Looks like there is at least one female. It appears she may be taking on a little baby sitting duties, while Erin and Windwhistler take a break.
Some good news all around today from the Canada Square management group. We have been told that a third hatchling was present on the nest ledge today!
Congratulations Canada Square!!
In addition to this good news, we have also worked out and confirmed a banding date for the hatchlings!
The banding date has been confirmed for Thursday May 24th!!
Good news all around!!
Having spent many, many hours watching the King Street site from Toronto Street, from Court Street, from King Street, etc I was finally rewarded with a view behind the ledge - who knew?
I always forget how quickly the eyases grow. This was snapped via the web cam just before 9o a.m. Toronto time.
Just a quick update on the three chicks, when we arrived there today they were sleeping and Voltaire was resting on the edge of the nest tray just admiring her
For weeks now there has been a sub-adult female hanging around in Rochester, New York looking to nest on a building on Brighton Street not far from the territory held by Beauty. The ladies in Rochester have had a tumultuous year to say the least with Beauty being injured and off to rehab, then Unity taking over her nest box with Archer, then Archer looked injured but stayed high and then disappearing. Along comes Dot.ca from Etobicoke Sun Life nest site and pairs with Unity who is sadly hit by a car and doesn’t survive. Beauty was released from rehab and returned to her nest box to find Dot.ca who is now trying to run her out of town and at the same time mating with a sub-adult on Brighton Street. Phew!!
With all things now stabilized, Beauty and Dot.ca have paired and mated but he has continued to mate with the other sub-adult female. Just like his dad Jack!! The Rochester ladies, now that they have had a calm moment, set their sights on identifying this new female and with photos taken just recently, the solid black recovery band marked 43 over X could be seen and coupled with the red and green tape on her USFW band that match our records, we can now introduce you to Pigott as the mystery lady on Brighton Street. Pigott and Dot.ca continue to be seen together and it is unsure whether they will produce any young this year but it does look like she’s there to stay. Congratulations Madame X and Surge and of course the Rochester Gang!!
A big thanks must go out to Joyce, Carol, Mak, Dana, and Kathy for all of their incredible tenacity and work to get the band number on Pigott. You ladies are awesome!! Photos to come!!
We are delighted to report that a banding date has been tentatively set for May 31st which would put the oldest hatchling at 27 days old. John (the rock climber) will finally be back from vacation in the USA and will be available to do the extraction for the banding.
Stay tuned……..
We are excited to report that we have confirmed a date for banding the hatchlings. A banding date has been secured and confirmed for May 22nd.
We will be reporting the events as soon as the results are available.
Stay tuned…….
Banding has been scheduled for May 14th.
We have exciting news in that the banding of the hatchlings has been booked and will take place on Monday may 14th at approx. 1:30pm in the lobby of MEC #1.
We hope to see you there.
Ann Brokelman sent me this report to post along with some photos.
Arrived at Harlequin at 3:45 to hear the screaming from the parking lot. Kendal had a package and was sitting on his throne, while called loudly at him. Kendal took off and landed on the other corner of the nest building. where he quickly plucked the meal. Within 2 minutes he had flown into the nest, where a bit of a tug of war went on between Kendal and Quest. Kendal didnt want to relinquish the food package. The 2 of them together really showed Quest’s superior size. Quest took the package in the nest to feed her chicks. I went up into the Harlequin building on the 9th floor.Quest was feeding the babies but her back was to us. She finally moved and I got a couple of very bad shots of the young one.
We thank Ann for her wonderful photos. While the feeding chicks may not be up to Ann’s usual excellent photos, it is a great record for us to have. (Ann felt they werent so good not me!)
