Whoops, I knew I'd get something wrong if I posted. The "new bird" I
mentioned is a 2 year old, not a one year old, and so for, has not been
present today.
Laura Paulson
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Laura Paulson <laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The Yaquina Head peregrine nest has been mentioned a couple of times
lately and, though there are many more expert than me on the subject, I've
been on the scene for the past 10 days and I thought I would chime in.
There is much drama in the Yaquina Head peregrine eyrie this year. The
genetic father of the young disappeared sometime around egg laying. This
was before I arrived so I'll defer details to those more knowledgeable
except to say the male parent feeding now is not genetically related to the
chicks. Shortly after we arrived, the female parent disappeared as well.
The adoptive dad continues to feed the chicks though food is hastily
dropped off, unplucked and without the beak-to-beak feeding that was done
with the chicks at this stage last year. The nestlings seem to be able to
deal with that okay.
Yesterday's "fledgling" did not likely leave the nest intentionally. Chuck
Philo and I found it out of the nest yesterday morning about 7:30am and
nobody witnessed how it got there. There is a pretty steady human vigil
below the eyrie and nobody has witnessed the out-of-the-nest chick being
fed. This was true again at the 8:30am feeding today.
There is another new bird (believed to be a one-year old) on the scene at
times. It appears small and does not seem interested in the eyrie, nor has
it been observed soliciting copulation or other pair-bonding behaviors from
the male. Still, the male doesn't appear aggressive toward it and we hope
it might be a female that would take on parenting duties. It is easier to
hope than face the possibility of watching chick starvation.
Laura Paulson
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Range Bayer <range.bayer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
This morning (6/9), Wayne Hoffman reported that Chuck Philo saw that
"one of the Yaquina Head Peregrine chicks has fledged."
Range Bayer
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