May 11, 2011 - Mississauga - Holcim
Mark Nash Reports:
We have received some sad news this morning from Armando at Holcim in that it would appear that the first attempt by the resident birds has failed to hatch the clutch of eggs. Observations this morning reported that although there was only one adult seen on the nest ledge, and she/he was standing on the nest ledge but not involved in any incubation activities. The three eggs were scattered around outside of the nest bowl and a second adult was not seen. This observation, (in part) is consistent with Bruce Massey s report of Monday where he reported not seeing any changing of the guards happening throughout his observations.
Stay tuned, as we hope that more information will follow……..
Posted on May 11, 2011 11:36 am
May 11, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
08:00 Morning Feed
Toronto Sheraton Centre Hotel, has a fabulous Club Lounge, but this is the “other club lounge” only accessible through our web cam. Morning Feed for the little ones.
Posted on May 11, 2011 8:08 am
May 11, 2011 - Toronto - King Street
Mark Nash Reports:
Tuesday May 10th
We have just received great news from Linda, our downtown falcon watch coordinator that a hatch has been confirmed at the King Street nest site! While the resident adult female was not giving much up as she is still sticking tight to her incubation / brooding activities, Linda was able to get a quick peek as the female shuffled around on the scrape in an effort to cover up her eggs.
At one point, Linda was able to see at least one fluffy white ball of down among the unhatched eggs, and some egg fragments that has been pushed aside clearly in the view of the camera.
Sadly, Linda is also experiencing some problems again with her Rogers internet service and she could not get connected to the www to do the posting.
It is believed that the actual hatch happened some time on Monday when Linda did her last site visit, as the adult female was paying allot of attention to something going on under her,, but she did not give Linda a view of what all the excitement was about.
Fingers crossed that there will be other eggs hatch over the next few days!
Stay tuned……
Posted on May 11, 2011 6:27 am
May 10, 2011 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
Confirmed this morning, King St has their first hatch of the 2011 nesting season. One confirmed hatched as I suspected yesterday. Egg shell fragments could be seen on the nest ledge beside the adult. Full sun on the ledge gave me an ideal opportunity to see the hatch-ling only for brief moment, but not enough time to capture an image from the camera monitor. I’ll try again tomorrow morning.
Posted on May 10, 2011 8:28 pm
May 10, 2011 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Tracy Simpson Reports:
During my site check at the Burlington Lift Bridge, I was able to get a few photos of the newly hatched young in front of a brooding Cirrus. A big thank you to the team at PWGSC and the Burlington Lift bridge for their support. Enjoy the photos!!
Posted on May 10, 2011 7:26 pm
May 10, 2011 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Tracy Simpson Reports:
I know that folks have been anxiously awaiting the photos that Marion and I were able to take of Linn and Rueben. The resize work is now done and here they are!!!!
Posted on May 10, 2011 5:59 pm
May 10, 2011 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Tracy Simpson Reports:
I was at the Canada Square Building site last week and was able to take a few photos of the resident adults on the ledge. They needed some work before posting but here they are. Enjoy!!
Posted on May 10, 2011 5:29 pm
May 10, 2011 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
Dennis and I decided to check on Freddie and Voltaire around lunch time. Freddie was on the nest just hunkered down and not paying any attention to all of the birds that were flying around the bridge at all. Voltaire was on the Church Steeple when we arrived there but ten minutes later she flew off to our right. When we left she still hadn’t come back and Freddie was still just being the good male that he is. We will keep you updated as time goes on.
Gwen and Dennis
Posted on May 10, 2011 2:58 pm
May 08, 2011 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Mark Nash Reports:
A big thank you to the team at PWGSC and the Burlington Lift bridge staff for this great photo taken from the “peep hole” in the side of the nest box. The photo shows the resident adult female “Cirrus” brooding her new family members. While if has been much more seasonal these past few days with regards to the temperatures, the constant blustry winds are still cooling the air, and as such, most of the new moms at many of the nest sites are not giving us a great deal of views. This is a great shot!
Posted on May 10, 2011 12:57 pm
May 09, 2011 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Mark Nash Reports:
An exciting afternoon! First stop today ended up to be my last stop and I was hard pressed to leave. Arrived in the afternoon trying to time my visit upon Jack arrival, I made it just in time. After making my way up to the Kingsway Condo roof, I was greeted with some old friends from Skyreach who were just finishing up their activities for the day. After an half an hour of chit chat and moments after the Skyreach crew departed, Jack finally showed up carrying food and landed on the nest ledge where his mate Angel was patiently laying down in the nest tray. Seconds after his arrival, Angel stood up and flew off the nest tray to get some exercise.
Jack remained on the corner of the nest ledge and did not go up into the tray. It looked as if he had not been given permission to go up to the nest tray or somewhat confused by actions as he remained fast exactly where he had landed with food in hand.
Over the next few minutes we both watched his mate fly around the nest building several times all the time screaming at her. After several go-rounds around the nest building, Angel finally returned to the nest ledge, and in a single motion grabbed the food from him and stepped up to the nest tray, hesitating several minutes before she finally stepped into the nest tray itself. That’s when the real interesting stuff started.
Suddenly out of nowhere, one by one, three tiny fluffy white wobbly heads and necks appeared from the centre of the nest tray! With the camera snapping away like a full automatic machine gun, I could hardly believe what I was seeing.
For the next 10 minutes I watched with sheer delight while Angel fed the smallest morsels of food one by one to each of the tiny hatchlings. They couldn’t have eaten more than a thimble size quantity of food between the three of them despite Angels best efforts to encourage them to eat more. It seemed to take forever to feed them, as on one hatchling could hold it head up for more than a few seconds.
After the feeding, Angel removed the small uneaten remains of the blood soaked carcase dropping it from her beak only several feet from the nest ledge. In the same round about flight, she returned to the nest ledge, then to the nest tray and quickly resumed her brooding activities by covering the three tiny hatchlings from my view. I was at this point I finally noticed one reddish brown un-hatched egg.
Jack remained on the nest ledge for several minutes and finally flew off from the nest ledge to the west and disappeared from my view. Over the next hour, Angel never stirred an inch and remained brooding. It was quite apparent that the show was over (at least for the time being), and I departed in an effort to get over to Oxford and the SunLife centre to tell them of the good news and to get back on the road to the Toronto head office before the heat of the rush hour traffic was in full motion.
Again, many thanks to the great staff and management group of the Kingsway on Park Condo for their support in allowing me access to the roof to confirm that a hatch had occurred.
Now for the time consuming job of going over , editing and resizing the 1000 plus photos that I ended up taking. Oh my goodness!!
Posted on May 10, 2011 4:52 am
