I got to the Rogers Centre around 10 this morning. In the past, all I’ve seen are the adults. But to my surprise, I had a female juvie above the Rec Room sign. I’ll try and back down there in a couple of days to see if there are more.
Amy & Pip started the watch early this morning at 6:15. It took them a bit to locate Jewel and found her on the top of the tower vocalizing. The adults were also accounted for. At 8:25 Heather reported that Jewel took a short flight and located her on the small drum. She remained there for a few hours. Micah witnessed her taking another flight while the parents flew back and forth between the 2 CTV towers. Jewel flew back into the nest box!
Corona’s release was scheduled for 1:30. She was released on top of King’s Tower. The adults immediately spotted her and started vocalizing and swooping around the top of the building, showing Corona how to catch the wind, and flying back towards the nest box. Corona took off a few minutes later and made a successful flight past KCI and back on top of King’s Tower. CTV captured the action:
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2468153
At 2:53, Karen reported that Corona successfully flew back to the nest box! At 3:44, David reported that Corona was on the railing of the hospital side of the tower, while Jewel was flaked out inside the nest box. At 4:15, both parents were back, one with a meal teasing the fledglings. Corona remained on the railing while Jewel hopped between the box & platform. At 4:27, David reported that Corona had another successful flight to the hospital roof. She remained there for 3 hours and at 7:30 she flew back to the CTV tower and landed safely on the top railing. At the end of the watch Tara reported that Corona took a few more flights, landing higher up on the tower, and then made it lower and eventually made it back to the same level as the nest box. Jewel popped her head out from the nest box a few times. She was hunkered down in the box until around 11:00 p.m.
Photos courtesy of Karen von Knobloch & A. Becker
POT CHECK DON MILLS : I checked on the fab four last night after all the winds and all 4 were accounted for! I could only positively ID Nitro but definitely saw all four. The wind was unreal, I could hardly get a picture lol. Glad they were all good. I did a very quick check this afternoon and only saw 2 juvies and Quest and Mystery. I went this evening hoping to enjoy some flying but there was a bunch of kids partying there so I just stayed in my car and checked. I only positively ID’d Zigzag. First he was on roof of the nest building but the noise from the party sent him off. I next saw him being chased by one of his brothers to the back of 225, he safely landed on a ledge. But not for long, off he went. Both parents were on the nest ledge. Dad took off with a juvie chasing. Then I saw another flying low past the copper building going north. Next Zigzag was back around and chose to land on the top ledge back of 225. Next I saw 2 juvies over the parking lot next to the nest building, and one was doing a dive, and then Quest was off like a shot(to intercept?) and next thing I saw was the 2 juvies chasing mom out of sight. Wish I could have seen more but I wasn’t comfortable staying there by myself. Still quite windy but they seem to be handling it well. Hope to see all 4 tomorrow!
Red has pulled off her red tape need a name for her. pictures from her second release. She and her siblings are flying high now hope we can wind down the watch today.
All was quiet on the home front yesterday.
Braveheart was seen flying around a bit and was “allowed” back in the nest by the girls.
Girls did a lot of wing flapping but no flying.
Thanks to Maggie Pawlak for the pictures.
Hi Marion,
Just a note to advise that we have ended our Fledge Watch but everyone will be monitoring around the buildings over the next few days to make sure there are no fledgeling accidents, etc. All 4 were gone from the nest as of yesterday morning and Duchess and Braveheart were spotted with dad, Indie, on the top ledge yesterday evening where he was enjoying his meal and ignoring the chicks. We released Diana on Thursday about 10 pm on the rooftop of 288 and surprisingly we could hear mom, Aria, circling in the dark above us and squawking. She’s an amazing mom!
Just a little concerned that we haven’t seen Victoria at all nor Diana after her release. Hopefully mom knows where they are and is looking after them.
Amy & Piper reported a pretty quiet morning. Breakfast was delivered. Corona is still flapping alot and both Jewel and Corona were on the porch with a parent sitting above for most of the time. Karen took over the watch at 9:15 and reported that “the kids have been fairly quiet, both adults are around and have taken short flights here and there. Ralph stopped in and Heather is here for her shift. All 4 are accounted for at the moment. The girls both have huge crops. One of the adults took off and bumped a turkey vulture who was in their air space. In the image of the parents together on the tower, pretty sure the one on the railing is the Mom judging by the larger size and is a little browner than the male who is just above her. He seems a bit more slate gray in colour and smaller in stature.” Heather reported a quiet watch at 1:00.
Kim and Tim took over the watch at 4:45. One girl was in the nest box and an adult was on the platform in front of the nest box. Jewel was lower down in the tower. Less than an hour later, Kim and Tim rescued Corona! Tim saw Jewel take a flight with one of the parents from the small barrel just over from the tower. Kim reported: About 10 minutes later I saw Corona take off and took a loop on the Pine St side, tried to land, missed and ended up on King Street!! I don’t think I have yelled at cars to stop that loud in my life. What a day!!!!” Rudy did an assessment a short time later and reported Corona had no injuries. Good news! Jewel was reported to be in the middle of the platform of the top platform when last seen by Kellie.
