!!! Etobicoke Update
May 12, 2010 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
Apologies for taking so long to give an update after Monday’s post! Everything seems to be back to normal today and all is quiet.
Monday afternoon after my last report of the TR Male attempting to regain his site on Monday morning and Jack being wounded, they did both end up at our site on Monday afternoon. It was more like Jack chasing poor Milton out of the other territory and they spilled into ours. At one point Mom even joined in to help them along as she was quite agitated, jumping in and out of the nestbox and alarm calling.
Interestingly, Milton returned here as Jack went back to the territory they were fighting over and he stayed here for the evening while Jack remained over there. Milton tried to make friends with mom at one point but she wasn’t having any of it! She came out of the nestbox a few times and chased him off and despite the fact she could have hurt him..she didnt’. He didn’t seem injured, a bit roughed up no doubt but was flying quite well and spent most of his time here preening and fixing his feathers :) He spent the night on one of the buildings nearby and was gone by the next morning so I expect he’s moved on…we hope for his sake anyway at least until Jack’s hormones stop raging!
Jack seemed to be more aggressive which makes sense as he has chicks/eggs at two sites whereas Milton seemd to be more confused about the entire situation and didn’t seem to be interested in a prolonged or fatal battle though he gave Jack a nice parting shot to remember him by. What was really curious was that Jack didn’t seem to know that he was here at our site for several hours.
Yesterday Jack was a bit more calm but he was still on alert and was only sighted here once however today he’s back to his usual routine and mom has had two breaks..I saw food come off the ledge so all is good.
Frank went up to the condo rooftop yesterday to see if he could see what was going on in the nestbox but given the cold, windy weather..Mom was not budging. She didn’t blink, glared at him but she would not show him what she was hiding. You can see in the nestbox that she was certainly sitting in a posture indicating she is definitely hiding something but until we see white fluffies…we’re not going to call it. We will make another attempt next week if Spring ever decides to revisit us.
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