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Just love love love Rains marks

I have only been seeing Hurricane, Brooklyn and Rain since the second of September. I hope Rosser has migrated or just hiding where I can't see him.

Rain flying to the Scotia building





Rain on McKenzie roof after he chased and caught a pigeon after leaving the Scotia building

Thank you Beth

Brandon
Information about the transmitter equipped juvenile falcons in a local paper in Manitoba
http://www.westmanjournal.com/article/2 ... er-neepawa



I read this article and clicked on view more images, which brings up a picture of of juvenile peregrine which Dennis has been given credit for taking in Brandon. The caption for the picture says....
Seemingly unimpeded by the small transmitter on its back, this two-and-a-half-month-old peregrine male soars high above the Brandon skyline, returning to its roof top hack site to feed on Japanese quail, which was provided to simulate its natural food in the wild. Similarly GPS equipped for satellite tracking, the four peregrine falcons released in Neepawa were a common sight over the town this summer.


I did not know Hurricane and Brooklyn were feeding Rain and Rosser Japanese quail from a hack box. I guess the writer has the Brandon birds mixed up with the Neepawa birds. Just like a reporter to get the facts wrong.


And here is a bit of an update on the birds............ Information given to TPC by student Isabel Martinez-Welgan and posted on Sept 27th on our forum.
Rain & Rosser left about September 20th and a couple of days later, one had just reached South Dakota (Rain since RCF/Carolyn saw him on/about the 17th), the other (Rosser?) had hit the Nebraska border. Their movements are fast and straight-line and they will be on the wintering grounds shortly at this rate.


For those who are keeping a map of the USA by their computer keyboards this migration season, the Brandon chicks are both in Arkansas at the moment though not together - one is just about at the Arkansas-Texas or Arkansas-Lousiana border. Sorry, I don't know which is which, just their general locations ...

Another update from TPC on Oct 6th
Sorry, meant to add - straight line distance from Brandon to the middle of Arkansas (riough average for both birds) is 1780km. Looks like they left on September 20th so that is about 17 days of flying so averaged is about 100km/day - about the same distance, straight line from Winnipeg straight south to the US border, Brandon to the US border is about 90km straight line. They probably have actually travelled further than that in their wanderings and I don't know the exact start/end dates for these readings, but it does give us all a rough average for interest sake. It is likely that some days the birds flew more, others when they just hung out hunting or resting or avoiding poor weather.

From Oct 18th
Most recent report is that around the 14th one of the Brandon males was over open water in the Gulf of Mexico about 90km offshore south of New Orleans. So looks like he's taking the direct route to Central America. The transmitter on the other bird has been offline since Arkansas but they are hoping it will come back online soon. And yes, transmitters stop working for mechanical reasons all the time unfortunately. I believe one of the Alberta resident males (Weber?) had his transmitter fail in the last few months ...

I sure hope both boys are doing alright and I guess we may or may not really know what happens if the transmitter never comes back on line. I would like to think he bit through the strap and the transmitter fell off.

Thanks for those updates, Carolyn. I'm with you on wishing for the straps to fail.

Here is the update from today

One of the Brandon chicks decided to take the water route - was 90km offshore south of New Orleans a week and a bit ago and there was no land in sight under/near him. He made it to shore in southern Mexico and is doing a wee bit of sightseeing in the area.

The other Brandon chick's transmitter is offline and has been off for a couple of weeks. Transmitters are notorious for malfunctioning and the hope is that it will come back online on its own. Could also be that the chick has run into trouble except that he was in a pretty safe location when the transmitted fizzt (technical term). Haven't had any reports, so the Rule applies, "no news is good news".

First, we have no transmitters on birds right now. Well we may have one or tow on our hacked birds but I will have to ask Gord.

but our Genesse female dropped her transmitter 2 years ago. We also had a young male years ago from Red Deer river that dropped his pack. And the transmitters did not come on line for them to even know where the transmitter was. Which meant that the transmitters failed also.



that you are getting transmissions from one is great news.

Transmitters can fail. It is a common thing and this does not mean anything is wrong with the young .peregrine. As a matter of fact, if the transmitter was working, it would track him, good or bad. So no news is good news.

Good luck to them both.

Thanks for the encouraging words Bev

Well, I think they are doing the same thing next year with putting transmitters on the juvies again. I think the agreement with the researcher was for a couple years.