Marta takes flight
June 11, 2016 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
June 11th - 2016
Bob was the first one on site this morning and found that Marta had finally left the nest building where she was dangerously low to the sidewalk and roadway. She had flown to the ledge 2 floors down from the rooftop of 240 next door so we were pleased to see she had gained some height. She spent the morning there alone until the early afternoon when her brother Jet decided to drop in to visit his sister and the 2 spent time together playing, snuggling and beak touching it was very sweat but when mom flew over with food it was every fledgeling for himself and he flew off in pursuit of lunch leaving Marta flapping and yelling on the ledge.
2 of the boys got fed on the roof above her and shortly after she took another awkward flight around to the front of the building and landed on the ledge about 1 floor lower but still ok. She had not been fed the day before as the adults refused to bring food to her so low, only 2 floors up from ground again, so she was very eager now, flapping and yelling and running the ledge and we could see she was going to go again so we had the net in hand ready to run to get her just in case. About 15 minutes later she took off across the street towards Harlequin and bumped a window and landed in the parking lot.
We slowly approached to try to catch her but she flew back across the street before we could get close enough to net her and again landed on the ground. We finally caught her in the net and checked her over to see if the window bump have caused any injury and found her to be just fine.
Shortly after we took her back up to the roof just above the nest to be realised just as we had for all 3 of her brothers but this time the bird bolted off the roof and across the street over my head wile I watched from below and Mark watched from the roof flew well out of our site behind 255 Duncan Mill and now the search was on to find her.
Mark and I went looking for her and were joined by her name sake Marta Kline and Cathy Kerr and we looked for her well into the evening and could not find where she had landed so we closed the evening watching the boys flying around like little F16’s hoping that from where ever she had gotten to she may see them and come to join her family but that was not to happen. If she is not back we will have to try to find her again tomorrow.
All three of the young fledgling males are flying like superstars with high altitude flying and soaring, playing tag and chasing both one another and their parents around like pros!
While they are still being spoon fed by Quest, and have allot of things to learn before they will be self sufficient, at least they are able to hold their altitude and stay out of trouble off the ground!!
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