June 06, 2016 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
CPF Volunteer Reports:
Started off with both youngsters on MEC3 and ended the night with both on MEC3. They should be out of sight, in on the well, second well from the right on the Desjardins face of MEC3 in the morning.
Blue flew 4 times between 1 and 3 however Red did a bit of gap jumping but not much else. Blue also flew short distances from roof height to window/nest box levels on both 1 and 3. His flights were pretty good considering he fledged today. Kept altitude very well and landings were slow and safe although awkward. He did have a few minutes of doing the bat on 1 but flew to 3, over the roof, circled back to 1 and landed on the roof with only minor landing issues.
The adults proved that no meal sized bird is to fly at half the height of the MEC buildings. Two pigeons and a mallard were attacked but all escaped very close calls. Renegade did bring in a small food parcel a little after 6 but if it was shared by both chicks, neither could be well fed as that was the only food of the night.
Winston
Posted on June 6, 2016 8:15 am
June 06, 2016 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Bruce Massey Reports:
MEC:
0515 AM- Arrived & Set Up. All birds in same position as last night.
0540 AM- Went through 15-20 minutes w/ activity from chicks.
0545 AM- Some ” Feed Me” vocalization from Josally and then everyone quieted down.
0615 AM- Adult Male out to S and actively hunting
0620 AM- Adult returned with food for Josally
0630 AM- Adult off to north alarm calling then up to davit arm.
0730 AM- Olimar gets beak fed
0900 AM- Margaret joined me and spent about 3 Hrs. During this time the chicks were mostly in the shade occasionally coming out and doing a little exercise, but always went back.
12:10 PM.- One of the boys got active for about 15 minutes and then settled back in the shade. Much to my surprise Olimar flushed his dad out from beneath the nest box. I guess he thought it was a quiet place to rest in the shade without Midnight and the kids bothering him.
1:15 PM- The female went ballistic alarm calling and joined by the male circled over the middle of the buildings. My first thought was that one of the checks have flown. I went to the rear of MEC 3 and with a little difficulty found both Josally and Olimar At one point. the male was on the SW corner of the nest building and a female was on top of the nest box.
1:45 PM- Did another walk about but couldn’t find Josally on MEC 3. All the other birds were present on MEC 1. I concentrated on checking around the base of the buildings north of Robert Speck Parkway,( 1 and 3.) No luck. I went north and I saw Olimar warming up. As I came around the base of 1 Roberts Speck. I found much to my surprise Josally (Who had been hiding in the window well), but also Olimar who had fledged and just flown over there as I rounded the back of the building. The male was also close to Olimar so he would probably followed him over there.
3 :00 PM.- While the 2 brothers reacquainted themselves over at MEC 3 Dad flew over and reclaimed his spot on the top of the nest box. And mom decided she’d almost run that Turkey vulture in the traffic on Hurontario.
5:30 PM- As I was just finishing up my supper, and thinking I only had 5-5 1/2 half hours to go, who pulled up but Winston to relieve me. After explaining to him what happened over the last few days. I gratefully headed home to get some sleep.
Posted on June 6, 2016 8:09 am
June 06, 2016 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Caught a cam shot of all four kids this morning on the web camera and there is very little down left to be shed. Local watchers have reported that they are starting to get very active on the ledge running, flapping and of course screaming for food. Looks like the kids are getting ready.
If anyone has time to share at the Islington and Bloor nest we would love to have you join us. Bruce Massey will be spearheading the bulk of the watch as he will flip from the MEC boys down to Etobicoke Wednesday morning. Until that time it will be patchy coverage and we could use all the help we can get to support this family. If you have any time to share please contact our head office at 416-481-1233 or email me at tracy@peregrine-foundation.ca.
Posted on June 6, 2016 7:58 am
June 05, 2016 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Marilyn Weller Reports:
The 5 fledglings are getting lots of exercise and growing quickly. Paul sent some photos this evening showing a feeding time and a parent carrying in a meal for the young.
Looks like there should be some first flights very soon!
Posted on June 5, 2016 9:10 pm
June 05, 2016 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/Web_Cams/Harlequin_Don_Mills/index.htm
Posted on June 5, 2016 8:10 pm
June 05, 2016 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
What to do on a rainy day.
Posted on June 5, 2016 4:44 pm
June 05, 2016 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
All 4 still on ledge this morning no fledge yet.
Posted on June 5, 2016 10:18 am
June 04, 2016 - Toronto - Hearn Power Station
Mark Nash Reports:
June 4th - 2016
The second nest site visit of the day, it was down to the Hearn plant on Unwin Ave to check up on the status and activities of the resident Hearn peregrines. It was only seconds after my arrival that I was able to locate the resident adult male roosting way up on one of the smoke stacks blinking white lights,,, - (approx. 3/4 the way up the old smokestack). Minutes later, the adult female appeared from the south and landed on the upper superstructure roof only meters from her mate. For the next three plus hours, I watched them interact with one another, including two different hunting forays.
