Reports coming in are stating that the resident pair remain in the area and are seen roosting on both the Hospital and adjacent buildings. Closer observations will be needed to watch for potential new nesting behaviour and/or a new clutch of eggs.
Back to the monitor this morning. The Adult female did not move to show me a thing. She was a little more unsettled on the nest today. Perhaps the warm weather has her at ease.
This afternoon a return visit to the monitor. Forgot it’s all in shade and very difficult to see anything until the sun is off the while building across the street. The camera lens reacts to reflective light, thus the lens is reacting to the bright sunlight reflecting off the building. The male did make an appearance on the nest ledge. He sat there for a while then gingerly approached the female from behind. He stood there for a few minutes, but the female totally ignored him and did not move an inch. He eventually flew off. She did get up and adjust the eggs and I wasn’t quite sure if I saw a little white fluff,or just the white of her chest feathers. I’ll check again tomorrow .
Bruce Massey was on-site today at Holcim in Mississauga and from his period of observation, he could not detect any adults birds. There certainly was activity at this site over the past few weeks of a territorial pair but Bruce was unable to locate a ledge of interest. Has this pair settled in somewhere? Check back soon as we will be keeping a close eye on this site for any signs of nesting activity!!
Bruce Massey was on-site today at the Mississauga Executive Centre for a check up on the incubating adult pair and their three eggs. A quick look at the monitor revealed that there has yet to be a hatch at this site. The resident pair is certainly working hard on incubating and caring for the eggs and we will continue to check back regularily for a hatch. Check back soon as it could be any day now!!!
Bruce Massey was on-site today at the William Osler Hospital and was able to gain access to the mechanical room peep hole for a check up on the resident adults and their clutch of eggs. To his delight, the resident female stood up to reposition herself and there was a newly hatched chick in view. Bruce puts the hatch date as yesterday or last night. A huge thank you to the staff and security at the William Osler Hospital for all of their support and congratulations to them on their very first hatch!!!!
Angel just brought food into the nest and I could see her making the motions from the ground and hear her chups to ‘the kids’. Jack is on the webcam keeping a wary eye on the condo towers where there is lone, brave window washer..however he’s on the other side of the condo and does not have visibility of the ledge so I expect all shall remain calm.
It’s a glorious day out there today, sunshine, warm breeze so Angel picked the best week..Mom does know best after all 
Yesterday, we were at the Bridge for two and half hours. Voltaire was laying on the nest. All of a sudden she flew off the nest ledge and Freddie flew in and Voltaire flew off to her right and we didn’t see exactly where she went. Finally I noticed her sitting on the O of Ambassador sign. Freddie was quite content looking staying on the nest site. Finally Voltaire flew down on the beam and was preening herself. When we left they were still in the same spots. We are a little concerned that we haven’t seen any babies yet since last year we saw the first one on the 5th of May and now it is the 8th already. Stay tuned for more reporting.
Gwen and Dennis
A quick report from Bruce this morning from Harlequin and the Don Mills nest site. He reports that although he has not actually got an eyeball himself on the remaining egg, Quest and Kendal have been in hard incubation and attending to the nest like pros these days! Regular shift changes and full time incubation continues with both adults in attendance! Also, both birds have been regularly defending the territory from all avian passer-byes and so far all is looking good! Canada geese and Turkey vultures BEWARE!!
Stay tuned, more to come………..
Just arrived back from a 2 hour visit to the nest site. When I arrived, even without binoculars, Angel could clearly be seen from the ground flipping back and forth like pizza! Up, down, frontwards, backwards…on and on it went for a good 45 minutes.
Finally she left the nestbox and flew over to the cache and returned quickly with food in her talons. She spent 8-10 minutes feeding something - her head was up and down and she was clearly chupping to someone between, single chups that prompt a chick or chicks to eat. When done she immediately left with the food in her talons and stashed it on another ledge and then right back in to the box.
She settled a bit but was again seen moving around, head clearly seen from the ground, more flipping around! About 45 minutes later, I heard Jack’s shrill signal that he was arriving - here’s the funny thing, I never saw him. I had his perch on the other side and the nest ledge clearly in sight and never saw him once. Angel started chupping to him and I could hear him answer back. At one point she got out in front of the nestbox and looked straight up and was chupping up a storm to him and then right back into the box she went. He gave the ‘I’m leaving’ signal and then all was quiet…amazing!
CPF members will be onsite tomorrow to confirm what I saw today. Week before last I was watching the Gulf Towers webcam online and the female was so excited that her eggs were starting to hatch that she brought in food to try to feed the eggs..it was very sweet! So I’ll wait for a visual confirmation.
In the meantime, Happy Mother’s Day to Angel and all Mom’s out there - including my own who was understanding about me spending time with ‘my other mom’ this morning!
Despite our Rogers internet service challenges, the camera continues to work just fine, as you can see by the great real-time live view that we’re able to see on the computer monitor. A big thanks to Linda for her persistence in attending the nest site on almost a daily basis in an effort to get the exact date of a hatch. She snapped this shot of the computer screen while monitoring the computer. So far, no hatch as yet.
