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Banding info from the site:

June 23rd: Banding only took about 1/2 hr., which incl. the weighing. As I suspected, we have one of each - male and female - the female weighs more. They are growing fast and are very feisty already and thus, very healthy. I took some pics and video, so hope to have that available via this site sometime soon. Stay tuned.

To access the live feed, click on 'live video' link above. You may need to 're-fresh' the link sometimes, so just go to the home page, then back and click on 'live video'. There are also occasional problems with connectivity, but for the most part, we now also have access for off-campus servers. The resolution is not the best, and when there is movement (as when mom/dad leaves or comes), then the camera has to re-focus. Hope to have a better set-up next season. I see that there is much discussion going on via a social network site on the livestream attached to this live video link (check out 'chat') - nice to see this interest in 'our' birds. We now also have sound! (as of June 20th) - thanks to Paul!

Looks as if they have been well fed since the banding; these pics are from a few minutes ago.

Don Mills

Thank you for the video of Harlequin's banding, SGB!

Here is another video:

Wow, look at those post banding crops! That's amazing.

Harlie is testing her wings....and my nerves...

Harlequin

can they put a big baby gate along the ledge

calgary

thanks for info and pictures. I remeber a few years ago the female wore a tracking device but it was removed when battery went dead. If this is same female.

Brampton

Milton and Truss have a chick! From the CPF site:

We have some great news to report today, in that we have been able to confirm that at least one egg at the Brampton courthouse has hatched! I was able to put Tracy from the CPF and Mark Heaton from the OMNR together today in an effort to make contact with the property manager from the Brampton Courthouse.

Both Tracy and Mark were able to meet late this afternoon in a unscheduled meeting at the Brampton Courthouse and able to speak with the property manager so that we could do a visual observation of the nest ledge to confirm the observations that we have been getting from Winston who has been diligently attending the site almost daily to provide us with observations reports of the happenings going on a the Brampton Courthouse nest site.

At around the 18th of June, the resident adults behaviour changed dramatically indicating that incubation had finished and brooding activity had started. While there was some gaps in the observations from June 15th to June 19th , the observation report filed on June 18th told a story of brooding activity as opposed to incubation activity and we knew that a hatch had happened.

The photos taken today - (June 23rd) of the single hatchling does gives us a hint of the age of the chick putting it at approx 8 to 13 days old as of June 23rd.

We are in the process of trying to work out banding possibilities with the property manager, the district office of the ministry of Natural resources and the Ministers office. In addition, we are looking into a dark window film covering that might be installed for the window that lies directly behind the nest ledge, as any human activity from this office window at this time can cause a huge stresses on the resident adult female and there is a risk of her killing or abandoning the nest site and the hatchling.

The property manager seems very eager, supportive and accommodating and equally excited about their peregrines.

Stay tuned……..

Red Deer

It is sad to see her still incubating: I know that in the past an egg hatched at another nest after 59 days of incubation, but I am sure that will not happen here.



She started e-chupping, then got up and left the nest:

I am just thrilled beyond words for Milton . And Matthew at Residential site will be just beaming.

Way to go Milton!!!!! You rock!!!

....and since I can never remember the name of this nest, I'll just say Quebec...

Red Deer

Checked the site as usual; the eggs were gone, and there was a little bit of white fluff in one corner. Checked the other cam - and there are two foster chicks! They were not there yesterday.

Mom fed them and then settled down in the nest with them, looking very proud.

Trying to post pics, but they won't post. Don't know if it's Photobucket or the forum, but all of a sudden it will not post images.

I was hoping this would happen. I was not sure, but there was an indication.

I will try and get picutres Alison.

Alison made the discovery and here they are. you can barely make out 2

this is what it said above chat. they name their chicks there



Edited to add:
How would we like to go to bed pregnant and wake up with teenagers

Red Deer

The pics the forum would not let me post earlier:

Great picutres Alison.

by tomorrow , they will all be used to each other.

REd Deer

The boys were full of energy but mom cozied up to them the best she could