Photos courtesy of Karen von Knobloch & Kellie Superina
June 3 - 9
The chicks are growing rapidly before our eyes. Both Jewel and Corona are feeding well and have filled out nicely. In no time at all, the baby fluff has disappeared.
June 14
Karen reported that there was a lot of flapping particularly by Corona this morning. The entire family can be seen in the image with the tower, both adults and the girls are on the ‘deck’. The adults were trying a few times to entice them to come out to play but no takers.
I came for a watch at about 7:30 with 2 screaming babies. Around 8 was treated to the parents flying higher and higher, circling over Kings towers (chasing each other). The girls were screaming at them. The adults flew in and out, one on Kings Tower antennae for a bit. A few minutes later one flew in and brought dinner and landed on the small antenna for a few seconds vocalizing before it flew off again.
June 15
Sandye reported this morning: “All peregrines are on the tower. There was a lot of noise and flying around by the parents a short while ago as there were workmen up on the roof of CTV.
A great blue heron flew over and we saw the chimney swifts several times. Not much flapping from the young since I have been here.”
Amy reported: “Very quiet this evening. When we initially arrived the ladies were both on the porch with some flapping and vocalizing. They settled before long. Both parents came and went though we didn’t see any food delivery. We witnessed a turkey vulture getting a little too close. Mom and Dad chased it off pretty quickly. It was extremely warm.”
June 16
Ralph started the morning watch. Both young were visible, one standing close to the ledge, occasionally flapping. Both parents were perched above taking turns swooping off to ward off the kettle of vultures. Tara reported later on that Corona was spending a lot of time on the ledge, flapping. Some fledging should happen soon!
We had a small training session this evening. The kettle of vultures came by again, attracted to the nest box. Both adults took up the chase numerous times. Pigeons were hurriedly flying by.
June 17
Amy reported this morning: “Breakfast for the kids arrived when I did. Other than eating, both girls were on the porch for pretty much the whole hour I was there. Witnessed a successful take down of a pigeon for the adult’s breakfast as well. It rained feathers from the tower for quite some time. When I left both girls were sitting on the porch preening and parents were on the top platform.” Sandye and Ralph were on the later morning watch, which was pretty quiet. Both adults were on the tower and one chick was coming in and out of the nest box and sitting on the ledge. Elaine reported that the evening watch was also fairly quiet, a bit of wing flapping and a food drop.
Photos courtesy of Karen von Knobloch
Photos of released fledgling at Mount Sinai Hospital as promised. pictures taken by Tracey Clatworthy
Bruce Reports the other 2 fledglings flying well. Lets hope Red who has now picked off her red tape keeps her altitude and improves.
Mark dropped me off at Canada Square to head down to Mount Sinai Hospital to release Red on the roof again.
At first I did not see any of the chicks but minutes later I saw one of the fledglings fly in from the north and attempt to land on RioCan it missed and recovered and flew back for a second attempt, this time landing safely on the top under the letter C , dad flew in behind him and did a couple flyovers before taking off back to the north.
While I was looking at that chick another flew in and joined him. I watched the 2 for a few minutes and saw the bands on the last one that arrived it was yellow. So now I have Neven for sure. I kept a close eye on the other trying to get a band as they were both very active with lots of wing flapping in the wind gusts.
A movement caught my eye above the 2 and I focused by binoculars on an bump above them on the grill-work that holds the letters RioCan it was another fledgling laying down flat as a pancake. Great I have 3 fledglings.
I watched them all closely only taking my eyes off them to wipe some of the grit that was getting in my eyes stirred up by the high wind gusts whipping up the dust from the construction site.
Finally the first fledgling got close to the edge and I focused on it legs in time to catch a leg stretch there are no bands on that leg yippee it’s our unbanded Jamie.
I could see the a band color on the higher one that was on the grill work as it just would not show the lower leg.
Mark arrived at about 5:00 PM and just in time to see another fledgling fly in from the north and land with it’s siblings on RioCan. Well we get to end the day with all 4 chicks in sight and all safe.
Now that Jamie has returned and shown me he can attain and stay up on a building as high as RioCan I decided to wind down the watch to spot checks and take a couple days rest before we start the next fledge watch at another site. I think although dads job is just beginning since all the chicks seemed to have followed dad in from the north it looks like they found his man cave lol. Over the next weeks the chicks are going to learn how to be a top predator at dads top-gun peregrine school.
Hey got some funny news about Noah I was sitting at fanshawe watching an Osprey in a tree getting ready to fish and along he comes and dive bombs the osprey in the tree then landed in the tree here for about 40 mins before he flew off ! I saw a peregrine here last year that looks the same as him also would have been septemberish ! What a coincidence I’ll send a pic when I get home maybe he’s living in the London area ♂
