!!! More Terrible News!! The MEC resident female adult has been found dead!
July 22, 2013 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Mark Nash Reports:
July 22nd - 2013
It is with great sadness that we have to report that the resident adult female (named Cass - banded Black S over Green D) has been found dead. We received a telephone call form the Mississauga Animal Services that an adult female peregrine was recovered from the street today and the leg band identification has verified that the peregrine is in fact “Cass”, the resident adult female from the MEC nest site.
While we have no idea as yet what has been the cause of her death, this news comes to us on the eve of yet another two injured peregrines having been recovered this past weekend,, (Kendal, the resident adult male from the Duncan Mill nest site), and an un-banded (unidentified juvenile, believed to be a male).
As many of your know, we had a terrible storm pass through Ontario this past Friday - (July 19th) as a cold front moved in from the north west to replace the debilitating hot and humid weather that we have all been dealing with for the past week. The storm brought incredible high winds of 110 plus km hour gust winds and torrential rain off and on Friday night causing flooding and power outages, downed tress and other associated damage. Thousands of people in Toronto are still without power even as of today. We had Tornado warnings being given throughout the day and most of the evening on Friday.
It is interesting that Kendal and the other unidentified un-banded peregrine were recovered Saturday (the very next morning after the storm).
Sadly, it appears that we have yet another single parent (this time dad, the un-banded resident adult male)to deal and care for the one surviving young fledgling - (named Ashley) out at the MEC nest site!
Wow, not a good post fledge season, unlike the norm where we are usually picking up injured or deceased fledglings at this time of year, we are for the first time in a very long time, now picking up injured and deceased resident adults!
We will be retrieving her body later this afternoon and hope to have additional information.
Some history of Cass;
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., June 22, 2009 – One of Macomb County’s new Peregrine falcons paid a visit to the 8th Floor southwest ledge of the Administration Building in Mount Clemens.
Cass, one of the two female falcons hatched this year, decided to show off her new adult feathers. The bird took after her namesake and posed for photos worthy of a governor’s oil painting portrait.
Cass was named after a Michigan’s second governor Lewis Cass by Macomb County Commissioner Frank Accavitti of Roseville.
The youngsters were hatched by their parents Nick and Hathor on a ledge on the 11th Floor of the County Building.