!!! All is well here!
September 13, 2012 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
Skyreach arrived on-site yesterday to start window washing and O’Connor seems to be taking it well. Of course with no offspring home, she has not reason to get excited having humans on her building. This morning she was by the nestbox when I came in.
She’s been enjoying the cooler weather the past week and most mornings she is either basking in the sun perched on the old web cam or by the nest box on the ledge. I’ve been told that the old cam stand will stay in place so they can keep using it to perch as all the falcons love it and it allows them a great view of the territory!
Jack has been around and I’ve hear a few chup fests between them. Interestingly Jack spends alot of time perched on the center tower where he can keep any eye on his other territory easily. O’Connor will be on the nest ledge and he on the centre tower - but they cant’ see each other from their respective perches so they just chup to each other over the building..very interesting.
Of course because I have to over analyze everything, I do wonder about that. Perhaps because Angel was the originator of this site when he came in, I wonder if that’s why he usually went to where she was which was the nest ledge? Most days when these two are chupping to each other, O’Connor is the one that gives in and flies over to the center tower to perch near Jack and I’ve seen that a few times. It’s interesting because the female is usually the dominant one but I wonder if ‘who ever’ was there first gets some sort of precidence in establishing the rules?
Jack does come to the nest ledge too but more often than not it’s as I described above. Maybe something is going on at his other site that he needs to keep an eye on? It’s also time for migrating birds to come through so perhaps he’s just being extra vigilant in case some young tiercel might try for one of the sites. Maybe I’m reading too much into it but it’s certainly interesting to watch their behaviors.