June 10, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
What we believe to be our male chick is very anxious and jumping from one side of the ledge to the other flapping it’s wings very hard for longer and longer periods of time each time. The female is much larger and darker she is flapping too but she is obviously on a different time line than the male chick.
Males usually as a rule fledge or fly first and this would support our call on the male and female. Jerry you are the best you’re killin me with all these great shots!!!
A very special thanks to all of our volunteers. we need all the help we can get. Please anyone else if you are in this area come down and talk to the friendly volunteers, they’ll tell you how you can help.
IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO GET INVOLVED!!
You guys that are on watch are the best. It is an honor to work with such a great caring staff of volunteers. We are close to lift off.
Dennis and Gwenster and our falcon crazy crew!!!!
Special note look at their crop or food pouch just bellow their throats. Every shot they are very well fed indeed!!!
Posted on June 12, 2009 9:33 am
June 10, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
A couple of shots that focus on our dedicated mother Voltaire! What a great job she ran off a rogue female that threatened our family tranquility.
She is working very hard. The adults are now trying to help the young gain independence by making them rip apart their own food flying in the nest with food and then back out to entice the young to look outside there ledge world. D&G Chick shots to follow.
Posted on June 12, 2009 8:42 am
June 11, 2009 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Matt MacGillivray Reports:
If you have photos of any of the CPF monitored nest sites, birds or fledglings in this exciting time, we would love to see them! If you have older photos or videos from CPF events, like the 2009 Sportsman show, we would love to see those too.
We’ve got a flickr group that you can upload photos and short videos to. If you have longer videos, upload them to youtube and tag them with cpf and peregrine and I will find them.
Example shot from the Sheraton Banding in the Flickr Pool -
We might include some of the videos or photos in our updates, or around the site. You could be famous!
Matt.
Posted on June 11, 2009 10:29 am
June 09, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
We were trying to imagine what it is like when a chick takes it’s first flight.
The pictures below are the only world our chicks have ever seen from their nest ledge. This is their window on the world. They don’t know what is around the corner or behind the back of their nest. Imagine when they fly off the ledge and into the big world and realize there is a river a huge bridge behind them WOW!!! We are counting the days till the try to fly
Posted on June 9, 2009 3:59 pm
June 09, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
What a beautiful morning down at the nest site. Feedings were going on from 6:30 and more food catered in at 6:55.
The chicks are basicaly the same size as the adults now!!
Isn’t that hard to believe!??
Anyone that is interested in helping to watch or spot please come down to the bridge and we can go over orientation and don’t feel you don’t know enough all we need is willing watchers and what a sight to watch!!
We will have teams all day spotting during this first flight time. I hope to post more pictures tonight.
Hope to see you tonight or tomorrow or the next day. We would like to thank all the spotters so far but we welcome more help.
thank you from the team!!!!!!
Posted on June 9, 2009 12:34 pm
June 07, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
Big day Sunday. Mark Nash and all of us under the bridge in Windsor. Just bring yourself and some binoculars if you’ve go them. we are getting ready for these little beauties to fly.
Jerry told me he would dis own me if i didn’t post these after he worked so hard on them. Thank you Jerry.
These pictures are in a larger format so you can let us know what you think of this format.
Dennis and Gwenster
Posted on June 7, 2009 12:47 am
June 06, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
You can see the huge diference in the chicks today. It looks like a flight training school up there with all the flapping going on. They are looking so grown up. Did your hear the Grand Parents tear in my eye “They grow up so quickly”!!
Great to see everyone coming down to the bridge to have a look. Come out and help spot while they fledge. Don’t think that you can’t help you can.
Look at these little faces!
Jerry sorry for the delay on posting. you won’t have to disown me after all!!! Great job
Dennis and Gwenster.
Posted on June 6, 2009 10:59 pm
May 30, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
Sorry these pictures were taken on the 30th. of May. The next batch will show you the remarkable growth rate.
These pictures are in a larger format.
This is also when we knew we wouldn’t be able to band. The birds were too old and the risk of them jumping was too high.
Stay tuned for todays shots.
Dennis and Gwenster.
Posted on June 6, 2009 10:40 pm
June 06, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
Update Mark Nash will be under the bridge on Sunday
MEETING UNDER THE BRIDGE FOR VOLUNTEERS SUNDAY @ 4:00.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT HOW LITTLE OR HOW MUCH TIME YOU CAN DEVOTE JUST BE THERE. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO BE INVOLVED IN THE SUCCESS OF THIS FLEDGE!!!!!
Everything is moving so quickly we don’t have time to breath, The chicks are now huge and have lost 70% of their downie feathers. They are looking like adults and getting very dark. The growth and change at this point is absolutely phenomenally remarkable!
For all you folks who wanted to help out be there. Oh and don’t worry about how much or little you know Rome was built how? “One brick at a time”.
Dennis and Gwenster
Posted on June 6, 2009 3:27 pm
May 26, 2009 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
I wanted to post these shots. These are the guys behind the great shots that we continue to post.
Jason, Jerry we can’t thank you enough for your dedication and help. You are great supporters of the peregrines and CPF.
A special Thank You from us two.
Dennis and Gwen
Posted on May 26, 2009 2:13 pm
