All three still on the ledge, but they will be taking their first flights very soon!
June 27, 2014 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Mark Nash Reports:
Friday June 27th - 2014
A quickly update from Dave who was out at the Scarborough nest site most of the afternoon checking on the three hatchlings, he reports a slow day for the most parts - likely given the heat and humidity. He observed only one food drop and feeding of the hatchlings on the nest ledge around 4pm, and then all of three chicks settled back down and disappeared back out of his view on the nest ledge.
I arrived much later after shortly after 7pm after doing some fledge watch time early this morning out at the William Osler fledge watch, meeting with Mark Heaton from the OMNR to band the young female fledglings that I had rescued two nights ago from the Rogers Centre nest site - (a big female they named “BJ” - (after the Blue Jays), and re-banding the young fledgling that Bruce Massey had rescued the night before from the Toronto Sheraton nest site.
I was successfully able to release the two peregrine fledglings back to their parents at the Rogers centre and the Toronto Sheraton Hotel earlier with the help of the Rogers centre staff and Linda from the downtown Toronto Sheraton fledge watch.
I must admit, everything at the Scarborough Yellow pages nest site was disturbingly quiet when I arrived!! Absolutely no one is my view, (no adults, and no chicks)!!
Just after 9pm, finally one of the adults finally flew in from the west and landed on the upper elevation of the building. Moments after, one of the chicks appeared on the outer leading edge of the nest ledge, flapped a few times, and as quickly as it appeared, it disappeared back into the nest ledge out of my view. Well, very uneventful indeed!!
By 9:30pm, darkness was moving in and no activity was observed. I closed the watch for the evening and was able to pick up Marion from the Kennedy subway station arriving from her fledge watch day at the Canada Square nest site at Yonge and Eglinton.
Wow, a very busy, very long day for all!
See you all tomorrow……..
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