Hi Philip,
I didn't see the episode, but I do usually love Bondi Vet! :)
I'll be catching up on it sometime this week. Here's a link to the episode for anyone else who missed it:
Hopefully we can work out what they were talking about with the falcons! I think people are able to make contact via the FaceBook page, too.
Cheers,
Laura
From: Philip Veerman
Sent: Sunday, 24 November 2013 11:35 PM
To: ; 'COG Chatline'
Subject: [canberrabirds] Peregrine Falcons on Bondi VET (Channel 10 TV)
I saw bits of this story yesterday in between other things but I couldn't work out what was supposed to be happening. He had a family of Peregrine Falcons that were nesting in some building in Sydney, that were supposedly having
some problems (that I missed hearing what he thought that was) but then he had two clearly young birds (by their plumage) taken from there that looked like they were probably about to fledge. The story seemed to me to be that he thought these two were the
adult breeding pair, which they clearly weren't (both showing all the features of juvenal plumage) and that something was wrong with them, but they looked fine. Then when looking in the nest site he couldn't work out where the chicks were (but he had them
in a box). The footage also cut away to what were clearly the adults flying around the nest site as they normally do. So I was lost as to the message he was trying to tell. It seemed completely wonky to me. He seemed surprised that these two birds seemed reluctant
to fly but it makes sense that they probably had never flown before. Did anyone who saw this make better sense of it than I did? Of course there is no mechanism that I can see to send this message to the show.
Philip
