Radisson - 2012 / Ivy & Princess

[Kinderchick]

Great news about the restoration of your internet connection, TPC! And very interesting to hear about the shared incubation. If Ivy really does take after his father, I wonder if he's going to hone his housekeeping skills anytime soon and learn to clean up the nestbox a bit, like Trey did.

[bcbird]

TPC, it is very interesting to hear your compare and contrast observations of Ivy and Trey.

So nice that you are very confident in Ivy's abilities to live up to his father's example.

[Saoirse]

All the news is good, TPC -- but it's especially interesting to hear that Ivy is showing some signs that maybe he won't let Princess "rule the roost" unquestioningly this year. Feeding time could become quite a challenge!

[RCF]

Great news about the interenet connection!!   

[The Peregrine Chick]

Another interesting turn, is that Princess and Ivy are incubating about equally this year and he has refused to get off the eggs at least once so far.  Reminded me of Trey - but maybe its age and experience as well as genetics.  I tend to forget that Ivy is 7 years old now, that Princess is his third mate and that he's had two failed nest attempts and two successful nest attempts.  If he hasn't learned what to do and what not to do by now, he would be too slow a learner to be one of Trey's kids!!!

Anywho, Princess tolerated Ivy's stubborness for about 4 minutes then he had to move - until then he just stared her down and didn't move a muscle.  Will be interesting to see if she lets him feed the kids more often this year. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

GOOD NEWS
Whoo hoo, internet connection is back!!!  We have to get some upgrades to the CBC computer but I don't believe that will affect our being able to keep track of Princess, Ivy and the 4 eggs and it won't interfere with the webcam launch - date is tentative at the moment, but should be around the beginning of May - will post confirmed date when I have it.

BETTER NEWS
With the restored internet connection I've been going blind going through the video.  Have some blurry video of Ivy with Miss Hanky-Panky but couldn't get a band number but I'm pretty sure I saw an anodized band on her left leg - the anodized band would make her a US bird but most US birds have their coloured bands on their left legs.  Will go back and check photos of Sandy and see what leg she has her coloured band on as she is most likely Miss Hanky-Panky given her history of housesitting at the Radisson.

BEST NEWS
Have been able to confirm laying dates at the Radisson - 7 days between first and last egg and incubation began right on time with egg #3.
Egg 1 - April 3 @ 0740h
Egg 2 - April 5 @ 0903h
Egg 3 - April 7/8 overnight (between 10pm and 7am - too dark to see on camera)
Egg 4 - April 10 @ 1150h

Interestingly, both Princess and Ivy have been on the eggs alot of the time right from the laying of egg 1 - particularly first thing in the morning, then off in the midday period then back as sunshades in the afternoon.  Not really surprising since daily highs April 3-6 were 14C, 16C, 20C respectively.  Hard incubation began - morning of April 7th (before egg 3 laid) and daily high temperature dropped from 20C on the 6th to 12C on the 7th.  April 8th was 9C, 9th was -0.7C (high for the day) and the 10th was almost 3C.  From April 11th to 18th, daily highs have ranged from 4C to 18C.  What a change from say 5 years ago when Trey and Princess were nesting in an icestorm on April 24/25 incubating 3 eggs, then got hit with a snowstorm on May 4th.

So say, 28 days of incubation from April 7th is May 5th, but Princess usually incubates for between 31 and 34 days.  So, estimated hatch date range is May 7th to 10th.

[Saoirse]

In the city today to catch up with some friends and, of course, made a point of looking for "our" birds . . . drove up Portage Avenue with no luck, walked along near the Radisson searching the sky and still had no luck. Next time! 

[The Peregrine Chick]

Still working on the internet connection here, hopefully will get sorted soon.

And for our out-of-province phanatics, it's not been "sunny Manitoba" for the last few days but it looks like we are to have some sun soon.  Here's the Winnipeg weather report to the weekend ...

Today - Cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers this morning. Wind northeast 30 km/h becoming light early this morning. High 8.
Tonight - Clearing this evening. Low minus 5.
Thursday - Sunny. Wind becoming north 20 km/h early in the evening. High 6.
Friday - Sunny. Low minus 5. High 10.

[Mother Hen]

Four babies....great news.

[Liz]

Great news about the four eggs.  Thanks to TPC, eyespy, and Dennis for keeping us looped with news and photos. 

[Liz]

It was interesting to see that Princess pretty much abandoned the Sterling Bldg with Ivy.....when she was with Trey, both of them were frequent visitors to that bldg (which I appreciated a lot since it was right in front of my desk!!).  

That's the same way I feel about the JR sign, Pam.  I got at least 4 summers of seeing Princess perched there on a regular basis, and Trey too, if I was lucky.  

[photosbydennis]

A few more photos have been added

http://www.pbase.com/photosbydennis/radisson_2012

[Kinderchick]

Drove by the Radisson on my way home from doing a few errands this afternoon. Looked around for any sightings of peregrine falcons, but alas, saw nothing. Princess must have been tucked in the nestbox, incubating her eggs. Did a double take, though, when I spotted a Canada Goose nesting on the roof of Portage Place Mall! A very strange sight to see!

[eagle63_1999]

Congrats to Princess and Ivy!!!!! 

[photosbydennis]

A few photos have been added.

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