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Offline maggieblue

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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1708 on: April 11, 2009, 08:44 »
Egg number two  ;D  Finally :D
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1707 on: April 11, 2009, 08:20 »
Quote from: Liz on April 11, 2009, 08:18
come on, honey -- just drop that egg!   :)  :)

She's certainly bending herself into some interesting shapes isn't she?  Peregrine Tai Chi  ::)
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1706 on: April 11, 2009, 08:18 »
come on, honey -- just drop that egg!   :)  :)
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1705 on: April 11, 2009, 07:10 »
Quote from: Liz on April 11, 2009, 06:46
'squawking' away

How many times did I try to spell it and still didn't get it right?!  lmao!  
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1704 on: April 11, 2009, 06:58 »
And breakfast is served  ;)
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1703 on: April 11, 2009, 06:46 »
I remember why they close one eye, from last year.  But I didn't know the first part.  Thanks again for the knowledge, TPC!   :D

And wow, mom is squawking away.  It sounds like, "Honey, I really need to stretch my wings and, ya know, drop the kids off at the pool.  Get your tail-feathers over here!"  
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1702 on: April 11, 2009, 06:42 »
Mama in the nestbox this morning looking perky, alert and quite noisy!
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1701 on: April 10, 2009, 23:10 »
Watch their eyes - if they look "light" that is their closed eyelid.  The snooze, as I call it, minute eyes closed, open look around, close again.  For folks with cats as pets, same kind of thing that cats do when they are dozing. 

They also close one eye when they want to look at something up-close - monocular vision for close up, binocular for distances.  That cute little head tilt isn't actually for looking ahead but rather up with one eye.
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1700 on: April 10, 2009, 23:07 »
Thank you TPC...great explanation and I know understand why.
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1699 on: April 10, 2009, 23:04 »
If both the adults are inside at night and a predator came in, there would be no way for either of them to fight effectively.  And not all adults stay in the nestbox unless they are incubating or brooding.  At the Radisson, prior to the beginning of incubation, one adult would sit on the edge of the nestbox, the other usually below on the sign.  And they don't really seem to like to be inside anything unless its the breeding season.  I've seen them in the pouring rain right outside a nestbox long after the chicks have fledged and they ignore the dry box.
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1698 on: April 10, 2009, 22:56 »
Why is it that both male and female falcons (the pair) don't stay in the nest together at night? 

Just curious....
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1697 on: April 10, 2009, 22:08 »
Really weird. She did just do some preening so she CAN move.
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1696 on: April 10, 2009, 21:57 »
It's normal at this site.  They are mesmerized by the light, it seems.  Last summer the three kids lined up together on the ledge and stared out all night long, night after night.  Well, sometimes Lightning would take a nap, but I never saw the boys do that last year.  
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1695 on: April 10, 2009, 21:32 »
I know!!!
It's so strange to see that.  I thought the same thing the other night, meaning, I thought she was going to lay an egg because she was staring out into the unknown, I was completely wrong.  Apparently this is normal???
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Re: Minnesota / Elk River - 2009 / ? & ?
« Reply #1694 on: April 10, 2009, 21:28 »
she is amazing .. really ... it's like she just zones out.  she did look kind of puffy earlier ... i thought she was up to something.
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