FT. WAYNE, IN - AEP FALCONS: January-July, 2011

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:34 am

kittenface wrote:

FOSTER EGGS
THEY DESERVE EGGS EVEN IF THEY AREN'T THEIR OWN

That would be so great! :flirty:

Mick · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:09 pm

Foster eggs! :egg6:

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:33 pm

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:51 pm

Mick wrote:

Foster eggs! :egg6:

They've done that successfully in other countries. In Sweden, the male & female at a nest were brother & sister, so they went thru several years of no chicks, then they started taking their eggs and exchanging them for some fertilized eggs, & they got babies! In Canada they have fostered chicks out when the natural parents were killed or seriously injured & had great success with that! Falcons make wonderful foster parents! :flirty:

This has been coming up every year when other nests have eggs & Freedom & Roosevelt don't.

But you probably knew all this, Mick, & were just laughing at the terminology! :egg9:

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:27 pm

The Poland Falcons lost their baby and they put a chick in for them tpo foster last year or maybe the year before Hanny or PKIN could answer that

catwoman · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:12 pm

kittenface wrote:

The Poland Falcons lost their baby and they put a chick in for them tpo foster last year or maybe the year before Hanny or PKIN could answer that

That's right, I remember that! I think that was last year. It would be great if there were some kind of program to take chicks from nests where there obviously isn't enough food (like San Jose last year), & foster them out to nests that don't have chicks or maybe only have one.

Mick · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:03 pm

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

Roosevelt in the box today:

Freedom and Roosevelt have not had eggs for three years now, but they had already made a huge contribution to the recovery of the peregrine population. They have such a strong, complex bond; it goes far beyond raising chicks together.

catwoman · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:41 am

Thanks for the pic of Roosevelt & your comments, Alison! Yes, this is one very special pair! :flirty:

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:54 am

catwoman · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:53 pm

Thanks, Kitten! He's looking kinda ferocious! :egg7:

Mick · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:12 pm

Beautiful Roosevelt

ljames · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:29 pm

Thanks for the nice pictures. I checked in a couple of times today and saw somebody (Roosevelt, I think) standing right in the middle of the little bowl. :loveheart2:

I guess nature has it's way and they are too old to raise young, but they sure look as though they prepare all the same each year. They are truly special.

PeSSouZiX · **Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:37 pm

Yes they are cute :cloudnine:

Do you know how old they might have ?

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:49 am

PeSSouZiX wrote:

Yes they are cute :cloudnine:

Do you know how old they might have ?

Pess, Freedom is 17 this year, & Roosevelt is 16. Roosevelt is younger than Kinney at Indy, who is 17, & certainly younger than Sir James at James River Bridge who was 20 last year & still fathered chicks, but not many females in the wild live as long as Freedom! :smile:

Mick · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:25 pm

Truly special Ljames :egg8:

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

Love seeing them together, Mick! I was just about to post the same pic, so I'll post the pics before and after yours.

Roosevelt waiting for Freedom:

He left, she stayed for a minute or two:

catwoman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:30 pm

Thanks for the wonderful pictures! My heart just melts when I see them in there together! :flirty:

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:14 pm

catwoman · **Posted:** Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:50 pm

There's our girl! Thanks, Kitten! :egg5:

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