Mr. Bev here. The day today started off "relatively quiet". One of the chicks was on the heart bldg. The other was on CSB. I am not identifying them as yet as it got a little confusing. And as usual Froona started the day off flapping and squawking. The adults came in and one of them flew into the nest box and forced Froona out on to the roof of the nest box. Froona went back into the nest box and ate after adult left.
The boys are becoming quite the flyers. Mr. Yellow flew off the heart bldg. and flew around and ended up on the College Plaza. From there he flew over to Father's usual perch where he stayed for quite some time. He eventually flew back over to the heart building.
This is when things got hectic and confusing. The boys were all well fed throughout the day, especially Mr. Red. When Mr. Yellow flew back, Mr. Red started flying and they both ended up in relatively the same place. We confused the two for quite a while as the adults were flying around and feeding them. We lost track of Mr. Red for a while but found him on the side of the CSB. The two flew back and forth and we thought Mr. Yellow was Mr. Red and Mr. Red was Mr. Yellow as we could not see their bands. Finally as you saw in the pictures that were posted today, Mr. Red was identified when he landed on the roof of the nest box and stayed with Froona. We were able to see his band to identify him. Thus ended most of the confusion. As you can see in the pictures, Mr. Red and Froona touched beaks considerably. They were always close as small chicks and seems that this is still the case. Mr. Red stayed with Froona for quite some time.
What was surpising was the way not only Mr. Yellow flew but how strong and well Mr. Red flew. It was quite windy and they managed to fly around with little difficulty. Only once did Bev try and help by flapping her arms from the ground. Don't laugh!! It seemed to work. He made it.
Froona was quite upset during the evening as the boys spent a great deal of their time on the Heart bldg. She squawked a lot. The boys took a few more laps around the building and landed on the CSB. Mom was on the window washer arm on top of the Heart bldg. watching all this. Then, cheeky Mr. Red flew over and knocked her off her perch. She flew around and landed again. Mr. Red immediately knocked her off the perch again. She had enough and left and perched on another bldg. Things settled down a bit, but Froona still flapped on top of the nest box. Finally, one of the boys flew over. We had to leave at this point, so hope everything is quiet now.
I will be gone tomorrow , Bev will be calling some people to post on the Manitoba site as they are familiar with that forum.
Carly if you have the time would you post what these people post on bird cams around the world. If you don't have the time, I will try to post when I go home.
Froona should fly tomorrow so Bev should have an interesting day. Should lose a few more pounds running. What a way to diet, better than Jenny Craig. Doesn't seem to work the same for me though.
