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we had 4 chicks hatch here.JUne2- 4 for sure, one passed before banding. We think , once again because of heat. Janice helped a lot at this site as we cannot be everywhere.
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F- N75- stayed ; M- E56 - to hack : M- E 68- to hack
N75 was doing well, and we developed a good repor with construction workers, who immediately called when she came low on building south of nest box . Peter and Janice and I kept tabs on her, in shifts. On Peters watch , she eventually took off over his head and he cloud not run fast enough lol. to keep up, but knew her direction , which should be box roof. I drove down , and Peter and I went up to mall across street , and saw adult female flying over nest building with prey in talon. Instantly, we heard that sweet sound of Missy calling. There she was , on the top of nest box building, and mom dropped off prey. we stayed for awhile and watched her have a good feed and then lay down.we went to do another shift at U of A.
A few days later, Janice checked on her in morning and all was well. Then we got the call from construction, she was down, She hit part of building and was on ground. ( not sure why, as she had strong flight when Peter saw her) I think heat a factor ,or she may have pulled a muscle landing on nest building a few days before.) So off I go and Janice met me there. Peter came in from where he was and only 2 allowed, as Covid, so he and Janice did rescue. We took her to rehab ,as it was obvious she was hurt, in some way. It was touch and go for her for about a week. She could not move and was not eating. She had a bad concussion. We have very good rehab and they gave her time. Her brothers were flying up a storm at Pembina , so we wanted to get her there.
Then a break through , she was up and eating; baby steps. Finally ready for release. Gord picked her up but gave her more time. She did well at Pembina. our prayers were answered.
unfortunately adults had no one left , but they did have our missy for awhile
We always check up on our adults often and they did fine. AS with Radisson and Chase , they looked for her for a few days and then went on as usual.
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WE had 4 eggs here ,but only 2 hatched.
We have the best adults here. love, love them.
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Emyrauld and I monitored this site closely. Cams were poo but we took shifts. Peter and I made several visits down to site. Not a good site to observe from.
These 2 young females were very active, after a bit. They had a good site where they could get out of sun, so heat did not affect them much. Just after 5 on June 30, was last we saw 2 .
We feared that in a food fight, one may have fallen off ledge. Cam is so bad that we would see only see certain places. cam got worse as season went on. But we had hoped she may have had enough strength to make it to low building, but at best only 35 days old . We just watched the action of adults.
evening of july 8 , other youngster fledged. just by what I was seeing. at least 42 days old . she was strong
Peter and I finally had time to make another trip down. it broke my heart to find body of N79, first chick to leave ledge. It was dead on road in front of nest box. Never made it . must have just fallen straight down.
From what we seeing of adults on cam and adults actions when we went down town, we felt , other youngster was on a roof close by.
july12- we went down again and were thrilled to find N85 on the roof a building on a side street, not as High as i would like, but if she was smart , when would go east and be o.k.
Downtown Edmonton is murder on our young.
july14- OMG youngster made it to ledge . so excited and from that day on, she terrorized the adults LOL It was wonderful seeing her progress and make it roof of box and hen chase adults off roof and perches. she owned the place .
We went down and saw her in action .It was wonderful and to see her on the cam was awesome. As I said Cam was not good, and could not see very much but before it moved and we could barely see ledge at all, we saw her at lest till August 27. I have a feeling she was there longer but could not longer see much.
she was strong ad did well
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California Condor news: Iniko to be released into the wild soon and it will be broadcast live. Unfortunately, Eva will not ever be released into the wild d/t a back injury.
Many thanks for the hatching news...
Gigi, we have a new link for the IWS cams and chat:
