First Full Day at Islington and Bloor; Mel Has Fledged!
June 20, 2015 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Yesterday we started off with Rob and Marion keeping an eye on the Boys Club until Bruce arrived in the afternoon to close. While there were a lot of “touch and go” landings by both Lucky and O’Connor there were no takers to the sky yesterday. We knew that we weren’t far from a launch though and so I was down this morning to open the watch at 6am. There was lots of flapping on the ledge and it wasn’t long before Lucky came in with first breakfast. He all but threw it at them and he was gone on another hunt. The foursome grabbed the prey and scrambled around to get a piece of the pigeon pie and it was quite the scrap. It wasn’t 10 minutes later that Lucky was back with second breakfast and once again dumped it on the ledge and was gone searching for more. O’Connor was in with third breakfast and that just did it. Everyone was getting in on the action accept for one… …Ferris. What a tantrum. Screaming, flapping, wailing and grabbing at the nest tray footing the wood and stomping his feet. Wow. I met up with Trish who has joined us this year for the fledge watch (oh man, thank you Trish!!) and we sat and watched the wee boys for a while. I left the watch in Trish’s most capable hands who held down the fort until Bruce arrived. He took over and set up for an evening of food, flap and frolic. At around 7pm he caught movement to the west and went to check it out. Well! If it wasn’t little Mel out for his first flight and landed squarely on the ledge beneath the ADP sign! He took another flight over to the Moneris building and once again aced the landing. Three more flights from Mel tonight that ended with him back on the Moneris building at the base of the antenna looking up at Mommy. Great flights by Mel and his siblings are raring to go.