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Thursday April 29, 2004
Tracy Simpson reports: Got some shots after almost an hour this morning. Daddy was late with the groceries.

Wednesday April 28, 2004
Tracy Simpson reports: I have finally caught Angel off the nest and was able to snap this photo from the CPF web cam at 7:00AM this morning. The photo clearly shows at least two white fluffy chicks in the nest tray.

Monday April 26, 2004
Fraser Shuttleworth reports: 3:25 PM - Saw Marco driving a Red Tailed Hawk along eastward along Bloor. Marco was wheeling and diving, screaming the entire time and the poor hawk was doing its best to get out of the area asap. Last time I saw them Marco had driven it right by the worst possible spot, the nest sight, so I assume Angel joined in immediately after.

Monday April 26, 2004
Mark Nash reports: A hatch!

Many thanks to Mary-Helen Armour who was kind enough to snap a good photo of the Etobicoke nest and capture a good photo of at least two of the chicks visible on the nest tray. thank you Mary-Helen!! Congratulations Etobicoke, Marco and Angel!!

Thursday April 22, 2004
Mark Nash reports: A rare opportunity for me to catch Angel off the nest for a few moments, as I was able to capture a photo of the four eggs in the nest tray.

Although not the greatest photo, as the direct sun light seems to play havoc with the auto iris on the colour camera during the morning and midday, you can see the four eggs in the nest tray as Angel takes a moment off the nest tray to stretch her wings.

Wednesday April 21, 2004
Mark Nash reports: Just a quick note to help answer some of the many questions from all of the e-mail that has come in regarding a hatch date for the Etobicoke nest site. Given that the eggs have been laid over a period of four plus days, and taking into account that incubation is calculated at 33 to 35 days, we should expect a hatch sometime during the last week of April - between April 25th to April 30th. It would have appeared that Angel started a "hard incubation", or (full time incubation) almost immediately after the first egg was laid primarily due to the cold weather during the egg laying process. We believe that the Toronto downtown nest site will also see a hatch at approx. the same time period. Stay tuned..........

Wednesday April 14, 2004
Fraser Shuttleworth reports: Saw Marco sitting on his usual perch atop the web cam at about 3:23 PM when something appeared that seemed to set him off. He took off screaming loudly and flew south for a bit before circling back and landing on the SE corner of the tower. Might have been another falcon because he did not seem to fly off as fast he could have and if it had been a hawk then both falcons would have been attacking right.

Thursday April 8, 2004
Fraser Shuttleworth reports: Hi, last time I saw the falcons, Marco was on his favorite perch on the SW corner of the building beside 56 Aberfoyle Cres yesterday. He seems to really like this perch for hunting forays. This was at about 3:30 PM. He then flew back to the nest site and I then saw him on top of the web cam. I assumed Angel was still on the nest. Got worried there for a while because I had not seen him for what seemed like weeks.

Saturday April 03, 2004
Nicholas Rutkay reports: Check the photo gallery for a photo of Angel taking over incubation duties. You can clearly see 3 eggs and possibly a 4th under Marco.

Tuesday March 23, 2004
Mary-Helen Armour reports: Looks like there might be 3 eggs in the nest now - see the photo gallery.

Saturday March 20, 2004
Nicholas Rutkay reports: I was watching the Etobicoke webcam and I thought you might like to put these interesting shots from the webcam into the photo gallery - there is one that clearly shows two eggs.

Thursday March 18, 2004
Mary-Helen Armour reports: It is confirmed, the first egg has been laid in Etobicoke! See the photo gallery for a shot from the webcam.

Saturday March 13, 2004
Mark Nash reports: It would appear that the male is finally back on site after a few weeks absence. For more than two weeks, we have been seeing only the female on the nest tray, but today, we have finally observed the male back on the nest tray. Good news indeed for the Etobicoke nest site.

Strangely enough, the adult female has been spending much of her time over the past month actually standing in the nest tray for hours on end, and we have been receiving many e-mails from watchers that were tricked into thinking that she may have laid eggs. Closer inspection of the nest tray by zooming in with the camera has shown that there is no eggs in the nest tray.

We believe that this behaviour might have had something to do with the fact that the rogue female from last year that laid that deposited several of her eggs in the nest tray, might have returned, and Angel is staking claim, and seems to be holding tight on the nest tray this year. Now the male appears to be back as evidence by the new photo just taken, and observed active on the nest ledge once again.

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