Scarborough Fledge watch July 11th 2022
July 11, 2022 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Marion Nash Reports:
We now think Piper is a female since we have seen several feedings with Lyn and her together and she is at least as tall as Lyn.
When Mark and I arrived Piper was still where we left her last night on the lower ledge. Bruce told us she did take a flight but bumped the glass at the 121th floor lever and landed back on the lower level. He said that Lyn feed her there. Bruce headed home and Mark an I set up to watch Piper hoping she would stay put until the wind calmed down as it was outrageously blowing from the west. Piper later made sever good flights getting lift from the wind that was crazy strong too strong for an inexperienced uncoordinated fledgling. Although she got enough lift to reach the top of the nest building and the 12th floor ledge she was not able to coordinate the landing and she came to ground. Mark and I tried to catch her up she flew off again and successfully landed on the lower lever ledge again above the garbage bins. At 7:00 PM Lyn brought in food and flew above her to prep it and that got her going again. She flew off the lower ledge out over the parking lot but again the wind was too strong and she landed on a low building across the street from the south end of the parking lot. It was not long before the small birds nesting in the trees at the front of that building started to dive on her with a very upset mocking bird who waked her in the head several times. Cathy arrived to join us on the watch just in time to see Both Lyn and dad diving on the mocking bird and Lyn landed on the roof with Piper to protect her from the mocking bird and now a Robin who were not happy about having a falcon above their nest. Lyn flew back and forth from the nest building and Piper several times showing her how to get home ,but Piper was not ready to go. Lyn finally grabbed her food stash and fed her there. When the feeding was done Lyn flew off to land on a light post in the Yellow Pages parking lot to watch Piper and not long after Piper did take flight. Piper flew back to the nest building but again did no get enough altitude and hit the glass on the east side of the building and landed again on the lower ledge this time on the west side of the building same level as she has been on for the last 3 days. Bruce planned to arrive fore the morning watch at 6:00 AM and since I now know for cretin she is able to get off the ground if she comes down and she has been fed at lest twice today she would be ok there for the night so we packed up and headed home with Lyn watching her from the light post.
Cathy’s photos from July 10th and 11th.
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