MISC. CANADIAN NESTS ~ 2010

SusanE · **Posted:** Fri Jul 02, 2010 6:37 pm

The CPF Raptor ID site has a nice chart and there it states that black/green bands are used in "Midwest United States" and black/red bands are used in "Eastern United States."

Like catwoman I'd be interested in a description of his plumage.

Edit: I just did a search of the Midwest database asking for all males with b/g bands starting with "8". There were only two results with the single digit of 8 on top. They are:

8/*W ~ Name: Rhymer ~ fledge date: 6/29/99 from Sheboygan, WI

8/*K ~ Name: Fargo ~ fledge date: 7/13/01 from Fargo, ND

SusanE · **Posted:** Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:05 am

carly, do the Rochester ladies say that their bands were black over green back then? Or black over red? It will be so fun to find out who this guy is. :spingirl:

kittenface · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 10:03 pm

U of Calgary has a cam and 3 very loud and fiesty chicks

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/u-of-calgary-peregrines

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:23 am

Thanks, KF. I've added it to the cam links page. :smilesun:

Alison · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:31 pm **Posts:** 2776

Red Deer

The chicks are getting big:

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:22 pm

Calgary--Kitten is right, they're very noisy!

REENIE · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:57 pm **Posts:** 19893

AWE, THEY STILL HAVE SOME WHITE FLUFFIES CATWOMAN, THANKS FOR POINTING ME TO THE LINK.

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:07 pm

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:36 pm

Calgary

They're all there now! :dancinggirls:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 61947

Very cool....thanks for the link to the Calgary nest, KF!!!

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:16 pm

Rapidcitymbfan at Manitoba wrote this today about the Calgary nest
I e-mailed a lady from the Peregrine Falcon Home Page about the adults
and she replied to me. I was hoping for a little more,
but who am I........ just a crazy Falcon Phanatic

It's always nice and gratifying to hear from people outside the
campus and Alberta re the falcons.

The adult female is the same one we've had for several years now
(as mentioned in my web page), and she was initially bred in Balzac
(close to Calgary), which has a breeding facility.
The male has not yet been identified (this is harder than people realize,
as you might know). The young ones are very keen right now
- if you do watch the video and put up the sound,
they are very vocal and one or more pick away at the camera
and the loudspeaker, so I am always anxious if they will completely
cut us off one day. I have had to re-adjust the camera a
couple of times already, and hope that next year we'll have
better equipment. We had to scramble this year to get
something in place before they arrived, and got used stuff
from all over.

Our ledge is very out-of-the-way, but I have access to it via
a mechanical room adjacent to it. The public can't get close at all,
but there are vantage points from various bldgs. and windows.

Next major step: first flights next week - a very tense time for me,
as last year we lost the female due to an accident.
Hopefully this year will be better.
The larger (slightly) of the 3 chicks is the female, and the boys
tend to hang out together.
Have fun on your side there too!!

I love what I do, even after so many years!

Elli

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:22 pm

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:22 pm

A very noisy feeding is taking place now!

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:55 pm

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:31 pm

Nice pics, Kitten! :buzzybee:

catwoman · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:02 pm

Calgary

obxbarb · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:21 pm

Beautiful spot for a falcon nest!

Alison · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:31 pm **Posts:** 2776

Red Deer

The chicks have very little white down left, and they are getting restless:

SusanE · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:10 pm

Thanks for those shots, Alison. The coloring from that cam is pretty weird.

Alison · **Joined:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:31 pm **Posts:** 2776

SusanE wrote:

Thanks for those shots, Alison. The coloring from that cam is pretty weird.

The cam coloring is strange . . . but the chicks are cute.

They just shared a meal - and they were sharing equally, until the largest chick decided to take over.

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