august10. nutrienwell we knew B88 would have trouble, as he was not developing as quick as he should. but it was thought that , it was good to put him back and see what transpired. It was good for B73 , as he had to learn to compete for food. B88 is a little go getter and B73 , struggled but soon learned dhow to get his own.
b88 had companionship and they got along well, except where food was concerned
up until Sunday when cams went down, B88 was looking good food wise ,but tail feather shafts were spotty( we have seen this before) and he had a lot of fluff.
Not good time for cam to go down.
but when it came up on Tuesday, we saw B73 come in later in evening , with prey. He left and we think it was B88 that came in and slept in corner. He had no crop and was fluffy. We cannot be 100 percent as we could not see bands
WEdnesday we saw no one .
yesterday, august9, I go t an email from RFOfalcon ( who is on holidays) saying they found our missing falcon, it was on the ground , not injured, but not in good shape. What a great crew he has there. they all went looking an after spotting him, they caught him, put him a box and put him in security room ,
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I called ROFfalcon and said Peter would go and retrieve him. But we phoned Gord to let him know and he was on his way with food and water.
so B88 is fine, just scrawny and his tail feather shafts are sparse. Now he was not scrawny on Sunday, so he must have tired to fly and without food and water, he was lucky he was found. We are in major heat wave of over 30C days for a week now. WE are not used to this and either are our birds.
Gord is feeding him up to get him stronger. He was running around in Gords yard
He more and likely will have to winter over.
S even thought, this did not work out, it was good for both. at this site, we knew if he came to ground, he would be found. there would be not much to hurt him.
on a good note , B73 came into nest looking for food yesterday afternoon . He looked good
here is video
I have to go and make it public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS3QWVefG00&t=54s