!!! There’s another Typhoon comming to the Canada Square nest site!!!Typhoon successfully released!!
July 24, 2015 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Mark Nash Reports:
July 23rd - 2015
Great news, in that little Typhoon was successfully released back to his parents and sister this afternoon! After a short stay with the Toronto Wildlife, Typhoon was cleared for release back to his parents today. I met with Lisa at the TWC and picked up Typhoon late morning and drove him back down town to the Canada Square at Yonge & Eglinton nest building.
A huge thank you to the Canada Square security for accommodating and allowing us access to the outer balcony where Typhoon was released, and to Typhoon’s newest friends (and there were MANY of them) from Canadian Tire who occupies the entire floor and office suites directly below the nest ledge, and their balcony where Typhoon was released.
After making the necessary telephone calls to all involved to let them know that I would be late given all of the traffic congestion and delays, little Typhoon and I battled the overwhelming traffic congestion (thank goodness for air conditioning and a full tank of gas), we arrived just after 12:30pm.
With Bruce from the Canada Square Security in the lead, we arrived on the 16th floor office suites where we were met by 25 plus very anxious Canadian Tire employees that were on hand to witness Typhoons release.
Once the rescue carrier was placed out on the outer balcony with its door opened, Typhoon only took seconds to actually exit the rescue crate, then jumped up the top of the large rescue carrier, turned and watched us through the glass for close to 35 minutes!!! Moments later, he finally jumped again up to the hand rail on the outer balcony wall. There is stayed once again for yet another 15 plus minutes giving us all another great photo opportunity!!!!
Obviously not being stressed at all with our presence watching him - watch us, he was actually quite relaxed during the entire process and seemed very interested in what we were all excited about.. While we didn’t see either of his parents or his sister during the hour that I was there, the Canadian Tire staff had been watching his parents out their windows flying around most of the earlier morning, so we know that both parents are still very much around.
As Typhoon took flight from the balcony hand rail, he immediately gained altitude and ended up flying around to the upper roof elevation, way above our heads!! A great strong first post release flight indeed!!!
Just a I was leaving, we did see another peregrine fly up onto the upper roof area to join Typhoon, but sadly, it flew in so fast that we couldn’t identify if it was one of his parents or his sister.
Either way, we can be assured that he is not alone! A very good morning indeed!
Now, on my way to brave the traffic once again in an effort to meet Mark Heaton at the Aurora district MNR office to have yet another peregrine fledgling banded that I rescued yesterday from Kennedy and Hwy 401 area! She also needs to get back to her parents today!
