West Winnipeg - 2017 / Ty & Faith

[The Peregrine Chick]

And now we have a full house ...

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/869584669402071040

[dupre501]

 

[Shocka88]

That is a great pic of the doting Dad & his "newborns".

[carly]

   

[The Peregrine Chick]

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/869296470851289094

[Kinderchick]

Woo hoo! Congrats to Faith & Ty! 

[The Peregrine Chick]

And then there were three ....

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/869214759069134848

[Shocka88]

Hmmm......day 33 seems popular this year! I wonder if P&P will stick with the program.   

[The Peregrine Chick]

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/869061577424744448

We'll have to see what today (Monday) holds - perhaps the family will be complete by the sun rises. 

[The Peregrine Chick]

Still quiet on the western front    Can't see any pips in the eggs yet but could be hidden from the cameras view so far, we'll just have to wait and see.  Our best count puts today at Day 32 of incubation - could be tomorrow or could be as late as Wednesday.  Faith and Ty are really the only ones who actually know when the eggs are going to hatch at this point.  I've attached a link to a shift change from this morning in the tweet below.

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/868522153716703233

[The Peregrine Chick]

Nice smooth shift changes between Ty and Faith when Ty is on the eggs.  Faith often gets a little miffed when he's not around when she wants to take a break, but not much she can really do about it.  He's a very attentive mate, usually hanging out nearby and almost always sits on the roof of the box or on the ledge right beside the box during bad weather.  We don't have any other males that are that attentive - though maybe Pip will be like that ... in any case, given how much Ty hangs out with Faith, it just figures that the minute he steps away, she wants a shift change   He's used to longer shifts with his previous two mates I suspect.  Nothing to be concerned about, just part of this pair's combined personality.

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/867756408137285632

Faith relieving Ty after his 6 hour shift this morning ...

[The Peregrine Chick]

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/866337439396356096

If you want to see bigger image, click on the link below the tweet

[The Peregrine Chick]

More creature of habit stuff - I took today's photo and yesterday's photo at pretty much the same time - Faith and Ty both have this habit of hopping off the eggs before their mate actually turns up if the weather is not wet or cold.  I don't know if it is because the other mate flies around or past or something else off camera.  Not sure I remember Ty doing it with Beatrix but it certainly is pair does. 

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/865964813398269952

[The Peregrine Chick]

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/865595301989556224

With the warmer temperatures, both Ty and Faith have been spending time off the eggs.  Ty definitely needed to stretch his legs after a long, long early morning shift and with the sun shining right into the box and onto the eggs, he had the luxury that Faith, who takes the later shifts, doesn't have!  Early bird gets the warm morning sun I guess!

[The Peregrine Chick]

https://twitter.com/mbperegrines/status/864518463347445761