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Offline Alison

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #74 on: May 15, 2010, 13:21 »
Beautiful captures Alison, they are such a great couple  :-* :-* 

Thanks, Carly! They are a great couple.

The three chicks being fed today:

 

 

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #73 on: May 10, 2010, 19:00 »
Beautiful captures Alison, they are such a great couple  :-* :-*

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #72 on: May 10, 2010, 18:57 »
I'm so happy for Hera and Zeus that their first chick has hatched:

Hera feeding the chick:

 

 

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #71 on: May 10, 2010, 17:53 »
Don't see many boxes like that these days ... thats more all the nestboxes we have here ...

They have a choice of two nest boxes - one with a roof, which they chose last year, and one without a roof, which they are using this year.

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #70 on: May 10, 2010, 10:37 »
At least one hatch

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #69 on: May 10, 2010, 10:32 »
Don't see many boxes like that these days ... thats more all the nestboxes we have here ...

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #68 on: May 09, 2010, 20:36 »
Nice photo of them both together, Alison. :)

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #67 on: May 09, 2010, 16:35 »
Hera and Zeus at the nest: Zeus is on the eggs, while Hera is on the edge of the box. They stayed like that for some time. I thought Hera was waiting for her turn on the eggs, but then she left.



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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #66 on: May 03, 2010, 17:20 »
This is very interesting, TPC, but I had to read it over about 10 times to begin to hold some of the connections in my head! ::) How on earth do you do it?! :o

Grey cells with nothing better to do  ;) ;D

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #65 on: May 03, 2010, 14:05 »
This is very interesting, TPC, but I had to read it over about 10 times to begin to hold some of the connections in my head! ::) How on earth do you do it?! :o

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #64 on: April 17, 2010, 02:42 »
Okay, here's a blast from the past plus some new stuff ... this is a note I posted last year (if you want to see more of the conversation, click on the link)

Did you know that before Hera, Zeus was paired with Winnie, and yes, Winnie as in Winnipeg.  She was another kid of T-Rex (Trey's Dad - they are half-sibs) from the University of Manitoba Campus.  Doorly in Topeka is one of their kids.  Hope his mate is one of Amelia's kids and Amelia is a full sib of Madame, Trey's Mom. 

Was doing some more family tree work and here it goes ... Maud our original wild-nesting female is from the Multi-foods Tower in Minneapolis.  Her first nest in 1989 produced T-Rex.  In 1994, T-Rex by Burnsie (his second mate - after Madame in 1991 and before Madame again in 1995) produced Winnie who was paired with Zeus (yes Woodmen Tower Zeus) and they produced a whole whack of chicks in their 4 years together.  Of them a number have or still hold territories: Husker, Tower, Goldie and Doorly.  I'm looking at Goldie right now - she was paired with Dakota Ace for 1 year and she produced Copper, Cash & Fargo.  Copper went on to produce Gypsy (among others) who is kind of notorious, it appears she may have killed a resident female named Amelia in Minneapolis (not Omaha's Amelia), then she appears to have dispatched another Minneapolis resident female (Phoebe) before pairing up with her mate Frisco.  Last fall, Gypsy was spotted at the Multifoods Tower with an as yet unidentified male, perhaps the resident male here.  It should be noted that of the Multifoods Tower female from last year, there is no sign ...

Talk about a circle if she nests there this year - 20 years after Maud nested in Winnipeg, her great-great-great-grand-daughter is the resident female!!

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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #63 on: April 09, 2010, 19:14 »
They did it again


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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #62 on: February 24, 2010, 22:39 »
A great pic from the blog:



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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #61 on: February 11, 2010, 20:21 »
Love the pics, Bev, especially the one with Zeus in the foreground and Hera on the nest!

Hera visited again today:

 



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Re: Omaha / Woodmen Tower - 2009-2011 / Zeus & Hera
« Reply #60 on: February 09, 2010, 15:15 »
I have been keeping an eye here and they are both here.  It snowed but appears to be clearing up