West Winnipeg - 2012 / Beau & Jules

[dupre501]

Yesterday evening, just before 8 p.m.:
My husband and I were in the area, he was driving, so we decided to check things out. Started at the diner and there was one falcon there. Yeah... I saw a falcon. Proceeded to the bleachers and spotted one there. Stopped to watch that one for a few minutes. Then the other one showed up. Two falcons at one location...yeah got to see both at same time. They were chupping at each other, but we had to continue where we were headed to. So as we were pulling away, there was a sudden flurry of wings, I'm whipping my head back to try to see what was going on. Canoodling, that's what was going on. But by the time my husband stopped, it was all over...but I still got to see more than I bargained for.

[susha]

Lucky you, Dupre!

[photosbydennis]

Wow...and I thought Canoodling was a made up word    I just call it (      )
See, never to old to learn.

[ballywing]

It's a good word, has a nice ring to it -  and they can Canoodle at the bleachers all they want but pleeeeeeeease do not lay the eggs there!!! 

[dupre501]

Took another drive round WW today. At 6:00 p.m. there was one bird at the Bleachers. The bird was doing some preening and lifted their right leg to clean their talon. Spotted the red band so ... it was Beau. Decided to see if we could find Jules, found her at the Tower. At first she was sitting looking around, but then she dropped to the platform and started/continued working on her dinner.

About 7 p.m. we swung again and spotted both birds on the Diner, in their respective corners.

I'm glad I started carrying my binoculars in my purse

[Liz]

TPC, is it not possible to move the nestboxes to a place you feel is more suitable, maybe this autumn? 

[dupre501]

I seem to recall TPC saying there are several nest boxes in WW.

The problem is whether the falcons choose to use them or not. Much like the years Trey and Princess chose the east ledge rather than the west nest box.

[The Peregrine Chick]

TPC, is it not possible to move the nestboxes to a place you feel is more suitable, maybe this autumn? 

That's exactly what we thought Liz!  And yes, we have boxes in suitable places and she knows about them, they have both been in them and both made scrapes in them but she wants what she wants.  We have been trying to gain access to prevent her from accessing the site at all, but no luck so far and I'm afraid but I think we may be out of time and we will just have to let them get on with laying eggs (if they haven't already started).

[allikat]

Drat!  Jules is killling me....   Guess, she's doing that to all of us! 

[Liz]

TPC, is it not possible to move the nestboxes to a place you feel is more suitable, maybe this autumn? 

That's exactly what we thought Liz!  And yes, we have boxes in suitable places and she knows about them, they have both been in them and both made scrapes in them but she wants what she wants. 

I guess I meant, take out the unsuitable ones.  

[The Peregrine Chick]

Earth Day as mentionned on the Radisson thread was spent tending to our peregrine charges, but Beau and Jules were totally absent when we went to see them and it wasn't until we'd been by at least one more time that they were suddenly where they should be.  Both of them, so that means that Jules doesn't appear to be incubating yet.  Tried to access a camera we left hooked up "just in case" (its always "just in case" with these two  ) but we had all but one piece of technical wizardry, no fault of Eye-Spy's however, Dennis and I hadn't recalled all the things we did during take-down last fall, so. we'll have to make another trip at some point to see if/what we can see.

Dennis did get some very pretty shots of the two of them together though ...

[allikat]

I'm pretty sure the project is trying to remove all the unsuitable nests.....it's this darn Jules!  She's a little bit of a "bird"..... She, Jules, cetainly loves the "attention". 

[bccs]

I had an appointment in west Winnipeg today and managed to swing buy the bleachers and the diner. No sign of birdies at either location.

[allikat]

Hope your appointment went well....too bad you didn't manage to see any birdies.....

[bccs]

Thanks Alli, maybe tomorrow , another appointment then, we'll see