Ottawa - Delta Ottawa City Centre

This morning she was at the southwest corner and in a bit headed for the northeast corner, seemingly her favourite.  Tailer was on the northwest corner of Tower 2.  Soon he flew around, ending up  on the Carlisle antenna, and went to sleep way up there.

Diana was seen on the same antenna while Connor was on the ledge of the hotel.  Eventually Tailer joins Nihei on Tower 1.  She was out of sight often and was thought to have taken her first flight.  However that was soon found to be untrue as she was seen on “her” corner.  It had been Tailer who had been flying around.

Since she was out of sight at times, there is no confirmation of any food drops today, until a very small one for Nihei.  There is no record of food for Tailer, but he could have followed an adult and eaten elsewere.

Once again, she seems to be doing little activities other than beetling along the edges.  Her parents are still doing incentive flying, past her, over her, near her, sometimes landing on the edge near her, then taking off.  They are certainly working hard at parenting!

Tailer is very adept at landing on the antenna on Tower C, this time landing on the very point of a vertical tube rather than a radial arm.  Then he flew over to the antenna on the Carlisle.

Tonight Nancy and Anouk stayed later.  She perked up around 9:30, when they were leaving, flapping her wings and going back to her corner.

We have noticed one primary wing feather missing.  This was not from today as we saw it that way a while ago.  This, coupled with heat and humidity, as well as weight may be the reason she is taking longer to get going.  Don’t give up!  It will happen.

Eve Ticknor