!!! Canada Square Resident Adults Update
June 02, 2011 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Tracy Simpson Reports:
First off I would like to apologize for the lack of posts as I have been at a banding event every day and it seems in every corner of the province!! It has been wonderful to be able to celebrate these banding events as another opportunity to participate in the monitoring of this species at risk and equally exhausting!! Here is the update that we have all been anxiously awaiting.
There has certainly been much to watch at the Canada Square nest site and we have been documenting a great deal of behaviour observed between the new male and the resident female. One of the best observations came from Neil Armstrong of Northern Realty Advisors Ltd when he checked on the three chicks from the observation room on Monday May 30th. The new male was on the ledge with the chicks alone for a full five minutes and he exhibited nothing but curiosity for the young ones. Thanks to Neil we were able to get a band number and confirm that the new male on-site is none other than Stormin’, a 2009 hatch from the Toronto Sheraton Hotel. Stormin’ has been spotted several times over the past year in the Warden and Eglinton area as well as several other places throughout the east GTA. His tenacity paid off with a territory to call his own that came furnished with a female and chicks already in place!!
The next big step for this male would be to adopt the young as his own by participating in not just the defence of the site and young but food provision as well. Bruce and Lyn have been attending regularly in the hopes of witnessing such an event and their efforts were rewarded today with an observation of Stormin’ flying up to the nest ledge with food!! The resident female flew into the ledge and demanded he hand it over which he relinquished half heartedly. The female then proceeded into the ledge to feed the chicks and Stormin’ took this as his cue to leave. It is now clear that Stormin’ has accepted the role of resident male at the Canada Square nest site and is participating in the rearing of the young family. From the vacancy of the territory left by the death of Irving to the adoption of the family by the new male Stormin’, the change over came full circle in a matter of 12 days. A huge thank you goes out to Bruce, Lyn and Neil Armstrong at Northern Realty Advisors Ltd for all of their efforts in documenting this event so thoroughly.