two growing balls of fluff
May 27, 2010 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Robert Williams Reports:
As I arrived this evening at the bridge, mom was already actively hunting and quickly caught a pigeon over the harbour. She returned to the Skyway and then the overhead wires of the lift bridge to finish preparing it, then took it to the nest ledge to feed the chicks. There were two very visible white chicks that came to the edge of the ledge to be fed. They spent some time at the edge after feeding, looking all around and there was even some flapping going on after dinner.
The male arrived from parts unknown while the chicks were eating, and settled on the south tower. He seemed to keep looking down towards the parking lot and south of the tower. Later in the evening the female gave an alarm and dove across past the parking lot, around an old house south of the tower. Unfortunately I couldn’t see what upset her, but she buzzed the area several times screaming (while dad looked on), and settled for a short while on a lampost overlooking this area. She eventually returned to the hood beside the nest ledge where she remained when I left.
The chicks are growing so fast, they’ll be losing their downy white in no time. It’s nice to finally get a reasonable look at them.