!!! Day one on the fledge watch - All four present and accounted for!
June 16, 2014 - Toronto - Don Mills
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Day one on the fledge watch - All four present and accounted for.
Monday June 16th - 2014
Being able to access the web camera to monitor the birds offers a huge advantage over the other nest sites that don’t have a camera that’s for sure!
Most of the morning was spent trying to respond to some of the 160 back logged e-mail and trying to get through some editing of the more than 1500 photos that have been shot while on the road last week from Windsor to Stoney Creek to Mississauga to Scarborough with a very aggressive record setting banding schedule for a single week period!
The Duncan Mills hatchlings have certainly been growing since I last saw them up close at their banding and they are almost ready to start taking their first flights!
I spent most of the later afternoon and evening with the Duncan Mills family along with members of the fledge watch team as we organized and planned for the next days to come.
I got a great opportunity to see Quest again up close as she spent several hours roosting quite peacefully on top of the nest box watching her brood play together on the nest ledge beneath her. I can’t help but feel that she was thinking the very same thoughts as I was having, - “the dawn before the storm”! One of the last times that she may have to get some rest before the kids will be out terrorizing the world, and have both her and Sky in a panic flying all over to keep track of her kids.
By 8:45pm it was evident that the four hatchlings were not going anywhere and we responded to Cathy Kerr’s call to come down to the Don Mills nest site to lend a hand, as her last young fledgling had a number of short not so good flights ending up losing allot of altitude and eventually landing and clinging on a window ledge just two storeys up above the main parking lot.
Stay tuned………..
