West Winnipeg - 2013 / Beau & Jules

[Kinderchick]

2 chicks! That's great news!

[MayShowers]

Wonderful news

[Ellie]

That is great news!

[The Peregrine Chick]

Two chicks for sure, think there is at least one egg still there but can't be sure ...

[dupre501]

Woohoo! Great news TPC!

Beau was on the Diner yesterday evening about 6 p.m.

[The Peregrine Chick]

No idea how many eggs we had but I do know that we have at least one chick here now ...

[The Peregrine Chick]

Can confirm that as of today, we still have eggs in the tuppernest and I'm going to guess by the size of the pile that we have three, but won't know until/if I get a better look at the nest or until they hatch, whichever comes first ...

[The Peregrine Chick]

1434h CDT
Sunny and no wind at the tuppernest - looks like it is Beau on the eggs but can't be sure because the tuppernest is further away from our cameras than was originally intended/installed.

[dupre501]

At about 5:45, Beau was at the Diner.

[bccs]

I'm going to be out and about in the west Winnipeg area tomorrow. I'll take a scout around and with luck will see something worth posting.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Dates we know about for Beau and Jules ....

up to May 2 - Beau and Jules were near/at/on the tuppernest but did not look to be incubating though sometimes at night they would hang out in the tuppernest with their egg(s)

May 2 - Beau and Jules look to have begun incubation on who know how many eggs though 4 is likely based on past experience

May 29 - Day 27 by our estimates
June 1 - Day 30 = very estimated start of hatching date

[dupre501]

Saturday 3 pm - Jules at the Tower, in the rain.

[The Peregrine Chick]

1030h

Light is a bit dim at this location, but looks like Beau in the tuppernest and Jules hanging out at the edge of camera range ...  These two shouldn't be affected by the weather at all today, they are pretty well tucked under cover

Forecast for Winnipeg

Day - Overcast with rain in the afternoon. High of 19C. Winds from the ESE at 10 to 15 km/h. Chance of rain 60%.
Night - Overcast with thunderstorms. Fog overnight. Low of 10C. Breezy. Winds from the East at 10 to 20 km/h shifting to the NNE after midnight. Chance of rain 90% with rainfall amounts near 12.7 mm possible.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Tracy,  any word on the transmitters on the two chicks from last year?

At last report (beginning of May) Juliet was making her way back towards Winnipeg and got to about the Morris area when she turned back around and headed back to Minnesota - lots of small lakes east of Grand Forks and north of Bemidji.  Haven't had an update since then.

Lilith died in mid-November on her wintering grounds in Arkansas.  They found her remains so it wasn't a case of transmitter failure but I haven't heard whether or not a cause of death was determined (or could be determined).

[Qumran]

Beau favoured me with an awesome aerial display yesterday as I left work for my car.   I'm going to miss seeing these guys in the 'feathers' when our office moves to the Park.  I've been so lucky to have been downtown to watch Trey hunt off the Birks Building from my office window, and to see Beau and Jules do what they do out here in West Winnipeg.  I guess I'll just have to settle myself with watching the geese over run the Duck Pond on my lunch breaks...