Sadly, both birds were too far away for me to get any leg band numbers, but it was quite obvious that the two peregrines are very much still calling the Hearn plant their home.
At no point during the 3 plus hours that I was there, did I see either one of the peregrines go into or come out of a nesting location on the plant and neither of them spent any of their time to the north of the superstructure. They both spent most of their time roosting on the same spots that we had observed the pair on in several seasons past.
As such, I don’t believe that the pair have produced any offspring so far this season. 
Posted on June 5, 2016 5:11 am
June 04, 2016 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Bruce Massey Reports:
First full day of fledge watch started at MEC today. I arrived at around 5:30 am and found Josally ( Blue tape) on top of the roof ledge closely watched by his father. Olimar (Red tape) was still on the nest ledge close to the nest box. Olimar is certainly ready for first flights as he is readily jumping the gap and flapping like mad. Needless to say both adults stayed relatively close either perched on the window washing davit arms or on fairly close buildings.
Up until the later afternoon, most of the of feeding went to Josally who remained on the retaining wall of the nest building roof where he was released. Olimar did get occasionally fed small amounts. It was kinda funny because when Dad fed Josally was very aggressive. He grabbed the food from him and quickly turned his back in a full mantle over it. Now when mom fed him he tried to fight her for it but instead ended up being beak fed, Mommy’s orders. Olimar had mastered ledge hopping, really more like ledge flying, quite well throughout the day. He also mastered jumping up on to the nest box and was very proud of the fact that he was on top and dad had to sit on the landing platform.
Just after 5 PM Josally saw his brother doing some ledge hopping and decided he wanted to play too. He fluttered down from the roof and almost landed on his brother. He was back on the nest ledge level even though the landing wasn’t too pretty. Just when I thought that Josally had mastered flight, I watched him slip, do the bat maneuver for about 5 minutes and frantically tried to get back up to the ledge that he was just a few inches away from. When that didn’t work, he let go and flew over to the northwest corner of MEC 3. Please don’t ask me to score his landing as I think he was trying to land on the top level, but instead pancaked into the wall and dropped down to the ledge below. I still have to give him credit, as clumsy as he seems to be, he does seem to think through the situation and is able to keep calm and react in the right way.
Around 9 o’clock Olimar seemed to go out of sight in the box and I was able to check the camera and it appeared he was laying down. Josally was quite comfortable in his spot over on MEC 3 under the sign. Renegade took up position on the southwest corner of the nest building for the evening and even though I didn’t see Midnight in my view, I decided to call it a night at about 9pm
Posted on June 5, 2016 12:01 am
June 04, 2016 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Mark Nash Reports:
June 4th - 2016
With a short brake from the bandings, I was finally able to get back to finishing our site visits in an effort to get an update on what’s been happening at several of the other nest sites,, as we’re looking for second clutches and new hatches. Today, I was able to complete and visit three sites, including the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site at Progress and Milner in Scarborough.
With Paul’s support, I attended the upper roof top walkway and checked the new nest location of Linn and her new mate. While the resident adult male was no where to be seen during my visit,, Linn was on site, and in fine form!! Linn’s Black over Green leg band 91 over V was very visible during my visit. Linn, the long standing resident adult female greeted us moments after exiting the door to the upper roof walkway.
We were quickly reminded that “she” is the lord and master and that the upper elevations are hers and hers only! It was quite obvious that we were not welcomed guests!! With Paul defending, I was able to briefly get my camera up and over the top of the retaining wall ledge and snapped a couple of photos of the nest ledge below.
Just at that moment, I felt the sting on the top of my head as Linn made yet another full contact hit! Paul and I quickly headed for the cover behind the retaining wall, eventually making our way around the south side of the building, and finally to safety and under cover behind the exit door. The entire event was something out of Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie “The Birds”,, but this time we were the victim’s !!!! Oh my goodness, this girl is a no-nonsense peregrine!!
During the brief encounter, (yes we were being aggressively pursued, dive-bombed and stooped on with full contact hits), I was able to snap a few photos of Linn as she kited above us during her set ups for additional stoops and dive-bombing runs.
Lets just say, it would be understatement to say that we were both pleased to be off the roof and under cover!
Much to my delight, I was able to confirm that there was at least two very healthy hatchlings on the nest ledge! While there may have been a third hatchling under the overhang, there was no way I was going to hang around with my back exposed to Linn any longer with this bird. The photos should tell the story.
Posted on June 4, 2016 11:20 pm
