in western Winnipeg, maybe the chicks will decide to dance in the rain ... usually chicks do this when they are a bit older, but this gang is growing up so fast! 

[The Peregrine Chick]

For folks wanting to figure out who's who ... the outside-box-cam is the best one for seeing feet now, later it will be the skycam when the chicks are perched on the edge of the box prior to fledging.

The aluminium band is on the chicks' left legs - so the coloured tape is on their left legs  

  red = female
  white, yellow, green = male

[bcbird]

Once we see the kids in the outside light and can ID them by bracelet colour, we will be able to see exactly who is naughty and who is nice!

[Ellie]

Just checked the cam and it looks like the kids have been naughty and sent to the "corner".  They are all facing the wall. lol    Looks mighty cute.

[MayShowers]

Looks like it's dinner time at the Radisson

[RaptorGal]

Tracy, thank you so much for all your words of wisdom that we all might have understanding of phantachick behavior and what goes on in the nestbox.  As someone watching a second banding (I saw MacKenzie chicks get banded last year), this reinforces some of the things I remembered and some of the things that I forgot.  Thanks.  These phantabandits are sure growing fast!!  You can see some daily changes taking place, like balance and longer feathers, and of course the meal times are amusing as they pick at their food supply.

Now that they are banded, do we know which chick is the "Jack in the corner" or "Jill in the corner"?  I am not able to pick out the band colors with the falcon cam color picture that I see on my computer screen.

[The Peregrine Chick]

I must have missed something here; what was the panic about?

That the chicks hadn't been fed and that the parents weren't hanging out with the chicks anymore.  The banding always focusses viewers on changes in behaviour and concerns that human contact has had a negative impact.  It won't be nearly so bad when the Brandon chicks hit this same milestone - lots of new folks who have to yet to get comfortable with the changes that occur over a very short period of time.

[Elaine L]

I must have missed something here; what was the panic about?

[The Peregrine Chick]

The folks over on the CBC side have been having a panic about the chicks and I've already had a couple of phone calls (long distance too!) - so just in case some of the newer folks are reading this here's what I posted on the CBC site, though it looks as though the service that handles the comments is a couple of hours behind ... (they are at 0936h EDT - so two hours behind).

Hi Folks,

The Radisson chicks are fine. 

They were fed twice yesterday after we banded them - once in the afternoon and once late in the evening.  They were fed this morning at 0419h CDT.  Ivy (the male) spent most of the overnight hanging out with the chicks but left after Princess (the female) brough in the 0400h meal.  Time between feedings will increase to hours at this stage as well.  That is normal.  If the weather stays hot, expect more meals pre-dawn and early morning when its cooler.

Neither one of the adults is ever out-of-sight or hearing of the nestbox at this stage, they just don't hang out with them all the time.  Again, this is normal peregrine behaviour.  Just as an FYI, Ivy is the one who hangs out in the nestbox with the kids when it gets hot in the afternoon - he doesn't need to, he just does.

And there is the 10am meal just arriving ... the adults don't feed the chicks mouth-to-mouth anymore, now they have to learn to feed themselves in preparation for being able to hunt for themselves.  Part two of the 10am feeding arrived at 10:05am and the chicks are overrunning their father.  Ivy's brought enough food that at 1010am, Princess has come by for a nosh with the kids as well.  No one goes hungry at this nest!

I don't generally post updates in the comment section because we have found in previous years that most readers don't scroll back through all the comments to find answers before post - not surprising, there are always lots of comments.  So keep your eye on the "inside the Nest" updates above the video boxes OR check out the constant observations & conversation on the Manitoba Falcon Cam Forum - www.species-at-risk.mb.ca/pefa & click on the link on the right.

Happy Viewing
Tracy aka The Peregrine Chick

I'm going to also post this in the news section until I'm sure the panic has died down some ...