Radisson - 2014 / Smiley & Princess

[Liz]

 I heard you on CBC Radio - great interview!

[susha]

Soooo good to see Princess again.  We are so lucky

[susha]

Heard on "Up to Speed" that the webcam was live   Rushed home to tune in and have checked in every once in awhile all evening to see Princess on the eggs...yawn

Very happy to have the cam ready before the family hatches.  Wonder what kind of dad Smiley will be

Thanks TPC, Dennis and Eye-Spy!

We're ready for another season of wonders...

[Kinderchick]

Yippee!!! So egg-citing to see the Winnipeg CBC/Shaw falcon cam up for the season!

[The Peregrine Chick]

Easy ways to tell Princess and Smiley apart

• Princess is larger than Smiley but there isn't as much of a difference as there was with Ivy
• Princess has more light coloured feathers on her head, Smiley's is all black.  If you see wisps of light colour on his head it's because his "do" is messed up - doesn't happen often, he preens more than any bird we have ever had
• Princess' speckles come up higher on her breast, Smiley's breast is whiter

[Moonstar]

I just checked the CBC site and low and behold I can view the web cam this year at work.  Nice clear picture.  I have no sound tho.  Who knows if I will continue to get it at work tho.  One day I could view Dennis's photo site and then at lunch it was blocked and has been since then at work.

[Moonstar]

   yay the camera is up.  Can't see it at work but will check it out when I get home.  Greats shots RCF. 

[RCF]

Are they going to change the heading on the cam page because it says "Princess and Ivy" ?

It's been changed. 

[moka]

Great snaps! I too wondered if this was Smiley. He seems too small to be Princess.

We have video

[RCF]

I think this is Smiley.  

 

[sparkster]

Princess in the nestbox. What a welcome sight! 

[RCF]

Are they going to change the heading on the cam page because it says "Princess and Ivy" ?

[The Peregrine Chick]

1540h - Princess is on "mumbrella" duty right now, the box is warm enough the eggs need shade rather than to be kept warm ...

[The Peregrine Chick]

Shift change about 15 minutes ago and Princess is on the eggs once again.  Don't think we are quite ready for hatch, she tends to do all the incubating once the kids start to make noises inside the shell.  Smiley had his usual shift from 8 to just a few minutes ago so all seems to be progressing the way it usually does.  We are day 28 of incubation by our count, so 4-7 days more if the time remains about the same.  But every year is different ....

Equipment is talking nicely to one another at the Radisson, now we are checking that it will talk to the internet ... hope to have a launch date for everyone very very soon.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Except I still wonder what happened to Ivy  

Accident maybe.  Or just very late and knows he's too late.  Or very late and Smiley explained the new pecking order and he's off somewhere else.  Or he found another lady friend ... he been awfully friendly with ladies in the past - Lucy, Jules, Princess, Sandy and Joli. 

If he is around somewhere and someone gets a look at his leg bands, they will hopefully report it and we'll get notified, but could take more than a few months depending on when reported and how big the backlog is at the banding office.