March 31, 2014 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
At around 7:00 am on Friday Mar. 28th Trillium laid her 1st egg of the year. Sadly enough, at 2:00 pm the same day she proceeded to consume the egg that she sat on all day. We are really concerned about this very disturbing behaviour considering she has consumed about a dozen eggs over the last couple of years. We wonder what possible reason would provoke this unusual habit. Trillium has not produced any more eggs yet. However, Buffalo Bill was observed in the nest box today digging out the scrape. The CPF thinks that there could be a territorial struggle going on here but we have not witnessed any confrontations or intruders in the area. I was up to check the beam where she has laid eggs in the past just in case she decided to try a different spot but thankfully there is nothing there. Never a dull moment here, but there certainly are some discouraging ones.
Posted on March 31, 2014 8:46 pm
March 31, 2014 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
Egg #3 was due yesterday but as of earlier today I still didn’t see one. O’Connor was on and off today but in the last hour she’s been ‘on’ and just now Jack came in and we have had a ’shift’ change. Considering the temperature outside - which is actually plus 8C - I wouldn’t expect that if there are only 2 eggs as they don’t start incubation until the second to last egg is laid.
Could egg #3 not be visible to us because of the nest box and cam angle? We’ll have to wait and see. But as of 5:17 pm I can still only clearly see 2 eggs in the nest box.
Posted on March 31, 2014 5:17 pm
March 24, 2014 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 24th - 2014
Good morning!
The season is heating up in Toronto!
Rhea Mae & Tiago enjoyed a bit of beaking this morning.
And Rhea Mae was kind enough to show her VID band this morning…black/red P/*T…it’s always good to know for sure it’s still “our” girl!
Ei
Posted on March 31, 2014 4:15 pm
March 31, 2014 - Toronto - Hearn Power Station
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 27th - 2014
Hello Guys
I witnessed this at the Hearn Generating Station on Unwin Avenue just after 1:00pm March 27th. It is a terrible photo because they were just too far away but if you can use it please feel free to.
Cheers.
Paul Reeves
Posted on March 31, 2014 3:35 pm
March 30, 2014 - International, National and Local News
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 30th - 2014
Amexon Nest site - Don Mills & Eglinton - (ICICI)
While I know that I likely over reacting, it was never the less somewhat disturbing after spending several hours at the Don Mills nest site at Eglinton Ave and Don Mills Road having not seen either of the two resident peregrines anywhere. After more than an hour of sitting and watching the nest building and nest ledge, we decided to take a tour around the neighborhood to check all of the usual roosting spots and leading edges of most all of the other buildings from various viewing spots, and each turned up negative. No peregrines anywhere to be found!!
After talking to security, they did inform us that their grins were very vocal several days earlier, and could be herd from the ground level, so we know that have been around.
What was also somewhat disturbing, was the lack of “fresh” white-wash staining under their usual roosting spots. Hmmmm?
Thinking positively, we hope that they are already involved in full time incubation on the nest ledge, and the non-incubating adult was simply off hunting or roosting in a non-typical spot.
Time will tell, (and a whole lot more observations are needed)!!
Any assistance with observations if you have the time to get out and spend some time watching would be most appreciative!
Posted on March 30, 2014 10:34 pm
March 30, 2014 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Sunday March 30th - 2014
Some exciting news today, in that we have confirmed that there maybe part-time incubation underway, (if not full-time) at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site. After several hour of roaming around Toronto’s east end to get some additional nest site updates, we ended our day at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site and found Ruben (the resident adult male) high up on the upper elevation of the nest site building (south side) in the middle of a preen-feast, looking rather dapper indeed!
For the next few hours, Linn (the resident adult female) was no where to be found as we circled the building on numerous occasions with no luck seeing her. Then, just as 7 o’clock passed and the sun setting to the west, out pops Linn from a ledge on the upper south west column, (south east facing ledge) directly in our view from the south YP parking lot.
As she exited the ledge, it was obvious that she had food in her clutches and she proceeded to fly around to the east, then around to the north side of the building out of our view. Ruben took flight and pursued her. They both returned moments later coming around from the west side of the building, with both of them returning to the same ledge that Linn had appeared from earlier.
At this point, both birds disappeared down into the ledge itself and out of our sight. Some 15 minutes later, Ruben re-appeared from the ledge, spent several minutes looking down into the ledge where Linn had disappeared, and then flew up to an upper ledge elevation on the west side of the south east column, where he stayed until we left.
