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Offline dupre501

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #80 on: July 14, 2017, 23:37 »
She is at the Mohawk stage. ;D

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #79 on: July 14, 2017, 17:19 »
July 14 6:30 am

She still has quite a bit of fluff on her back.  :)







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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #78 on: July 14, 2017, 15:24 »
This chick is doing very well - no real rush to leave the nestbox which is unusual for a solo but which bodes well for her!!

Thanks for the photos RCF!!

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #77 on: July 14, 2017, 12:20 »
Thanks RCF! Nice pictures.

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #76 on: July 13, 2017, 18:33 »
Great shots, RCF! Thanks

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #75 on: July 13, 2017, 18:06 »
July 13 2017

6:30 am



4:15 pm









Mom & Dad across the street

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #74 on: July 10, 2017, 20:33 »
That is one gorgeous bird!

Thanks for the pics, RCF.

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #73 on: July 10, 2017, 20:11 »
July 10 2017






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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #72 on: July 09, 2017, 21:03 »

 if we can still slip in a banding we will, if not, we will wish her (yup, I think it is a female too) a nice, boring fledge in a few more weeks!

I think it's too late to band, the chick is 32 days old today.   ;D   Normally they are banded at three weeks old (21 days), is that not correct Tracy?

Banding can be anytime after 21 days old as that is when feet tend to be full grown - but we can band up until fledging.  We prefer the 21 to 25 days that way we are at least 10 days away from fledging for any males in the bunch.  As this chick is a female, she's still 10 days away from fledging likely but we don't want her to do anything stupid as we go up the ladder, so she'll likely stay bandless this year.

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #71 on: July 09, 2017, 15:32 »

 if we can still slip in a banding we will, if not, we will wish her (yup, I think it is a female too) a nice, boring fledge in a few more weeks!

I think it's too late to band, the chick is 32 days old today.   ;D   Normally they are banded at three weeks old (21 days), is that not correct Tracy?

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #70 on: July 09, 2017, 14:14 »
Looks like we likely won't be banding the lone chick at McKenzie Seeds this year - to be able to access the chicks safely for both the chick and for us, we need to have the whole team in place and unfortunately, two of our crew are working their ways through injury and illness, so I suspect that we will miss the window we need to band safely.  Not ideal, but it hasn't happened before in Brandon so I guess we were about due.  We've had to skip banding a few times elsewhere, but the Brandon trip is always so much fun that it seems we have always managed to pull it off.  RCF is keeping us supplied with photos of the tot (bit tot) and if we can still slip in a banding we will, if not, we will wish her (yup, I think it is a female too) a nice, boring fledge in a few more weeks!

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2017, 13:58 »
Great photos, thanks, RCF!

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #68 on: July 07, 2017, 00:18 »
Thanks for a look at Hurricane & Sol's huge chick......definitely well fed!  :)

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #67 on: July 06, 2017, 19:58 »
Thanks for the great photos RCF!    :)

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Re: McKenzie Seeds - 2017 / Sol & Hurricane
« Reply #66 on: July 06, 2017, 11:05 »
Nice photos RCF!

I'm placing my bet on female.  8)

That would be my guess also!   ;D