West Winnipeg - 2012 / Beau & Jules

[Moonstar]

Good to hear that you can get a better look at the chicks.  When will the banding take place here?

[The Peregrine Chick]

Finally the chicks have left the tuppernest - took them three weeks to do it!  Nice thing about this is that at the moment they are in front of camera number 2 which gives us our best picture of them so far this year - three chicks looking plump and healthy!

[Kinderchick]

Yes, it is interesting, bcf. I was driving east down Portage Ave. in the late afternoon this past Friday and sure enough, the distinctive flight characteristics of a PF, circling around a few times.

[birdcamfan]

Lucky for you and your family! You must have trained your eye to notice these things, most people wouldn't.
A couple of weeks ago I was coming north on Pembina just before the Jubilee overpass and something caught my eye. Sure enough it was a PF coming from the fields just west of there. It then circled back towards downtown. It's funny how you pick up that difference in flight characteristics after seeing them a few times.

[Leana]

I was out for dinner tonight with my husband and kids.  As we left the restaurant and were walking to the car I looked up at the sky, towards the building of the "evil" nesting spot, not really expecting to see anything.  But I got a lovely surprise!  Somebirdie (and my guess, by size, is that it was Beau) did a fly by and landed on one of the railings.  My husband, who saw said bird at the same time as me, said "is that?" and I replied (with much excitement) "I think so!" .  We walked to where we had a view of the  rail he landed on and sure enough, it was definitely a falcon.  Sure am kicking myself for not having binoculars in the car!

What an unexpected treat!    I would have hung around to watch longer but the kids were impatient to get home...

[susha]

We need some more girls in Winnipeg, so I vote for two girls and one boy

[The Peregrine Chick]

Wasn't Mistral a lot smaller than her siblings.  Can't remember if she was still smaller than her sibllings at fledge time tho. 

Mistral was smaller than her siblings right up until fledging at which point she was pretty much the same size - we were all hard pressed to tell them apart once they were up and flying.  We thought we had 3 males and 1 female (Mistral) when in fact we know we had at least 3 females (Mistral, Hurricane & Taku).  Chinook could have been a female as well, but we have had no reports of him/her since fledging so can't confirm his/her gender ... yet.

[Moonstar]

Wasn't Mistral a lot smaller than her siblings.  Can't remember if she was still smaller than her sibllings at fledge time tho. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

We need an enforcer there to talk to these parents 

hope all is well with third chick

Third chicks looks fine and perfectly spunky - doesn't seem to be lagging behind its sibs so far but I'm keeping an eye on him/her.  Just smaller.  Or maybe the others are bigger. 

[bev.]

We need an enforcer there to talk to these parents 

hope all is well with third chick

[The Peregrine Chick]

Mom or Dad sitting on the rail, can't tell with the light. The three chicks roaming around in the box...after few more day's there won't be much room...

I was checking this family this morning and managed to get a good look (relatively speaking) of the three chicks - one is smaller (smaller but not younger) than the others, not dangerously so at this stage of their development (they are 2+ weeks old) just noticeably smaller.  Could be that we have at least one male and one female here.  Jules and Beau don't produce small females like Princess and Trey did, so the chicks may just be close enough to banding that the size differences are starting to be noticeable even at a distance and in less than optimal lighting (I really wish these birds were nesting a bit closer to the cameras *sigh*).

[photosbydennis]

Mom or Dad sitting on the rail, can't tell with the light. The three chicks roaming around in the box...after few more day's there won't be much room...

[The Peregrine Chick]

Any update on these guys TPC?

Dennis managed to get our cam back on line today!

Looks like there are three chicks at this site - not sure if there have always been three or if one chick died awhile ago because there is no sign of a body anywhere.  Why now?  The chicks are finally old enough that they lie down separately and move a bit around the box so we can actually see bodies as opposed on one amorphous white pile which is what we have been seeing up until now.  Unfortunately the only camera we can see them on is the wide-angle camera and the nest is even further away from the camera than it was last year.  This camera has always given us less detail, now the detail is even less.  We were pretty sure we saw four eggs and when the chicks hatched, we couldn't see any eggs (and usually you do at some point) and the weather for them right after hatching was warm/hot so both Jules and Beau spent a fair time with the chicks but not on them during the first few days and still we couldn't see a fourth egg.  Not long until we band these guys though we don't have a confirmed date yet.  And that's about all the new news there is.

[Leana]

Any update on these guys TPC?

[maryann]

I had the privilege of watching an in flight kill last Friday and the resulting shower of feathers! A tenant of the building mentioned the 'taking' of the chicks last year and I couldn't understand why until I read Tracy's post. Makes a lot of sense for that locale.