Linn never did re-appear from the other ledge, and it would appear that she might be involved in at least part-time incubation, (if not now involved in full time incubation).
We will be doing another site visit later on in the week.
Stay tuned……..
Posted on March 30, 2014 6:21 pm
March 27, 2014 - Toronto - Hearn Power Station
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 27th - 2014
Hey Guys,
I just wanted to give you an update on the observations they we gathered at the old Hearn power plant. For the past week, there has been two peregrines back hanging around the plant - (most likely Angela and Peter). They were observed copulating yesterday and again today. Lets hope that they pick a good nest site this year. Talk to you soon.
Desmond
Posted on March 30, 2014 2:12 pm
March 30, 2014 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:38 AM, <mloonweller@yahoo.com> wrote:
Good morning everyone,
I’m writing from the bridge this morning. Got here about 30 minutes ago and Freddie was perched atop the Assumption Church steeple keeping an eye on the world and Voltaire was on the pipe under the bridge. No action from either one.
After waiting about 30 minutes, Freddie took a leisurely flight under the bridge, circled around and flew in to Voltaire for copulation purposes. She seemed to be ready and waiting for him. Spring is in the air!
After the brief encounter, Freddie flew to the bridge and has been enjoying the sunshine perched just to the east side of the nest box but in the small area blocked from the nest by a steel beam and concrete. Seems to be enjoying the “afterglow” of his efforts.
The watch will begin soon!
Cheers,
Marilyn
Posted on March 30, 2014 11:26 am
March 30, 2014 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Bruce Massey Reports:
I stopped in on Friday for a check in at the Canada Square nest site for the presence of eggs. When I arrived I met up with Neil from Northam Realty and we headed up to the nest ledge level for some observations. I checked the west side scrapes and there were not any eggs as of yet but both adults were seen. When I left and went outside, I found the female on the northeast corner and the male on an east ledge. The female took off down Eglinton on a very low hunt, about light standard level, and returned shortly back up Eglinton. Both adults then flew into the eastern ledges and disappeared. We will check in again next week as they are close to laying eggs and to see which ledge they choose this year.
Posted on March 30, 2014 8:37 am
March 30, 2014 - Kitchener - CTV-Bell Media Tower
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Today Bruce and I made our way out to Waterloo to check in on the resident adults progress towards the nesting season. When we arrived we initially didn’t have any birds in view so we started a walkabout of the nest building looking for the pair. On the north side of the nest building we located a roosting adult sitting in the lee of the wind which we believed to be the female. We left her there roosting while we went to get the scopes and upon our return, we found the male flying around the west side sign. He flew out over the parking lot and up into the nest box with the female right behind him. The two of them entered the nest box and were there for a good 5 minutes before the male emerged and flew around to the west side sign. The female remained in the box and we made our way over to check him out. As we re-positioned, the female came out of the box and flew around to the north side parapet that she had just recently left.
We caught up with the male roosting on the west side sign and here we split our resources; Bruce stayed on the male and I went around to the north to watch the female. Given that the pair were both out for a prolonged period, we suspected that there were no eggs present and we now set to trying to ID the adults. Just as we were setting up the scopes the male takes to the air and retrieves a cache of prey. He flies out towards the west drawing the female off of her roost. She then meets him in the air and literally fights him for the prey. He squealed at her and refused to let go so they both made away with a portion of their own. She returned to the north side parapets to eat and he went back to the west side sign. This was pretty strange for a bonded couple ready to lay eggs.
Then things really got weird. After eating, the female took off of the north side parapet and flew around to the west side sign landing on the “U”. The male was quite annoyed with this and made 5 or 6 passes at her seemingly trying to get her off of the sign. He was alarm calling as he did this. He finally settled on a parapet above and to the right of her and she decided to now roost and rest for a while. This afforded us looks for identification and we confirmed two things. The male bears a black over red band that is consistent with Caster, the male that has been present for the past two seasons. We couldn’t say for sure if the band read 16 over B as the winds and his height made that very difficult. The female was facing in towards the building and during her preening we were able to see, and photograph, her un-banded legs. This was not Statler.
Where Statler is we can’t say. We do believe that this is a recent event as Caster seems very confused by this and copulation did not occur once during our entire visit of several hours. We met up with Rudy and he watched with us for a while and agrees that this is a recent event. The Waterloo team will be watching to see how this all shakes out and although the nesting season for the site is moving forward and the pair are focusing their attention on the nest box, it looks like it will be somewhat delayed.
Posted on March 30, 2014 7:57 am
