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Sunday Morning -Neven was rescued and released a second time

June 12, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Michael from the construction site behind 2200 Young st, called at 7:00 am to let me know he had another fledgling in a box in his office trailer, their 3rd rescue from that site and he would hold him for us until we got there. It turned out to be Neven again. Thank goodness Mickle was working on a Sunday or we would not have been able to access the constriction site and we are so grateful for the help from the crew there.

Mark and I saw Sasha who was released yesterday sitting on the balcony rail just outside the balcony door and if we released Neven now it might cause Sasha to bolt off in a panic flight so the release of Neven would have to wait until she flew off on her own or until darkness.

We sat in our watch spot and waited. Sasha did take flight, she flew west and tried to hook back to the nest building but missed and recovered and turned to try for the concrete columns the adults like to sit on on the RioCan building but missed that as well, again she recovered and landed on the lower building on the corner of Duplex and Eglinton that we call the copper building because of t’s color.

We could release Neven now but because Sasha was now on a building roof only 8 floors up we knew from experience at this sight that she would have a hard time getting any more altitude if she flew off now since there was no wind at all to assist her so we waited to see if she would go or stay.

About 45 minutes later Haven flew off the top of RioCan in a high sped dive and we figured she was on the hunt and Sasha was sitting and preening her feathers quite relaxed so Mark took Neven to do the release.

A few minutes later I saw Haven come back with a big pigeon and flew into the nest to feed little Jamie the last chick still on the nest. Since she was busy feeding and could not see the balcony from there it was safe for Mark to put Neven out but just as he opened to door to release him she flew off the nest with the rest of the food package over to Sasha and began to feed her and caught sight of Mark and the bell sounded for round 1.

Haven took off screaming got some height and dove on Mark at high speed and was joined by dad. Mark bent down as low as he could, released Neven and had to almost crawl back into the office and closed to door. Success!

Haven sat on the ledge above Neven for quite some time watching him below on the balcony and when Mark came back out to join me on the street she was still there waiting for round 2.

While all this excitement and screaming from the adults was going on Sasha was chowing down the pigeon Haven left on the ledge with her like nothing was wrong at all. Haven finally feeling confident Mark had thrown in the towel flew over to Sasha to see if she could grab what might be left of the pigeon and perhaps to feed Neven but it was obvious Sasha had no intention of giving it up.
I got a call from a lady who lives at 8 Eglinton Ave on the 6th floor who told me there was a falcon on her balcony with a green band on its leg and that it had just flow off 5 minutes ago so Oli is still alive. Mark went over to that building and searched all around that area and any low ledges of buildings from there back to the corner of Young and Eglinton and north and south on Young but no luck.

We watched the others for the rest of the day and no more flights Neven walked back and forth on the balcony retaining wall and Sasha with full crop stayed put and little Jamie who has not made the first grade yet and jumped down off the nest to the concrete ledge 4 feet below we call the play veranda was contend with a full crop and had already gone to bed. It’s going to be a while before he takes his first flight.