April 28, 2021 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
DON MILLS UPDATE: Great news! We have a hatch…or two? Congrats to Quest & Mystery! I have been dropping by daily, waiting to catch a feeding and was rewarded tonight!! Mystery brought a nice package for his growing family. There was even a nice moment where they both looked at the kids! Mystery was off and Quest got down to business and fed her brood. She lovingly talked to them the whole time, it was so sweet. I will be watching to find out how many we have over the next week and of course, as they grow. I added a couple of pics from the last few days as well.
Posted on April 28, 2021 8:52 pm
April 27, 2021 - CPF Events
Marion Nash Reports:
As reported early this spring Bacquerel band number X over 75 produced at
the Ontario Power Generation Pickering nest in 2017 had been found in
Downtown Toronto injured and taken to Toronto Wildlife. We expected that he
had gotten into a fight with the male from the 18 King site since he had
been seen there only a couple of weeks prior.
I am happy to report that he was finally been given the green light to be
released. Today we sent Mark Nash to pick him up and take him to be released
in an area with no other peregrine nests and loads of prey. All went well
and Bacquerel flew off free from captivity and as a bachelor free from
responsibility but we hope the latter will change soon this time without
getting into a fight.
Posted on April 27, 2021 7:44 pm
April 27, 2021 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
As reported early this spring Bacquerel band number X over 75 produced at
the Ontario Power Generation Pickering nest in 2017 had been found in
Downtown Toronto injured and taken to Toronto Wildlife. We expected that he
had gotten into a fight with the male from the 18 King site since he had
been seen there only a couple of weeks prior.
I am happy to report that he was finally been given the green light to be
released. Today we sent Mark Nash to pick him up and take him to be released
in an area with no other peregrine nests and loads of prey. All went well
and Bacquerel flew off free from captivity and as a bachelor free from
responsibility but we hope the latter will change soon this time without
getting into a fight.
Posted on April 27, 2021 7:32 pm
April 26, 2021 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Kathy Reports:
Two babies now!! Saw the cracked egg around 2 pm and now during feed there are 2!
Posted on April 27, 2021 1:12 pm
April 26, 2021 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Marion Nash Reports:
The first hatch happened this morning 
Thanks to Kathy for spotting and the snapshot from the web cam.
Posted on April 26, 2021 11:50 am
April 17, 2021 - Toronto - Don Mills and Eglinton - Amexon
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Don Mills/Amexon Update: I have been observing new pair Chester and Milli over the past weeks. The last mating (that I saw) was last Thursday and this past Thursday I witnessed an exchange from the nest ledge. So, my son and I went up to the roof to check yesterday. When we got there we saw one peregrine on the roof and I was pretty sure it was Milli. Up we went and as soon as I popped my head over, Chester took one look and took off, as he always does. Thanks Chester, I got a good look at 4 eggs! I snapped a couple of pics and backed away as both peregrines were flying and buzzing us, tho only Milli was alarm calling. She was not impressed. Chester took off once I was away from the ledge(I somehow got a couple of pics of them, not great but..) but Milli stayed, calling until we were down the ladder. All was quiet when we left. So, hatch in about a month, more or less. My son and I will be watching for the little fluff balls then.
Posted on April 18, 2021 4:53 pm
April 02, 2021 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Marion Nash Reports:
Just a quick update and some better news to report!
A resident adult pair is on-site and courtship has begun!
Today I had an opportunity to re-visit the Scarborough nest site at the old Yellow Pages building on Milner Ave in Scarborough. A huge thanks again to Petra and security for accommodating me for a second site visit to take a more detailed look at the situation and activities of the resident peregrines. As you know by my previous report last week, we responded to security’s call of a dead falcon laying on one of the upper elevations on the nest building and found a deceased sub-adult male peregrine. Given the evidence, it was quite clear that this sub-adult male had collided with the window and died on impact. The impact site on the window was clearly visible with the tell-tail sign of the bird’s preen oil power stain on the glass.
What made this particular death initially suspecious and concerning it that the bird was an urban produced and raised peregrine,, one that was produced in an urban environment, on a similar hi-rise glass building,, and one that already learned and experienced bumps with the glass,, and survived to the sub-adult hood age. Unlike many other smaller birds that never seem to understand the dangers of hitting the glass, peregrines do in fact learn as we documented over the years, and rarely make the same mistakes twice when it comes to hitting the glass..
We highly suspected that there were likely “other factors involved” that caused this urban savvy peregrine to make a mortal impact with the glass… as this is usually the case.
That said, our suspensions were confirmed today as a result of my second visit today a to the likely reason we have a deceased sub-adult male at the site.
After a very detailed walk around of the upper elevations of the nest building this afternoon and several hours of ground time observations, I can now confirm a number of things,,
1.- That there are no new eggs as yet on any of the usual/available nest ledges.
2. - That there is still an adult “pair” of peregrines that are still very active both on and around the nest building.
3. - the pair are very actively involved in courtship routines, and it appears that they have selected a nesting ledge spot on the building again this year as much of their focus and attention was concentrated on one particular ledge. The pair was observed in several rounds of copulation activities during my ground time observations.
While I can not confirm what actually caused the younger sub-adult to collide with the building’s glass windows as we have witnessed to the death, I highly suspect that a territorial dispute and conflict with the resident adult male had a lot to do with it.
Unfortunately, I was not armed with a spotting scope during this visit so I can not confirm the identity of the resident pair (or if they are even banded) due to the distances involved from the ground to the upper building elevations where most of the bird activities took place.
I will be back again next week to do another follow-up.
It is also worth noting that the roofing contractors are still working on the building’s roof areas, although still well below the actual nest ledge level.
Mark Nash
Posted on April 7, 2021 12:09 pm
April 05, 2021 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Marion Nash Reports:
Aria laid an egg today so lets hope the invading female does not return.
Posted on April 5, 2021 11:30 am
April 04, 2021 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Marion Nash Reports:
The two females then flew around for a bit chasing each other and landed on the
grass in front of the Club House, between the parking lot and the street and carried on their fight.
With the help of Marlen Cater, Barb Blair and me, we were able to get the two apart.
Last seen right before dusk still chasing each other in flight.
We understand they do not fight in dark! So, who knows what will happen tomorrow!!
Meanwhile Indie was simply sitting around watching the episode, feeding himself!
On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 20:48, Martin J Dekkers
My last sighting as dusk came in was Indie on the top ledge and Aria exercising her wings and appeared to be eating. Will continue to monitor tomorrow and hope that is the last threat for Indie - she is so powerful. Thanks Mark for your advice to approach them on the ground to frighten and separate them - thanks to Martin for taking the stick out of the garden and getting them apart. What a team - chat later - Marlene
Photos by Martin Dekkers and Barb Blair
Posted on April 5, 2021 11:28 am
April 01, 2021 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Don Mills update : I stopped by on my way home Thursday to find Quest hanging out on a balcony, south side, of the copper building. It was a cold, very windy day. At first her back was to me but she turned shortly after (to show me her good side). Mystery was down on the eggs in the nest box. All good there!️
Posted on April 3, 2021 7:28 pm
