Still Here…Still Active
August 17, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Frank Butson Reports:
Lyn Reports:
Report for 20100817, Tuesday.
At 7:00pm I heard the tell tale sound of young peregrines in the area but I was too late to see anything.
At 7:12pm I heard the call again and managed to see a large youngster, so a female, in flight three streets North of Eglinton and across Yonge street. She flew behind an apartment building and came out the other side whilst pigeons flew every which way on the east side of that
building and down to lower rooftops. The peregrine looped around in the same direction as the pigeons but was not giving chase. She disappeared.
A minute or two later I heard the call above the Heart and Stroke building and saw the mom, still missing wing feathers on each wing, fly away from the building, over the Rio Can building, and a youngster followed her only to disappear. Mom flew out over the north side of the H&S building, back, out of sight over the same building and then from the H&S building she went into a stoop past the Orchardview apartment building and up Yonge street. She pulled out of that stoop and flew south along Yonge street and I lost her.
At 7:27pm I heard more calling but was too late to see any peregrine.
At 7:43 pm I heard the calls again but no sighting.
They’re still here and still active!
Lyn