It’s catch up time!!
June 29, 2021 - Toronto - Don Mills and Eglinton - Amexon
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Now that we’re back up and running…time to finish off 2021!! Going to try and do it in one fell swoop to catch everyone up before going into a new season!! Here goes nothing lol
DON MILLS /AMEXON FLEDGE WATCH 2021 : DAY FIVE.
Bruce, (bless him, I actually slept in a bit!!) opened the watch this morning. He watched Flynn working on a food drop(Dad??), then about a half hour later, Milli brought her a very small package. Thank goodness.. Maybe having Dad there, and Flynn, has kicked in her maternal instincts?? We’ll see. After that it was pretty quiet. It’s extremely hot out here. I joined Bruce later in the morning. Dad was on the ICICI sign facing north(shade!). Milli was on the nest ledge and Flynn was on the corner facing northeast. She made her way over to above the nest ledge eventually. Cried at her mother, who flew off for a bit. Bruce headed out (thanks again Bruce!). It was getting dark to the northwest (thunderstorms were called for all afternoon), so I decided to pack up and sit in the car. I watched Milli come out of the nest ledge with a package! What? A storm is coming… She flew out over the DVP (ugh) and came back onto the nest ledge. Was she trying to get Flynn to fly(but why over there?) or was she trying to get Logan home? Dad was off like a shot to just the north of her but came back shortly after, just as it started to pour. And boy did it come down. I decided to go for lunch! Glad I did as the thunder started right after. It was quite a storm, lots of rain, thunder. Sally and I headed over when there was a break in the evening. Driving up we noticed a parent over on the condo across the DVP. Watching Logan? . We checked out as much as we could. Still raining on and off. So off to see how Flynn made out… Still on rooftop! Handled the storm well… Way to go Flynn. Dad was on his favourite sign. No sign of Milli. Then the thunder and lightening started, and rain. We stayed for a bit (in the car), finally left after Flynn jumped down out of sight (smart girl). The storms are supposed to be gone by tomorrow afternoon so hopefully Flynn will be fed and get to do some flying… And maybe Logan will be able to make it home…
DAY SIX:
I arrived to find no one. Sigh. Maybe Flynn will pop up when Dad and Milli show up. Nope. They flew in a little bit later and not a peep from her. Darn, not on site. I had already checked out all around, so kept checking, no Flynn. Lucie joined me and brought her scope! So as she was checking, I decided to do a walk about as I had seen both parents fly to the north. I put my bins up to check across Eglinton and there she was! Popped up on a rooftop on Wynford Dr! I was calling Lucie, and she was calling me, as she saw her too! I then left to get Sally.
Sally reports:
Joined Cathy and Lucie to watch the “bump on the log” yesterday and to help Cathy close the watch.
After a few hours, a parent eventually took food over to Flynn, who snatched the food, while the other parent settled south on 150 to watch.
We took advantage of Flynn eating to drive over to an excellent spot to watch the interaction between juvie and parent. Parent was alarm calling on and off, not highly agitated (maybe at the people walking by as it wasn’t that high up) and we’ve been told that Quest, Mystery, Milli and Chester will be able to see each other’s territories and nest site areas so perhaps the parent could see the family to the north? Cathy and I chuckled that perhaps Flynn was being given a pep talk. She needed to fly back and get a bit higher.
Around 8;39pm, the parent left Flynn picking at her food, and headed east but we weren’t sure where they’d landed. Cathy and I took turns taking some photos of the beautiful westerly light, illuminating the parent watching from 150.
OK, it was now 9:15 and we hoped Flynn would settle there for the night, but nope. as darkness closed in, she started flapping and took off towards the nest building. Parents immediately came in from where they’d been watching to help her. After her window bonks, and not yet actually seeing her land well (always finding her already on a low roof etc) it was good to see her slow down and pull up as if aiming to make contact with talons out. But the light was poor and we were straining to watch where she’d land. Damn she bumped the vertical class corner, came out and made for the other building, but seemed to blindly fly around it (maybe she was now in a bit of a panic). A parent definitely bumped her up before we lost sight of her. Oh Flynn. Now it was dark but the building grounds are well lit. We drove back over there and walked all around each building to ensure she wasn’t on the ground. Scanned the ledges but by now the lights were casting misleading shadows
I think it was after 10:30 when we finally headed home and decided that we would get up at the crack of dawn to find our girl
After a few hours, a parent eventually took food over to Flynn, who snatched the food, while the other parent settled south on 150 to watch.
We took advantage of Flynn eating to drive over to an excellent spot to watch the interaction between juvie and parent. Parent was alarm calling on and off, not highly agitated (maybe at the people walking by as it wasn’t that high up) and we’ve been told that Quest, Mystery, Milli and Chester will be able to see each other’s territories and nest site areas so perhaps the parent could see the family to the north? Cathy and I chuckled that perhaps Flynn was being given a pep talk. She needed to fly back and get a bit higher.
Around 8;39pm, the parent left Flynn picking at her food, and headed east but we weren’t sure where they’d landed. Cathy and I took turns taking some photos of the beautiful westerly light, illuminating the parent watching from 150.
OK, it was now 9:15 and we hoped Flynn would settle there for the night, but nope. as darkness closed in, she started flapping and took off towards the nest building. Parents immediately came in from where they’d been watching to help her. After her window bonks, and not yet actually seeing her land well (always finding her already on a low roof etc) it was good to see her slow down and pull up as if aiming to make contact with talons out. But the light was poor and we were straining to watch where she’d land. Damn she bumped the vertical class corner, came out and made for the other building, but seemed to blindly fly around it (maybe she was now in a bit of a panic). A parent definitely bumped her up before we lost sight of her. Oh Flynn. Now it was dark but the building grounds are well lit. We drove back over there and walked all around each building to ensure she wasn’t on the ground. Scanned the ledges but by now the lights were casting misleading shadows
I think it was after 10:30 when we finally headed home and decided that we would get up at the crack of dawn to find our girl
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