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Offline RCF

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #887 on: July 03, 2012, 22:03 »
Quote from: susha on July 03, 2012, 21:55
We'll all testify on your behalf, RCF!  You were on important PRP business! ;D

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #886 on: July 03, 2012, 21:55 »
We'll all testify on your behalf, RCF!  You were on important PRP business! ;D
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #885 on: July 03, 2012, 20:56 »
Quote from: photosbydennis on July 03, 2012, 20:38
A few more Brandon Banding photos have been added.

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

I love all your photos except for the one.  ::)  I think you should blank out the plate number because I don't want the cops chasing me down for parking on a one way street. :P  ;D
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #884 on: July 03, 2012, 20:38 »
A few more Brandon Banding photos have been added.

http://www.pbase.com/photosbydennis/mckenzieseeds_brandon
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #883 on: July 03, 2012, 20:31 »
Quote from: Leana on July 03, 2012, 19:41
** IDEA ** (for TPC  ;))...

If or when you put transmitters on these guys, would it be possible to put a strip of the coloured tape that matches their legs on the top or side of the backpack?  I think it  would really help in identifying them with the wide angle views we are likely to have from herein.  Just an idea...

Hey Leana I don't think TPC has much to do with putting the transmitters on any of these chicks it's a Conservation/University of Manitoba Research Project. Tracy's role is to make sure that it's done in a safe way and no harm comes to the chicks. If you cover the back of the transmitters you would cover the solar batteries. They will be flying very soon after and then you will only be able to see the antenna once they fledge.Once they have left the McK Bld there will only be photos from the ground,or if we are lucky they may occasionally come back to the lower roof area but this hasn't been the case in Hurricane's last three nests.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #882 on: July 03, 2012, 20:19 »
Quote from: Leana on July 03, 2012, 19:37
How can you tell that is Hunter RCF?  I can't see coloured leg bands at that distance!

I took video of them and took a capture from that, so when he moved off I could see the band with tape was dark. Process of elimination, Maya is bigger than the two boys and Sol's tape is white, so that's how I can tell. :)
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #881 on: July 03, 2012, 20:08 »
Quote from: RCF on July 03, 2012, 18:06
Hunter looks like he is the king of the castle standing on that grate cover.  :)



Can't remember which fledgling (male, though) was fond of standing on the grate when Princess & Trey used the nestledge.......I will have to look for a picture!  Gotta be a male thing....... ;D
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #880 on: July 03, 2012, 19:41 »
** IDEA ** (for TPC  ;))...

If or when you put transmitters on these guys, would it be possible to put a strip of the coloured tape that matches their legs on the top or side of the backpack?  I think it  would really help in identifying them with the wide angle views we are likely to have from herein.  Just an idea...
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #879 on: July 03, 2012, 19:37 »
How can you tell that is Hunter RCF?  I can't see coloured leg bands at that distance!
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #878 on: July 03, 2012, 18:06 »
Hunter looks like he is the king of the castle standing on that grate cover.  :)

« Last Edit: July 27, 2017, 20:32 by RCF »
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #877 on: July 03, 2012, 17:53 »
Maya, Hunter & Sol... Wonderful names! :D Well thought out, as usual, and very fitting.
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #876 on: July 03, 2012, 16:47 »
Quote from: The Peregrine Chick on July 03, 2012, 10:29
Just got confirmation ...

Chick Names

The Brandon chicks hatched on June 5th which is the date of the Transit of Venus (http://www.transitofvenus.org/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus).  Because Venus has a retrograde orbit it is viewed twice in six years then not again for 100+ years - the next transit will be in 2117 - hopefully by that date, the peregrines won't need our assistance anymore!

Female (red) - Maya - the Maya were amazing astronomers and Venus was very important to them and they understood the planet's full cycle - the Venus cycle was especially important because the Maya believed it was associated with war and used it to divine appropriate times for coronations and war - Maya rulers planned for wars to begin when Venus rose.

Male (green) - Hunter - Maureen Hunter (http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Hunter%2C%20Maureen) - one of the transit expeditions was lead by Guillaume Le Gentil - he spent 8 years travelling in an attempt to observe either of the 1761/1769 transits but failing - his unsuccessful journey led to him losing his wife and possessions being declared dead.  Winnipeg playwright Maureen Hunter based her play "Transit of Venus" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus_(play)) on his life.  Play premiered at MTC in 1992 (1992 was also the last year we released captive-bred chicks in Brandon - 1993 was the first successful nest)

Male (white) - Sol - the Latin name for the star, Sol, is widely known but is not common in general English language use - the Transit of Venus is an astronomical event, the voyage of a planet (Venus) across the face of the a star (Sol)
Awesome Choice, Tracey. 
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #875 on: July 03, 2012, 16:01 »
I really like the names also!  :)  Rose and I were told at the banding that they might use these names, I'm glad they did.  ;D 8)
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #874 on: July 03, 2012, 15:46 »
Quote from: RCF on July 02, 2012, 16:00
The wind is blowing on the roof and the three peregrine chicks are seemingly chased by what looks like a food wrapper of some kind.  

http://youtu.be/cwafUS--g7M

Great video - thanks, RCF!
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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2012 / July
« Reply #873 on: July 03, 2012, 14:15 »
Chicks watching the wrapper that found them again...  ;D

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