Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Alcoa Anglesea Banding day
Banding slideshow
Today the 3 eyases were banded. Around 09:30 we saw people in front of the cam taking the nestlings out to bring them to the ground. No doubt Sheila was flying and cacking and absolutely on battle station! Havoc however stayd at the nestsite and lokked up to her and down to his eyases. Male peregrines always react a lot calmer than the females on bandings.
For Sheila no doubt her worst nightmare came true! Her kids were stolen! That means into battle to attack and get her kids back! That is what it is all about. This cacking and attacking. It is complete and total war against the intruders.
After about an hour the 3 nestlings were brought back. They seemed to be pretty impressed. As soon as the banders were gone, Sheila came in to check if all heads were on board and left. She must have felt like the battlewinner! After all she managed to force the intruders to bring the chicks back and she even succeeded in them to leave her territory. Victorie! An enormous boost of her ego. That is what happened from her point of few!
After banding the nestlings stayed put and did not move. They were very impressed by it all. But things went soon back to normal.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Alcoa Anglesea: tomorrow bandingday
The 3 chicklets will be banded on Thursday!
Monday October 27, 2008
Thursday is banding day. Between 9 - 10AM EST researchers from the Victorian Peregrine Project will travel up to the nest box to retrieve the chicks for their health assessment and banding.
Each year we have a tradition to name the new falcon chicks. Now that our birds have gone global, we're asking those watching over the world wide web for nominations. If you would like to nominate a name, please email us with your nomination, whether it is suitable for male or female and what the name means to you.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Alcoa Anglesea
SLIDESHOW PART 1
SLIDESHOW PART 2
The 2 Alcoa nestlings are doing great. They look so very fat and fine! They do get a lot to eat. Today it was 7 times they were offered a long feeding by either parent. Sheila brought in a freshly caught prey. I'm sure the 3 eyases were screaming very load when she came in!
From the size difference between the 3 nestlings I think we just might have 1 girl and 2 boys overhere.
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