July 05, 2013 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
After being out for about ten minutes I saw a peregrine juvie flying to Rio-Can, around the Duplex side, try a landing on the very top of the NW corner. That did not work so she continued flying back to Canada Square where she tried a landing on the big antenna. That also did not work. She repeated her journey and finally found a perch on the antenna but only for a short while as Haven flew in with a pigeon and the peregrine on the antenna chased her, squawking madly.
I lost both of them in the gap south of Canada Square. I walked to Y/E intersection and Haven flew onto the west side of Canada Square and perched. I caught a tail at the very corner of the CIBC building. Definitely peregrine! So I walked up to the cinema entrance just above Eglinton on Yonge and stood on that balcony and took pictures.
I suspected that this was Imagine. Only one shot shows promise of a blue band. The little bird was very hungry and I don’t believe she removed too many feathers before digging in. She just ate and ate and about fifteen or so minutes after I first saw her eating she paused, looked around and then began removing feathers before tucking in again.
She ate for about 50 minutes and at that point I was beginning to see her *cleaning the bones* so I went into the bank. When I came out she had gone.
Cheers
Lyn
I will be out again later provided it has stopped raining!
I have attached Lyn’s photo and yes it is blue tape so yes it is Imagine safe and sound with her family!
Marion
Posted on July 5, 2013 10:06 pm
July 05, 2013 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
July 5th - 2013
Today was a huge relief for us here in Port Colborne. The only surviving young hatchling we have was successfully transferred from the narrow I-beam it was hatched on to the safety of our nest box!
The extraction and transfer was done by Mark Nash from the CPF and Anne Yagi from the MNR. It all went like clockwork as the bird was safety removed from the narrow I-beam & and transferred into the box. Special thanks to ADM management for their support and cooperation, and to Rolf Numsen for ensuring all safety measures were followed.
As to be expected, Mom & Dad were not too happy about the whole affair, (and Mark will not be on their X-Mass card list again this year), however, this will give the young peregrine hatchling a shot at survival.
Later in the evening Mom was able to locate her missing chick in the nest box and everything returned back to normal. I’m sure she was quite relieved. We know very well from the past, that if the hatchling had not been moved, it surely would have fallen to it death from the narrow I-beam and perished as did its other sibling this season. This could have easily been a repeat story when three other hatchlings several years ago fell to their death when the resident adult female was forced to nest on the I-beam due to a rouge female peregrine that had been fighting with and terrorizing our resident pair to take over the nest box.
Sadly, as you know, this year the same thing has been happening with competition from yet another rouge sub-adult female fighting with our resident pair for the nest box and territory. While we were not able to recover the body of the second young hatchling that disappeared this season, (believed also to also have fallen to its death from the narrow I-beam where our resident adult female was forced to lay and successfully hatch two of the her eggs), we have at least been able save this little one in time.
We are looking forward to about 10 days +/- from now, when they will return to band the baby hatchling.
As a foot note, remember that CPF could not transfer the young hatchlings until they reached an age when the young hatchlings are able to regulate their body temperature, (in the on-sight that it took the parents some time to finally give up their searching of the old I-beam nest location and attend to the hatchling in the nest box). The hatchling is now somewhat mobile at this age, and can now migrate around the nest box to also get in and out of the direct sunlight for shade (and visa versa for warmth) when not being brooded by the adults.
As you recall, CPF had to perform a similar action many years at our site when the resident adult female successfully hatched eggs on this same I-beam. The year prior to this, all three of the young hatchlings produced fell to their death. A nest box was manufactured by CPF and installed by us and the following year, and when the adults re-nested on the I-beam, and the hatchlings were successfully transferred to the new nest box.
All survived to successfully fledge and grew to healthy juveniles attended by their adult parents.
Up until this year, the nest box has been used each year by our resident adults.
Stay tuned for more updates……..
Posted on July 5, 2013 10:06 pm
July 05, 2013 - Kitchener - CTV-Bell Media Tower
Lisa Reh Reports:
On July 5th,
Michael reported: “I was over there on Friday around noon for half an hour and found Statler on her usual post on the antenna on the King’s Towers, one of the boys on the antenna beside the TV station and Miss Fran on the TV tower making a lot of noise. After a while, she flew over to annoy her brother for a while before going on a brief flight and then back to the tower. There she continued to make noise and then flew over to join her mom at the
King’s Tower. Statler eventually decided she’d had enough and departed for downtown Kitchener while Frannie made a couple of short, noisy flights and finally alighted back on the drum at the tower.”
Lisa reported: “I’ve seen them at Sun Life quite frequently in the last few days.
Posted on July 5, 2013 1:45 pm
July 04, 2013 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
For the last 3 days Lyn has only seen 2 Juveniles at a time and today finally got the band colours, they were Red and white Ramjet and Tinia.
We were preparing to do a full search and a roof top scan when a call came into the office from security at 2181 Young St that they had a falcon stuck on a glass front balcony. guess who!
I contacted Mark Nash who was just finishing up with the watch at Bloor and Islington for the evening and he headed out to rescue Imagine at 11:30 in the evening.
When Mark got there at midnight he was escorted up to the balcony she was on but no bird was there so they checked all 4 balconies at that level. Mark could see exactly where she had been because she had pooped all over the corner of the balcony floor defiantly enough to have been there for the last 3 days.
