loza wrote:
Catharina Kerk Nl
I was sorry,05/28 8.34 am this morning, that the sick young is dead, lies in the nest, and is consumed by the brothers. One is just eating his wing That is not correct loza. The sick eyas fell off the platform yesterday evening. Could be it died at that moment and fell.
This is from the Peregrinus forum whose administrators are intensively involved with these and other falcon nests (translated with Google) :
Piet wrote:
Perhaps a little explanation about our reflections on this falcon to date:
On 19 May we noticed that something was wrong with him, and our conclusion was immediately "the yellow"
This was immediately confirmed by Peter van Geneijgen.
Looking back at the images, we could see that the first symptoms (then minimal) were visible from 10 May.
On May 19, the situation for the falcon was so bad that healing would not be possible.
We have of course looked at whether we could possibly take the falcon out of the cupboard, but that was too great a risk for the other falcons.
In the meantime, they were all on the roster and certainly not so far that they could fly.
Opening the nest box could cause 3 healthy falcons to jump down with all the consequences that that entails.
Because we knew that the sick falcon had been infected for at least 10 days, and that there were no signs of "yellow" at all, we decided to opt for the safety of the other youngsters and not to intervene. (Also a difficult decision for us, but we thought it was the best choice at the time)
We had expected that the sick falcon would not live long, and therefore decided when he would die we would see if the time was there to remove the falcon from the cupboard.
To our great surprise, however, the sick falcon remained alive, partly due to the very caring mother who continued to feed him small pieces and had a lot of patience with him.
Then the moment came when the others left.
The moment when it would be possible to try to remove the sick falcon from the nest box.
But unfortunately it took too long before the 3rd falcon flew out so that the first 2 came back in the nest box.
Occasionally the falcon was alone in the cupboard or on the rack, but usually he sat on the rack when he was alone.
A problem is that if he is on the roster, is unreachable for us, so this again caused problems.
In short, it was almost impossible to remove the sick falcon from the nest box without endangering the other healthy falcons.
However, we did not expect that he would jump off the grid like he did tonight.
He did this all by himself, was certainly not (accidentally) pushed away by his brothers.
From the reaction of his brothers, he goes almost straight down.
Logical, falcon had no condition at all, was very weakened and his feather growth had stopped altogether, as a result of which his feathers / wings were not yet fully grown.
So he probably made a big fall, and the chance that he didn't survive that fall is considerable.
It has already been sought from the church whether he has fallen to the ground somewhere, but we have not yet been able to find him.
Chances are that he is somewhere on top of the church.
Tomorrow we are going to look there, but the honesty tells us that there is a good chance that he ended up in an unreachable place.
If we find him, and he is in an accessible place, we will remove him there so that no other birds (peregrine falcons / crows / magpies / chews) will pluck him.
We want to prevent this disease from spreading further.
However, if he is found in an unreachable place, then we cannot help but leave him.
Well and if we can't find it, it will of course stop completely.
I hope everyone understands that we have tried to do the best for the entire nest, hence this explanation.
In retrospect it is of course always easy to say that it should have been different.
And of course we could have noticed it earlier.
But afterwards it is all easy to say, the fact is that no one has noticed it before, perhaps partly due to our holiday on Lesvos.
Let's hope the other 3 will live a long and healthy life.