I guess from that post we can take it that the fledges from the west roof box were all successful with no problems of chicks coming to ground or anything untoward happening to the chicks.
Oh lord, no, not all the fledges from the west side were successful, we just seem to have more problems on the east side. And we've had more years nesting on the west side so a list will take me a bit longer
Are you going to hack the West Winnipeg chicks again this Year because you said last year that they were hatched in an unsafe place (worse than the east nest Ledge), maybe you could Hack the Radisson chicks from the same place as the West Winnipeg chicks were hacked last year and the parents of course being wild birds would get on with their lives just like Jules and Beau did last year. You said it was out in the country with no buildings or traffic to run into and a very safe place.
No we will not be hacking any chicks this year. Last year we had an opportunity that will likely not occur again and we were able to take advantage of it. Besides the point is to have a self-sustaining wild population of peregrines - that means that if we were to stop everything, they would still be able to live and reproduce without us. And hacking doesn't make them any more successful, just makes us feel that we have "helped" them. And we had the same loss rate with the "hacked" West Winnipeg chicks as we had for every other wild chick in the province - 2 out of 3 died before March. Probably the same rate as for last year's Radisson chicks, McKenzie Seeds chicks and Selkirk chicks. Probably the same rate as for this year's chicks too. In fact, we have had more Radisson chicks survive to return and nest than we did from 14 years of hacking. We had 8 hack birds in 14 years return to nest somewhere - we've had 6 from Princess and Trey alone, let alone the chicks from Pop & Maud, Pop & Madame, Mufasa & Phoebe, Madame & T-Rex, Trey & Princess, Holly & Zeus, Holly & Keener-Screech and now even Jules & Beau.
