!!! A stifling day for all of theos out side in the heat today. Everyone is feeling it including the grins!
July 21, 2011 - Brampton - Courthouse
CPF Postmaster Reports:
July 21st - 2011 - PM fledge watch report
After this mornings brief activity, the rest of the day played out as you might have expected with the extreme heat and humidity (almost 50 degrees Celsius with the humid X). For theos that are still unfamiliar with the Celsius temperature scale, this equates to almost 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade,, and there was very little shade!
While the constant west breezes prevailed throughout most of the day and early evening, we all know now what it would be like being in a convection oven set at 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 hours! The day could be best described as brutal surrounded by all that hot concrete radiating all of the heat back at us!!!
Both resident adults were absent from our view most of the day, hiding out from the blistering sun in shady out of the direct sunlight places around the courthouse and Baby Courtney was for the most parts very in-active as well, with very little movement on the same ledge that she has been on for the last two days since she was rescued from the ground. She did play some “hide & seek” trying to avoid the odd watchers from behind the windows of her ledge until the great folks at this level closed their blinds to avoid scaring her. The court folks have been great!!
The parents did in fact feed her in the early morning, and brought in a small food offering later in the day. Around 5:30 pm, both parents did show up and spend several hours on the upper ledge just across from Courtney, with Truss, (the resident adult female) calling to Courtney in an effort to motivate her to fly over to “their ledge” to the left of the courthouse mail entrances.
Courtney did a little ledge running and some flapping during this early evening period, (and lots of screaming at the her parents in typical juvenile fashion), but for the most parts, she spent most of the day lounging around the ledge, laying down spread eagle, wings flat out and legs stretched out on the ledge in an effort to cool herself down.
By 9:30 PM, both adults had flown off out of our view, and Baby Courtney had once again laid down on the rear back portion of the nest ledge and out of our view for the night.
I’ve posted some great photo shots courtesy of Winston, one of the fledge watch crew that he was able to snap throughout the day and early evening. Both adults in flight, and Baby Courtney on the ledge. There is another shot of Baby Courtney on the ledge with showing a good view of her head, with the allot of white down feathers and fluff still very apparent. Talk about a Mohawk haircut 
By 10pm, we departed for the evening.
Stay tuned……..
