A Great Day at King Street
January 07, 2012 - Toronto - King Street
Tracy Simpson Reports:
What began as a day trip for Frank, Ann and myself turned into a real gathering at the 18 King St. nest site today. After meeting up with Ann, we all clambered into my car and headed down to check in on Erin and her mate. When we arrived, we headed over to Toronto and Court streets and found no birds in sight. We met up with Harry who had just seen at least one bird on the King Edward and so we waited. We weren’t to be disappointed as Erin, the resident female, flew in and landed on the Victoria St. side of the nest building. Ann and I left Frank and Harry watching Erin and went in search of the male. Following Erin’s glances, we headed over to the St. James cathedral to look around and as we wandered the streets looking up, I lost Ann but somehow found Linda!! We all regrouped back at Court St. as the male flew in and landed two ledges south of Erin. There they sat and preened the day away for hours when finally, when we were resting our camera arms, the male took off southeast on what appeared to be a very important mission. Erin was close behind and the two disappeared from our sights for the remainder of our visit. All in all it was a day of good company, good weather and a good visit with an awesome pair of peregrines!!
Erin posed quite nicely for several hours as she digested her full crop and napped away.
The male was much more elusive and harder to capture on camera as he elected to sit further back in the shadows.