Canada Square Update 2014-05-12
May 12, 2014 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
I arrived at 12:20 to find Stormin on the scrape. He was dozing and seemed quite unaware of things. I think this was proved when ten minutes later I noticed Haven on top of the north wall. I had not seen her arrive; she may have been there all along! She preened her feathers and cleaned her talons and Stormin dozed on!
After twenty minutes of this activity Stormin was woken from his daydreams when Haven hopped to the middle of the top of that wall and disappeared from sight. He chupped. She ignored him. A minute later she was gone from my sight. I think she had taken flight.
At almost 1:00pm Stormin called again several times but there was no response. Then he began to move the pebbles from in front of him! He dug his beak in and pushed them aside, picked up some and dropped them in another spot and dragged a few to his chest.
Periodically he chupped his annoyance or something. Still no response so he did a 180 degree turn and that was when the trouble started. He just could not get those four eggs to stay underneath him. First one egg popped out then another. He’d get those two under him but another one popped out from somewhere else. He really was busy !
He did another 180 degree turn back to the original position and attempted to sit on the eggs. No go! So he got up and pushed one egg under but another popped out elsewhere. I could feel his frustration. He moved over to cover that escaped egg and one on the other side appeared.
Eventually, still chupping periodically, he arranged three eggs in row sort of the length of his body, did another 180 degree turn and sat down. But that fourth egg just would not fit. I have no idea why not because when I arrived all four eggs were hidden. Anyway the fourth egg was up around his left shoulder and then he REALLY called.
Two minutes later Haven appeared on the ledge in front of him. He chupped some more, struggled to get up off the eggs and then was gone!
Haven just stood there and it was all I could do not to laugh.
She had four eggs at odd angles and not at all close to one another, there were little scrapes around the big scrape and she had to re-organise this *mess*.
No problem for Haven she simply sat down and pulled the eggs under her, shuffled herself a bit and nudged an egg under with her beak. Done!
Lyn