!!! Reunited!
July 17, 2010 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
We seem to have recovered our little lost Mercedes this week. It’s taken me a few days to sort out what has happened and how many falcons are on site simply due to chaos that surrounded Jack’s return! It seems he did not come back alone but Mercedes may have been with him or was somewhere in a bind and Jack was aware of his location and was looking out for him. Really we’ll never know unless they start talking 
The day Jack returned, several of us were outside and had seen the two older boys playing tag in the air and mom was on her web cam perch. Suddenly out of nowhere I saw three juvies in the air briefly and was a bit confused, when suddenly mom dove off the web cam and started attacking one of the boys. We were all shocked as she certainly wasn’t ‘playing’ with him, she obviously didn’t recognize him or as is her way ‘attack first, ask questions later’!.
Mercedes did manage to evade mom and his two brothers rescued him and dad dove off we assume to intercept mom as a few minutes later she and Jack were on the ledge having an intense discussion. After about an hour Mercedes appeared on the ledge with both mom and Jack and hasn’t let her out of his sight since his return. He also has cried non stop for food since his return and I did observe her feeding him on Thursday afternoon so obviously he is back in the fold. He is behind the two older boys who are doing well and hunting on their own - with some help from mom of course - and they like to hang out on their own tower together. They are advancing well towards dispersal. Hopefully Mercedes will catch up soon but one thing for sure is his flying skill is quite good as he managed to stay a feather ahead of mom during her little episode.
I did wonder if perhaps one of Jack’s other sons had followed him back to our site which is why I wanted to make sure we did indeed have our little guy back. Jack is back to his regular routine of visits and has been here and at his other site quite frequently again and his two other boys are also being seen together so it seems all is well again!