May 03, 2010 - Etobicoke - William Osler
CPF Postmaster Reports:
With many thanks to Bruce, three hours of observations paid off this morning as he was able to confiorm the hostpitals report of two more eggs in the nest tray being incubated and tended to by both adults.
Bruce was able to confirm the the resident male is still Hurricane, the little male that was produced at the Toronto Sheraton Hotel back in 2004 and showed up at the William Osler Hospital in 2007. He has been the territorial resident at this nest site ever since. His female mate dawns a Black over green band - (still yet to be identified) and a purple coloured USFW band. Bruce whitnessed a changing of the guard at approx. 11am and it appears that both adults are in fact sharing the incubating duties.
Stay tuned………….
Posted on May 3, 2010 10:51 pm
May 03, 2010 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
Well, the 4 eggs that were produced here by late March & were destroyed have since been replaced by 3 new ones. I think that the new clutch is complete as the female is in full incubation mode, hardly getting off the eggs at all. We have our fingers crossed for a late fledge of falcons.
Posted on May 3, 2010 8:16 pm
May 03, 2010 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
Incubation continues. A hatch should be soon. Keep your eyes on the webcam and please report any important observations and by all means send any images that you capture off the webcam, should you see a hatch.
Posted on May 3, 2010 4:43 pm
May 03, 2010 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
Monitoring continues and it appears so is the incubation. They have been consistent and frequenting the same area now for weeks, which indicates that they are indeed incubating. Today, both adults were in view. One on the “nest” while the second was ”busy” in the far reaches of the adjacent ledge. I could not clearly see what it was doing, but he was there for a while. Monitoring will continue and will increase as it nears to an expectant hatch date.
Stayed tuned.
Posted on May 3, 2010 4:40 pm
May 03, 2010 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
Finally, I was able to capture and witness a feed. After so many days of missing it by a few minutes. Today, I just arrived and Rhea Mae began feeding her three little ones.
One egg still to hatch.
Posted on May 3, 2010 3:49 pm
May 01, 2010 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
When I left work yesterday at 3:00pm there was still only 1 egg in the scrape. Today when I arrived at work it was 5:30am & I couldn’t se a darn thing, but when the sun came up & the female finally got off the scrape, I noticed that there were 2 eggs. I’m not sure if the 2nd egg was produced last night or early today. Mom was on & off the eggs quite a bit while I was there today so maybe she plans on having more as it does not appear that full incubation has started.
Posted on May 1, 2010 7:11 pm
May 01, 2010 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
Yesterday was approximately Day 30 by my count of heavy incubation here at the Etobicoke nest site! As if to back up my calculations - Jack for the first time since last years chicks were here was perched in his old signage spot most of yesterday so I know something is up! He spent quite a bit of time here yesterday for the first time in quite awhile.
This morning I arrived on-site at 8:25 am. Jack was on his old perch and Mom was in the nestbox. Usually you can’t see her from the ground due to the height and depth of the nestbox but this morning I observed her tail and head flipping around quite a bit which tells me she is not laying very flat like she normally does.
Jack spent his time watching, clearing the pigeons and anything else he didn’t like the look for about a half hour which included me!! He actually flew over to where I was across the street and down the road and circled low above me three times which was quite intimidating.
He went back to his perch for awhile, satisfied that I was sufficiently cowed - which I must say I was! Then he flew out to the south, back and forth a few times as something must have caught his eye and the last time he came back with something in his talons. He then flew to the front ledge and was in the process of preparing Mom’s brunch when a poor misguided pigeon was attempting to land on the ledge and he just grabbed it in midair and that was that! That’s the second time I’ve seen him do that and it’s just spectacular to see! He then took his new catch and flew by the nest ledge and then headed towards the direction of his other nest site!
At 9:36 he arrived back at our site, swung around and grabbed his previous catch and went to present it to Mom, a few chups were exchanged and she took the offering and flew out of sight to the rooftop to enjoy her meal.
She took close to a half hour to enjoy her meal and then returned to the webcam, a few more chups to dad and she settled into cleaning her talons and giving herself a good preen which is how I left her at 11:00 am and Jack was still in the nestbox so she’s had a good break this morning!
Posted on May 1, 2010 1:52 pm
April 28, 2010 - Ottawa - Delta Ottawa City Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Good morning, all, just to let you know that the falcons have been spotted this morning (Wednesday Apr. 28/2010) at 10:15 à 10:25 a.m. Male sighted in flight and on CP hotel SE corner (last year’s nest site) TWO females in air above at the same time (both were larger than the bird that landed on CP and of about equal size some “chasing” observed but male did not participate but was watching from a distance and followed when the two females headed north over the East Memorial Block). Heard calling KEE__YAAK_YAAK_YAAK from male when he was on the CP Hotel ledge; neither female responded as far as I could tell. There is a crow’s nest in one of the trees on the Place de Ville patio area (smoking area), and is in perfect sight line from the SE corner of the CP Hotel, female crow is currently brooding her eggs; perhaps this will become a “lunch-counter” for the falcons once the baby crows begin to fledge. Keep in touch and have a great day…
Scott
Posted on May 1, 2010 7:47 am
