No eggs as yet and the nest ledge appears to have changed!
April 03, 2013 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
CPF Postmaster Reports:
April 3rd-2013
A site visit produced some interesting news and mixed results today, in that it would appear that although a nest ledge has not yet been selected - (and there are no eggs present as yet), the peregrines interests seemed to be focussed on a different ledge on the Yellow pages building from the one that they used last year.
A detailed inspection of each of the 8 available nest ledges showed that there were at least one, if not two different scrapes on all of the available eight ledges! So much to choose from!!
It would appear that the pair have been very active indeed scraping out fresh nest bowls on many of the ledges and have not yet decided what ledge they (or should I say what ledge “SHE” has decided on). You could almost see the frustration in the resident males body language and behaviours as it would have appeared that he tooooo had given up trying to coax his mate to a nesting ledge, and was now simply waiting for her to make a decision! Clearly he has been frantically scraping out nest bowls everywhere in an effort to accommodate her!
From my observations and the location of the female, it would appear that she may have interests in a ledge on the south side of the building this season, (facing due south facing out onto the parking lot), which is south of the Yellow pages building. It would be on the top of the south west column, (to the left of building entrance), and the south east (right side) facing ledge on this column. Its very difficult to describe as the building has 8 different ledges, with two ledges atop of each of the four corner/columns, each facing a different direction.
After reviewing the photos I was able to take, it would appear that the purple USFW band with the combination of the second Black over Green band on the resident adult male is consistent to that of Ruben who has been the long standing resident territorial adult male at the Yellow Pages nest site. Sadly, I was unable to get a photo of the resident female who just wouldn’t stay stationary long enough for me to get a photo of her or verify by seeing any of her leg band numbers. Given her posturing and behaviour, I suspect that the resident adult female may still be Linn from Rochester N.Y. who has also been the resident adult female at Yellow Pages for some time.
Sadly, in my haste, I accidentally deleted the photos of the adult male and have nothing to post with this report.
Stay tuned …………
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