!!! Amora takes her first flight and needs to be rescued. Mira flies high, with some very strong flights and gains lots of altitude! Blaze is flying like a pro!
June 18, 2012 - Toronto - Don Mills
Mark Nash Reports:
June 18th - 2012
I must apologize for the lack of updates as I have been doing a few 16 plus hours a day in the streets on the Don Mills fledge watch and by the time I’ve got home, I haven’t been able to keep my eyes open even long enough to eat.
While today was not the longest day I have spent in the streets on a fledge watch, it was close.
Shortly after 6am this morning, I found Blaze flying around 220 and 250 Duncan Mills buildings, with many good strong flights and landings to the upper elevations of each of the two buildings. While his landings are still much to be desired, he did land and for the most part without incident. Later in the morning, he visited his sister Mira who had earlier taken her third short flight over to a sixth floor ledge at 240 Duncan Mills Road.
Throughout the day, Blaze has taken some very good strong flights around the four office towers and gained altitude without any problems. At one point, he landed on the upper roof top of 220 Duncan Mills Road. He was followed quickly his mom Quest and she stuck by his side as he investigated his new world.
By the end of the day, both Blaze and Mira were flying high above the two buildings with very strong flights and were actually playing catch me if you can games with each other.
Shortly before 9am, Amora took her first flight from the nest ledge, flying south across Duncan Mills Road and landed on the top of the canopy of the rear entrance of 225 Duncan Mills Road and that is where she stayed until dark. For 12 hours she tried to get through the darkened glass of the office suites on the second floor and paced back and forth on the ledge and out onto the red canopy just several feet from the ground. Sadly, despite the fact that her parents have been feeding her two siblings throughout the day, Amora did not receive any food or attention all day.
Fearing for her safety given all of the raccoons, foxes and other less desirables and other threats that we have seen moving around after darkness over the past five days during the watch, and the fact that she lacked both the confidence and in ability to gain any altitude ,,the decision was made to rescue her off of the canopy and return her to a safer altitude on the upper roof top area.
With the support of the management group, building security and the great team of CPF fledge watch volunteers that stayed late and assisted, Amora was successfully retrieved from the 1st floor ledge without incident.
She was then examined for signs of trauma and injury and was then re-released under the cover of darkness to the upper roof top where she will be able join her two siblings and available to her parents care and be able to start again with some much needed altitude.
Stay tuned ……………..
