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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #190 on: October 10, 2019, 16:07 »
Oct 10, 2019

I guess Fiona's half brother Wingo likes it at the McKenzie site, I saw him on the building after work. :o  8)

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #188 on: October 06, 2019, 22:26 »
Fiona is definitely still in town - she was bowing to a male on the east side ledge this morning befor the rain began. Male didn't stay long but looked like Pip at a distance. Having said that, Hart is usually a late departed so can rule him out trying to get cozy with the new girl - it is sort of what he does i the spring and fall. He is nicely predictable that way. And always a gentlemen, he always comes to the ladies not vice versa.  We will have to see what happens next year with Fiona and Pip and with Hart.

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #187 on: October 01, 2019, 10:36 »
Haven't seen anybirdie on the west nest for a few days now - and Fiona, NEVER MIND the EAST side.  ::) - Hopefully if you come back next year, you'll nest on the WEST and we'll have a cam to watch you, and it'll be a good season of peregrine watching!!!  ;D

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #186 on: September 20, 2019, 15:02 »
Still at least one bird around...traveling through downtown at around 1:30 and a bird perched on the nestbox. No binos for better viewing  but would say it was a female.

Yup - it is Fiona - she's been checking on the work on the east side of the building  :)

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #185 on: September 20, 2019, 14:42 »
Still at least one bird around...traveling through downtown at around 1:30 and a bird perched on the nestbox. No binos for better viewing  but would say it was a female.

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #184 on: September 04, 2019, 18:30 »
Saw a birdie enjoying the sights on the west nest last evening. - Assume it was a kiddie as it looked brown.
Too bad it was another quiet summer at the Radisson.  :-\
Last year it was the good nest and no babies.
This year is was the bad nest and no cam to view there.
Plus no news about what happened to Princess.  :(
Hopefully next year there will be lots of action!  :D

No idea what happened to Princess after the spring fight - and wondered if she was the aggressor during the fall fight but no way to tell - cam was zoomed out too much.

With luck (and a little plotting on our part) we hope that whoever comes back next spring - Fiona (who was a worthy successor hard as it may be for me to admit) or Princess or someone entirely new - will find the west side nestbox more to their liking.  Fiona can't really be faulted, it was her first year here and there was a lot of necessary work on the building though they did try to schedule around the birds.  Next year should (knock on wood) be quieter we hope.

And Fiona's and Pip's kids have done well so far as we can tell.  Hopefully we will see them back again even if they are unbanded!

And your napper on the nestbox was likely Fiona - she's seems to back to the perch she favoured in the spring - which we hope is a good sign for next year :)

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #183 on: September 04, 2019, 15:20 »
Saw a birdie enjoying the sights on the west nest last evening. - Assume it was a kiddie as it looked brown.
Too bad it was another quiet summer at the Radisson.  :-\
Last year it was the good nest and no babies.
This year is was the bad nest and no cam to view there.
Plus no news about what happened to Princess.  :(
Hopefully next year there will be lots of action!  :D


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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #181 on: July 17, 2019, 17:35 »
:'( so very sad, do you know how the other chicks are?

They are so mobile now it is hard to keep track of them but when I saw them yesterday, they were fine.  Going to try to post a video clip of birds flying overhead - not very good, but not bad either!!
I'll attach the link to the tweet when here.

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #180 on: July 17, 2019, 16:33 »
 :'( so very sad, do you know how the other chicks are?

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #179 on: July 17, 2019, 01:35 »
you and yours deserve to know.  It is important enough.
Does not feel good at this point.  It’s disturbing actually.

It is likely the person who picked the bird up has no idea what it is or that it should be turned over to the provincial government. How many of us stop to pick up small creatures hit by cars, how many of us report individual birds that hit the windows of our homes?  What we know about, we do.  We know about peregrines, most of the world does not.    And if the bird was tossed in the garbage, it wouldn't be the first time in the history of the project and it was good of the person not to leave a dead creature on a public thoroughfare.  Most folks walk right past those things and assume someone else will deal with it.

And yes, it was just unfortunate that the folks who reported were unable to retrieve it but not their fault they don't travel with large plastic bags and have a freezer to put the body in until it could get picked up.  Most folks don't.  It is fortunate however that they reported it however otherwise we would never know even that much. 

And who knows what we may hear, the world is a funny place, sometimes things that seem impossible, aren't.

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #178 on: July 17, 2019, 01:06 »
you and yours deserve to know.  It is important enough.
Does not feel good at this point.  It’s disturbing actually.

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #177 on: July 16, 2019, 19:15 »
No news to date - have notified all sorts of folks in the downtown area and the government so perhaps someone will mention it, but just as likely, or maybe more likely, we won't hear anything ... mostly we find the chicks that die in town though admittedly over the years, some have probably slipped past us.  Once they get outside the City however, our chances of finding them should they run into problems is very small.  Kind of balances it out I guess.

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Re: Radisson - 2019 / Pip & Fiona
« Reply #176 on: July 16, 2019, 19:09 »
 :'(
Very sorry to hear a fledgling has died. 
I hope you are able to find him/her, TPC