We have just received updated news from William Osler Health Care Centre that their resident female (who ever she is these days) is currently incubating three eggs!! This is going to very interesting indeed!
After all of the fighting and squabbling going on out at this nest site over the nest ledge itself, we are at a loss now as to who the resident female now is. Unbelievably, the same resident male of 5 years,, “Hurricane” - (produced at the Toronto Sheraton hotel) is still there and has been dealing with all of the squabbling females. I guess your gotta think that all of these girls fighting for his attention must bolster his ego just a bit!
Stay tuned………..
Bill and I and Barry and Linda have spent the last few days at the Bridge.The little ones are definitely getting BIGGER and stronger.Below are a couple of photos of Mom at a feeding from yesterday.Today we witnessed wing flapping going on inside the box with a short hop, jump and fly from the front to the back of the box.Dad made a delivery of what appears to be a Blue Jay.He just made a short stop at the box, dropped the prey and immediately took off again.During this delivery, Mom was having a little snooze tucked into the shade on the Hamilton Hydro Tower.
Was lucky enough to see one of the chicks in full view today as it stood in front of the nest box on the ledge giving me a good view of her! I say ‘her’ because it was a big, white, fluffy healthy looking eyases ! Either that or he’s a big boy - perception from the ground can be distorting!
Mom was around every time I checked, at the high point of the day when the sun is beating down on the ledge she was there with her wings up shielding them from the sun again.
May 31, 2010 - International, National and Local News
CPF Postmaster Reports:
We have received some great news from our good friends down in New York State from the N.Y.D.E.C. After banding a single hatchling that has was produced at the Grand Island Bridge nest- (on the south bridge), the resident male has been identified by his solid Black coloured marker band as being a Canadian produced bird from Hamilton Ontario.
We have been able to confirm after checking band records that the resident males identity is that of a male peregrine named Duncan. Duncan was produced at the Hamilton Sheraton Hotel nest site in 2008 and he was banded at 23 days old, weighing in at 666 grams (on an empty crop weight) on June 2nd / 2008.
Duncan has apparently hooked up with an unbanded female, so her identity and history is unknown.
We have asked Connie if they had any photos that they could send to us of Duncan and his new family.
Stay tuned……
We have received some great news from our good friends down in New York State from the N.Y.D.E.C. After banding a single hatchling that has was produced at the Grand Island Bridge nest- (on the south bridge), the resident male has been identified by his solid Black coloured marker band as being a Canadian produced bird.
We have been able to confirm after checking band records that the resident males identity is that of a male peregrine named Duncan. Duncan was produced at the Hamilton Sheraton Hotel nest site in 2008 and he was banded at 23 days old, weighing in at 666 grams (on an empty crop weight) on June 2nd / 2008.
Duncan has apparently hooked up with an unbanded female, so her identity and history is unknown.
We have asked Connie if they had any photos that they could send to us of Duncan and his new family.
Stay tuned……
Well Hamilton is very happy to share that they have 4 healthy Falcon Chicks. We have 2 boys and 2 girls.
As per usual they were named after important places in the city. This year the theme was Hamilton Hospitals.
We have Peter and Joe, and then Chedoke and Henderson.
We are looking forward to another season of fun in the sun!
This is what happens on the ledge during the banding at the Toronto Sheraton Centre. While it sounds like fun, being attacked by an adult peregrine on the 43rd floor ledge can be dangerous!
An incredible video of the Peregrine banding that occurred on May 27th by Jason Kryk of The Windsor Star. Mark Nash talks about the banding process and conservation efforts of the CPF while you get a fantastic overview of the entire banding process.
You can’t miss this video.
Can’t view the video? See the photos here - http://www.windsorstar.com/news/windsor/Gallery+Peregrine+falcons+banded/3079299/story.html
