Crazy Canuck comes down again!
June 10, 2020 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
DAY 6 FLEDGE WATCH TORONTO/DON MILLS/OLD HARLEQUIN: Well, the day started out well–Carolyn opened the watch and reported that Canuck flew to 225(across the street) and got well fed by a parent! The girls were not happy lol. I went over to check on ICICI and came back to watch for a few hours. Canuck flew back onto the nest ledge, the girls got fed and it was HOT. So things slowed down, and finally Quest came in for the afternoon siesta. So I headed back over to ICICI to check on the family there. I was there for just over an hour when Carolyn called: we had a bird down! I headed right over and found Carolyn watching over….CANUCK! What the heck Canuck-he had been flying so well. Carolyn had just stepped off the bus, when she saw him flying a bit low so watched. He tried for 225, missed, headed for the nest ledge, missed, and then went across to the copper glass building where he batted, clung by a talon to the flat glass for quite a bit, before falling down, into a small tree(very small) and then to the ground. Carolyn caught up to see him head off, low across,and around to the back of the nest building and land on the back “porch”. Which has a glass railing around the porch and building. Well, he managed to fly up and over(well done!) but by now he had run out of steam. Too hot, humid out-he should have listened to his Mom and stayed put for the afternoon siesta! He landed on the curb at the very back of the building, which runs along the FOREST!! Noooo. At least he stopped there. So there I found him, and Carolyn. He was panting poor thing. Now, I wasn’t going to try and rescue him on my own and send him into that forest, no way. Since Marion & Mark were on their way anyways, I called and told them the situation and waited for them. When they got there, Carolyn had to head back to work–thanks again to her for staying with our boy and letting me know where he was and what had happened!! So now , rescue was on! Mark went into the forest and came up on him from behind, while Marion & I distracted him. He caught sight of Mark just as he got there, he jumped onto the grating in front of him–and stopped–ick what was this?? And Mark netted him(Marion was a second behind with the towel lol). Mark gently got him out of the net and we got him into the crate–he was NOT happy but he was ok. By now, the wind had whipped up incredibly and we are under severe thunderstorm watch for tonight. So the decision was made to wait and release him on the roof first thing in the morning. I will release him at dawn to a very happy Mom & Dad. The rest of the day was very uneventful as it was so windy and so very very hot, the girls just hung around, thank goodness. Sally, Don & Bob joined us to finish out the watch. Glad the heat will be gone tomorrow-our Crazy Canuck will be home and maybe Seven will fly!! I have put the rescue photos first 
