Stormin, Haven and Family All Active
June 10, 2012 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Frank Butson Reports:
Canada Square Peregrine report for 20120609
Both Haven and Stormin were active today but not interacting with one another.
When I arrived at 5:37 Haven was on the Canada Square nest ledge with her back to the sun. Shortly thereafter she flew to Rio-Can and perched 7 floors from the top. Stormin flew in, perched on the NW corner of Canada Square, called once and then flew to the nest ledge, landed and took off up Duplex Ave and disappeared. Soon after that he was back, coming in from the east along Eglinton he frightened a gull silly! The bird gave a loud squawk and accelerated out of his way in mad panic! Stormin was not interested and simply flew over the nest ledge circled the Canada Square roof and eventually landed on the mast on 2180 Yonge.
Two minutes after that Haven flew south to 2180 Yonge and landed on the second to last balcony where she did a funny walk along the railing from the south end to the north end of the balcony, hopped out of view for a minute, reappeared and hopped out of view again. Stormin craned his neck in her direction but I doubt he could see her. Haven did not find what she was looking for and flew south. She put in another appearance flying towards the nest but veered east and disappeared.
At 6:00pm there was brief action on the ledge in the form of one pair of wings up and then down and Haven was back on RC four floors from the top.
Twenty three minutes later Stormin flew from his perch on the mast, went south and was gone for a few minutes before reappearing over Eglinton east and the Bell building amongst others. He was gone for forty minutes . I saw him fly from over the roof of RC, and into a stoop over Duplex Ave and west and was gone again. Two minutes later he was flying over the nest and back to the mast on 2180 Yonge. Several minutes later he flew around the north side of the tall condo building, circling lazily several times and climbing until he was finally high enough to perch on the topmost point on the northwest corner of the building. Two minutes later he flew north east into a stoop over Eglinton and the Bell building and behind that. One minute later he was back with a bird in his talons and went to the east side of Canada Square where he disappeared. He obviously was not going to share and twenty minutes later he landed on the nest ledge and took off immediately. I did not see whether he dropped off any food.
By this time the eyases were waking up. One did brief peregrine calisthenics and then just sat. He was joined by his brother who was intent on showing how the exercises were to be done. He kept me entertained until 8:00pm! Stormin went into a third stoop from somewhere over Canada Square and over the low brick building next to the black building down Duplex. A few minutes later he was back on the mast. Through all this, an hour and fifty three minutes, Haven sat on the south face of RC.
At 7:53 Haven flew to the wall at the nest and perched there. The youngster who had been exercising really showed off for his mom! Those little wings moved. At one point he rested and was on the edge, looked over and thought *ummmmm, not going there* and hopped back down onto the ledge. At 8:02 all action stopped. The eyases had disappeared to the back, Haven was still above the nest and Stormin on the mast so I left. I did see all three youngsters today. Whilst one was sitting watching his brother exercise I saw a pair of wings flip up and then disappear.
Lyn
Fatal error: Call to undefined function post_gallery_get_images() in /var/www/html/w/wp-content/themes/cpf200903/index.php on line 29