Somehow she finally got off on her own sometime after 10:30 PM when the security guard had last seen her. Good for her another lesson learned I hope.
Lyn will be going out tomorrow morning to have a look for her and see where she is now she will be hungry and will likely head home to get food.
stay tuned,
Marion
Posted on July 5, 2013 10:18 am
July 04, 2013 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
Early this morning I saw both Cosmina and Anastasia on the south side of a building south of the King Edward Hotel. The one lying down while the other appeared to be poking at it. “Get up, let’s fly” but no, it would stand up appearing darker the it’s sibling, and then lie down again. I guess it was a little water logged from the recent rain fall we had here in the city.
Posted on July 4, 2013 7:05 pm
July 04, 2013 - Kitchener - CTV-Bell Media Tower
Lisa Reh Reports:
On July 4th,
Debbie observed: “One adult bird was guarding the nest box. Another bird (juvenile) was on the antenna of the hospital. The juvenile then flew down where it was invisible. Then I heard a falcon behind the CTV tower.”
Posted on July 4, 2013 1:43 pm
September 09, 2013 - Kitchener - CTV-Bell Media Tower
Lisa Reh Reports:
On July 4th,
Debbie observed: “One adult bird was guarding the nest box. Another bird (juvenile) was on the antenna of the hospital. The juvenile then flew down where it was invisible. Then I heard a falcon behind the CTV tower.”
Posted on July 4, 2013 1:42 pm
July 04, 2013 - Toronto - Don Mills
CPF Postmaster Reports:
July 4th - 2013
Hi everyone, after seeing a couple of speedy flights (with screeching) around the buildings I haven’t seen much of our falcons until today. Only Kendall on his favourite corner ledges.
Right now Carina and Luna are on the south west corner of the 220 roof. One of them was resting when the other arrived, who then tried to get her sister up on her feet (almost preening her as well) with some affection beak kisses between them. Cute. Now they’re hanging out together. My binocs aren’t good enough to get the tags. Earlier one flew vertically down from the roof of 240 in an almost dive, to Quest who was on a lower ledge, and they continued to spiral/fly down and then off chasing.
Sally
Posted on July 4, 2013 12:03 pm
June 27, 2013 - Etobicoke - William Osler
Tracy Simpson Reports:
There comes a point during fledge watch where the juveniles are doing so well there is very little risk of them coming to the ground and needing assistance. We call this Fun Day. These are the days where we watch the juveniles in their training with the parents as they roll and turn, lock talons and make incredible food transfers in midair. This would describe today’s observations very well. Red and White, who have now caught up in their skills to their little brother blue, were exacting their revenge on little brother, chasing him around the hospital and trying to grab him by the tail as he flew. He screamed and howled that this, not liking it one bit and the parents just sat in the tower watching as their four children trained and played around the territory. The adults ignored little Blue’s woeful cries of unfairness as they knew quite well that he had it coming. Yellow seem to be doing quite well catching up and keeping up to his older siblings. He made several flights in and around the territory and at one point flew with his brother Blue north to the next Hydro tower across Humber College Boulevard. Hurricane wasn’t too pleased with this but he let it pass for now. His kids were growing up and he had to let them explore the extent of their world. He flew over to the nest ledge and entered the nest tray behind the H sign. Chessie flew over and joined him, addressing his empty nest syndrome with a loud and boisterous chup fest. The two enjoyed a moment alone to rebond and share a quiet moment in their nest tray. Even though today was just a quick check-in, I can say from what I’ve observed that this family is well on their way to another successful year.
Posted on July 4, 2013 10:50 am
June 26, 2013 - Etobicoke - William Osler
Tracy Simpson Reports:
With all four kids accounted for and doing well last night, I decided to attend the watch at the hospital a little later in the morning. I received a phone call from Ross Bartlett, who works at Environmental Services for the hospital, that last late last night little yellow had come down once again. He fluttered down into the fenced off area of construction materials and became trapped behind the fence. He was found by security who then called our head office to inform us that the bird was down. Unfortunately we are not in the office during fledge season as we are all out at various watches in the field did not receive the call immediately. Security called Toronto animal services for assistance who attended the site and released the bird from behind the fencing. After receiving this report from Ross I immediately attended the site and went looking for all four juveniles. I photographed each bird in turn confirming their tape colors and all four juveniles were on-site, up high and looking well. Both adults were also in attendance sitting in the Hydro tower watching me as I followed their kids around the hospital. All looked well and I settled in to my watch station to complete observations until dusk. Blue, red and white are all flying incredibly well. Blue, being the more experienced of the juveniles, spent the evening harassing his sisters relentlessly. Once these girls get caught up in their flight skills, little blue is going to have two big sisters that are going to want a little bit of payback. Little yellow spent much of his time around the perimeter of the hospital staying high and landing fairly well. Just like all juveniles as they begin to learn, there’s a lot of skewed landings, near misses and fumbles as they experience flights for the first time. It takes practice to gain control like the parents have, but these kids are learning very quickly. I left all four of them this evening sleeping off an enormous pigeon dinner courtesy of mom.
Posted on July 4, 2013 10:20 am
