!!! New Camera’s are coming!!!
September 12, 2012 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Sept. 11th - 2012
I’m being told that we will have some very exciting news to report. After a very long time, we will soon have an Etobicoke Sun Life web camera image back up and running with the addition of some very new technologies being added, new partners AND some other very welcomed and long over due nest tray replacement!!
Without saying tooo much and letting the cat out of the bag so to speak, (as we don’t want to jinx the processes), you are all going to be delighted to see what we have in store for the Etobicoke Sun Life Centre peregrines.
Oops, did I say nest cams?
You will have to wait and see. We are waiting for a ride via Skyreach Window cleaning who have one again pledged their support and expertise and agreed to get us to the nest ledge next week to get the jobs done.
In addition to dealing with the web camera’s, we will also be replacing the nest tray and new pea-gravel that is much needed. The old nest tray we installed is has finally starting to rot away,, (well, its been up there since 1997,, as has the old nest camera).
Much of the pea-gravel has been flicked out of the nest tray over the years by the annual scraping of the nest bowl by 15 years of producing adults and many hatchlings doing the same.
This summers visit to the nest ledge to extract the hatchlings for banding showed us that the wood drainage slats in the nest tray are also exposed to the elements due to the depleted pea-gravel and also now rotting away due to the exposure to the moisture over the past 15 years.
Stay tuned for some really exciting news and views out in Etobicoke!!