!!! ICICI Don Mills & Eglinton Peregrines involved in serious courtship activities!
April 03, 2013 - International, National and Local News
CPF Postmaster Reports:
April 3rd-2013
No eggs as yet, but soon!!
Another quick stop into see what’s going on with the ICICI peregrines produced some very encouraging news! While it appears that the pair have not settled down on any eggs or involved in any incubation activities as yet, its not from the lack of trying. During my time spent on site, the pair were involved in some serious courtship activities including multiple copulations while the resident adult male was involved in some incredible hi-speed ariel courtship displays.
Sadly it was impossible to identify just who the resident adults are given the extreme height of the building roof top where the birds spent most of their time during my visit. The adult male spent allot of his time both flying around vocalizing to his mate, copulating with her, then flying back into and on and off of the nest ledge e-chupping and calling out to her trying to coax her down to the nest ledge. His nest ledge interests and attention differs from the one that the peregrines were successful in producing offspring on last season, in that he is trying to coax his mate onto the upper ledge that faces east looking out onto the Don Valley parkway as opposed to the ledge that faces north towards Eglinton Ave.
We were although able to confirm several weeks ago that the NEW resident adult male at the ICICI Don Mills and Eglinton nest site is in fact banded and identified by his leg bands as being a bird produced at the Canada Square nest site her in Toronto at young & Eglinton, and he was named Chester! His female mate was NOT banded and we of course have no idea who is or where she is from. Both resident adults from last year were un-banded and we had no idea as to their identity .
At one point the noise from the two vocalizing was so loud that it had people down in the parking lot looking up to the rooftop area trying to identify what and where all of the noise was coming from.
While the female never did attend the nest ledge during my visit, it is quite obvious that the adult male had chosen his preferred nesting spot. Eggs are not far away!
Stay tuned……….
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