!!! We Have A Hatch
May 08, 2012 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Frank Butson Reports:
May 8th - 2012
Bruce was up to check on a hatch today. See attached photo by Bruce. We can confirm that one of the 2 eggs has hatched. Congratulations to Stormin and Haven and of course surogate parents at Canada Square!
Lyn has sent along this update with more observations of todays visit.
Canada Square report 20120508
Neil, of Northam Realty and Bruce, CPF volunteer both agree that there is at least one hatchling. I saw a little bundle of white fluff and egg shells 
Photos by Bruce attached
Later on when I was on my usual perch I saw Haven fly around Rio-Can and Heart & Stroke. She then flew behind the Condos way south and back, high, in front of the nest on Canada Square. She flew behind Rio-Can again and then over the Police Station. Stormin left the nest and flew in her direction. As he crossed Duplex he dropped a huge feather! Five minutes later Haven flew to the nest ledge and shortly thereafter Stormin followed and disappeared from sight. A minute later Haven flew to Rio-Can perched briefly before flying to the middle of 2180 Yonge where she perched on the top window ledge. She then flew along the side of the building and disappeared from view and then back to the top of Rio-Can. She ignored the two high flying gulls, waited for them to disappear and then flew to the nest ledge with a food package. One minute later Stormin flew off the nest ledge to Rio-Can and perched seven floors down. A minute later he took off and I did not see him again for half an hour when I spotted him eating on the ledge below the nest. A minute after that he flew north of the apartment building, with a food package, circled back, all the while gaining height, and landed on the ledge on the south west corner of the building. He ate a little more then flew north, gained more height circled back over Eglinton Ave turned north yet again and disappeared from view.
I saw no more action for an hour and so I left. As I walked in front of the Rio-Can building I checked, as I always do when I have seen the peregrines perched on the building, for *food remnants* on the sidewalk. I was in luck today as I found what I believe to be the head and feathers of a blue jay.
Lyn
