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Happy belated birthday to our

Permalink Submitted by Jill from MN on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 09:05

Happy belated birthday to our Kestrels' best friend. God bless you! :)

Hi, We have been studing

Permalink Submitted by Nu-Sun Cinema on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 07:53

Hi Terrifla,

We have been studing American Kestrel Falcons for 8 years now and have been involved with the Kestrel Partnership for 4 years. Our Kestrels are back and in courtship, copulation mode. We have had HD Live streams of our nest boxes for 3 years and will start when our first egg is laid. Link to http://www.nu-sun.com/html/kestrel_korner.html There is information and video on Kestrels on this dedicated page that your students may find interesting. Feel free to explore our web site. Please let us know if you go on the Kestrel page. The Partnership will be happy to let you know who we are.

We love to share our experiences & studies.

Thank you,

Kim & Rick

Nu-Sun Cinema

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Thank you kindly :D

Permalink Submitted by Delorahilleary on Wed, 04/05/2017 - 12:39

Thank you kindly :D

The kids in my class were so

Permalink Submitted by TerriFla on Wed, 04/05/2017 - 11:29

The kids in my class were so excited to see the 3 eggs! They can now tell the male and female apart too. Exciting times!

Happy Birthday Delora! I hope

Permalink Submitted by TerriFla on Wed, 04/05/2017 - 04:25

Happy Birthday Delora! I hope you have a wonderful day! Thanks for all you do!

It's a possibility! I'm going

Permalink Submitted by Delorahilleary on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 15:11

It's a possibility! I'm going to attempt to lurk and spot the female with binoculars when she leaves the box at some point - I want to try to read the band. (Assuming I'm not seeing things and just imagining the possible band on her ankle!)

could it be one of the

Permalink Submitted by TerriFla on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 15:09

could it be one of the hatchlings from last year with the band?

Hello! Thanks for the kind

Permalink Submitted by Delorahilleary on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 14:32

Hello! Thanks for the kind words! We're thrilled to have you back!

It's often hard to say. Kestrels, like many raptors, will attempt to return to a nesting spot year after year if the nest was successful before. However, nest site competition is intense with kestrels! Males arrive from migration first to scope out a good place and coax a female to join him. If a male tries to come back and gets chased out, that makes for a pair reshuffling.

My guess this is a different pair this year, and I believe I spotted a band on the female's right ankle. I'm trying to get a good look now to confirm. Neither of the adults last year were banded.

-D

Hi Delora. We are very

Permalink Submitted by LSW on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 13:05

Hi Delora. We are very appreciative of all your hard work! We watched every day last season and are happy to start watching another one. Is this the same pair that was in the box last year??

It's probably a good thing

Permalink Submitted by Nu-Sun Cinema on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 06:35

It's probably a good thing that she will lay no more eggs. We have had the same situation where a 5th egg was laid 5 days after the other 4 and did not hatch way after the other 4 had hatched. The other 4 chicks were so large when the 5th hatched that no.5 had no chance of feeding due to being bullied by the 4. No.5 did not make it. A tipical cluch is 5 eggs but there have been situations of less.

See our updates on our KESTREL KORNER link to http://www.nu-sun.com/html/kestrel_korner.html

our HD live stream will start when 1st egg is laid. Thank you, Nu-Sun Cinema

I updated the Nest News tab

Permalink Submitted by Delorahilleary on Mon, 04/03/2017 - 14:30

I updated the Nest News tab with a bit of information on the current behavior we're witnessing!
-D

:) I'll be gone most of the

Permalink Submitted by TerriFla on Sun, 04/02/2017 - 06:42

:) I'll be gone most of the day, so she will probably lay the 3rd egg today. :)

Fair warning to fellow report

Permalink Submitted by Shauna on Sat, 04/01/2017 - 16:10

Fair warning to fellow report submitters: I sometimes make mistakes. The image is often fuzzy and the colours hard to dilineate, so my main errors are distinguishing male and female birds. I make other mistakes too...but I'm trying to improve!