Banding day for the William Osler Hospital Peregrine chicks is set for June 3rd. at 10:00 AM. Photos and banding information to follow.
Banding day will be May 28th at 1:00 PM. Climbers will will scale the CTV tower and catch up the chicks for banding and remain on the tower to distract the adults while CPF volunteers band the baby falcons.
Stay tuned for photos and banding information.
Security at Canada Square sent me a photo of the hatch. Stay tuned for banding information.
Got an email from a camera watcher that we have had the first chick hatch!
I went up to check the rooftop last week and found no new nest unfortunately….I had only seen one adult all week so I was holding out hope that perhaps they had chosen the original nest building for the second clutch but alas, on my way into work this morning I saw two adults on the letters. And since normally once Jenna lays her eggs, they usually don’t leave them, esp. since it was a very cold, rainy and windy morning, I don’t think it looks like we will have any babies this year. It will be the first year since we started watching this nest that it has failed to produce at least one youngster. I will really miss my fledge watch here but I will continue to watch the comings and goings of this beautiful pair
As reported earlier, we confirmed a hatch on Tuesday. So Sally and I decided to spend some time Saturday trying to see how many….. And we weren’t disappointed!! We definitely saw 3 babies!!! And possibly a fourth, but it’s a long way from the parking garage roof top and we can’t confirm it… Yet!! We saw a feeding by Quest and Dad was across the way, watching from the roof top. We will be keeping an eye on this nest and we will keep you posted!!
Windsor Site Coordinator, Paul Gosselin reports that he observed Daisy and Victor carefully feeding chicks for about 7 minutes this morning. While he has not been able to see any heads popping up over the edge of the nest tray yet, he thinks there may be at least 2 chicks this year.
May 10th 2019
Well, I have some both good news and some bad news to report today after visiting the Scarborough nest site this afternoon.
First the good news,, I met an old friend again this afternoon at the Scarborough nest site, and was greeted by Linn, the long standing resident adult female, hatched in Rochester NY at the old Kodak nest site, banded Black 91 over Green V.
After a very brief re-introduction and with the resident adult male stooping and diving only inches from my head,, Linn joined him as she came up from the nest ledge and quickly landed on the upper retaining wall ledge. Without missing a wing-beat, she quickly ran down the ledge towards me,, (or should I say at me) in an effort to shew me away,, at it worked!!
It only took a second for me to realize that she meant serious business and was not in the mood to entertain houseguests and I managed to get out of her way as she was only inches away from my face!! Linn is a no-nonsense full body contact gal!!
I was able to snap a single photo of the nest nedge, and saw only one egg, (that the adult male was incubating at the time).
The not so good news, is ofcourse only one egg was present. It might appear that the unusual (un-seasonal cold damp rainy spring has taken its toll on a number of southern Ontario nest sites this year),, with little to no production of eggs and failed nest sites altogether that we have been recording so far this spring.
Unfortunately, I was not able to identify the resident adult male, as he never stopped stooping at me the entire visit, and with Linn on the pursuit, I wasn’t hanging around!!
Enjoy the photos, the best I could do under the circumstance……… DUCK!!! and I don’t mean quack quack!!
Hamilton still incubating. although the first couple eggs are very overdue perhaps the last 1 or 2 will still hatch!
4 eggs laid and still waiting on a hatch according to observations hatch should be soon.
