June 28th Report - Ashley Down, Treed and Freed
June 28, 2013 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Tracy Simpson Reports:
This morning when Katherine arrived, she did her morning check on Ashley before going into work and found her on the south ledge of building three. All seemed to be calm and well in Ashley’s world as was typical for this young girl these days. All that changed by 9 AM when our head office received a “Downed Bird 911″ phone call from MEC security at building four that Ashley was down and on the sidewalk. I was called and dispatched to the site and on route I contacted Katherine and Shannon to see if anyone was available to go out and take look. In the interim security had gone and retrieved the rescue carrier from building one and made their way back to where Ashley sat on the sidewalk. The minute she laid eyes on that carrier she ran. She was not intending to go in that thing yet again. She took flight low over the building four parking lot to the east and landed on a residential roof four stories above the ground. Katherine and I met over at building four and spoke with security about Ashley’s whereabouts. From his desk in the lobby looking out the window he could clearly see her sitting on the residential roof and pointed her out to us. She was high and certainly dry, for now. She sat up on that roof, a little confused about how she got there but none the worse for wear. She spent the rest of the day running, flapping and preening on top of the residential housing to the east of building four. I stayed for the better part of the day and monitored her from the upper elevation parking lot behind building four until about 4 o’clock. It was at this point that I needed to leave the site for about an hour and Katherine came out to assist. When I returned to relieve Katherine, Ashley was still in the same position and had enjoyed several rain showers throughout the day. She was currently tidying up after her most recent shower and stretching the evening away when I was joined by Shannon and Adam later on to help continue the watch on Ashley until she made her next flight. But alas she did nothing. Stayed right where she was and so the evening hours for the most part were uneventful. It was at this that Shannon and Adam took their leave. They hadn’t been gone long. I knew it was coming. Ashley took that flight that was intended to get her home. If close counted in a juvenile peregrines flight then Ashley did an awesome job. She made it within feet of the nest building. Unfortunately she was about 20 stories below her intended target. I found her sitting comfortably in an evergreen tree right outside of the front entrance of the nest building. There she sat trying to figure out what her next move was going to be. She looked up at the buildings and you can see the look on her face,” Boy, that looks so high from here “. She didn’t move for a long time and it was almost dusk. I thought for sure she might stay in that tree for the night but oh no Ashley had other plans. She took flight from the tree, flew low over my head and across the street towards building two. She continued to fly low towards the back parking lot of building two and then banked right. My heart stopped. She was now out over Hurontario Street somewhere and she was low. I raced to the back of two with security following me and we scanned the horizon looking for her and to my surprise she was sitting on the rooftop of the Accenture building. She made it, good girl. There she stayed for the night and I quickly texted off her last known location to all of our watchers. My grateful thanks go out to the fast acting Garda security staff who were amazing at identifying Ashley and contacting us right away about her situation. Many thanks also go out to Katherine and Shannon for reacting quickly to Ashley’s situation, making sure that she was okay and helping me to monitor through the day. Excellent job everyone, but it’s not over yet.
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