Burlington - Lift Bridge

Introducing:

May 25, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Sue McCreadie Reports:

Port Hope, Jimmy and Carrey.

All Quiet

May 23, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Sue McCreadie Reports:

Barry and Linda Cherriere:

Barry and I stayed at the Bridge until around 4:30ish.  The babies got a feeding around 1:30.  So, it seems like things are all quiet for now.

Burlington Banding Day Sucess! 3 Males!

May 23, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Sue McCreadie Reports:

Today was banding day.  Anne Yagi, Biologist with the Ministry of Natural Resources performed the banding.  We are happy to report that we have 3 healthy boys.  Statistics are as follows:

Jimmy - Black Band 83/Y - wearing a green tape on his right leg - weighing 669 grams - 24 days old.

Port Hope – Black Band 84/Y - wearing a yellow tape on his right leg – weighing 636 grams – 24 days old

Carrey – Black Band 85/Y - wearing a red tape on his right leg – weighing 686 grams (with a full crop) – 22 days old

Given that they are all males, the Official Fledge Watch will begin on May 31^st.

Let the fun begin as they fledge and learn to fly and hunt.  Thanks to PWGSC and the Lift Bridge Staff for their support.

Photos to follow.

!!! Banding - Burlington Lift bridge - Wednesday May 23rd - 10AM

May 22, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

CPF Postmaster Reports:

Banding - Burlington Lift bridge - Wednesday May 23rd - 10AM

!!! New Banding Date - Wednesday May 23rd at 10am!!

May 18, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

CPF Postmaster Reports:

May 18th - 2012

With banding dates being scheduled fast and furious, (and recent conflicts that have arisen), several bandings have had to be re-adjusted. The Burlington Lift Bridge banding has been rescheduled for Wednesday May 23rd at 10am.

(file photos CPF)

Cirrus Is Busy

May 14, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Sue McCreadie Reports:

Bill and I spent some time at the bridge today.  Cirrus is very busy taking care of the little ones.  She was either inside the box or standing on the outside corner.  Mackenzie was just hanging around.  Still can’t see the little white heads from the parking lot, but we should be able to soon.

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Peregrines

May 11, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Sue McCreadie Reports:

I am so happy to report that Bill and I were able to count 3 little heads this morning.  We set up our scopes down by the washrooms and watched while Cirrus fed the little ones.  First we saw one head, then two and then finally we saw a third.  Mackenzie was standing guard from the old nest ledge.  At one point he had to show a Coopers Hawk and then a Turkey Vulture the way out of town.  When we left, Cirrus was in the box with the little ones and Mackenzie was once again back on the old nest ledge.

!!! A banding date has been confirmed.

May 10, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

CPF Postmaster Reports:

We are excited to report that we have confirmed a date for banding the hatchlings. A banding date has been secured and confirmed for May 22nd.
We will be reporting the events as soon as the results are available.
Stay tuned…….

!!! Two hatchlings confirmed, and likely three!

May 05, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Mark Nash Reports:

Saturday May 5th - 2012
It was still a windy rather cool day despite the blue skies and sunny conditions and the adult female was not giving much up as I peeked through the peep holes of the nest box this afternoon.
She was tightly down in brooding mode and doing a great job covering her new family members.
I was able to confirm at least two hatchlings, with a possible third hatchling. Although all I was able to see two tiny little white fluffy butts!

Sadly, I was unable to get any sort of full view of the hatchlings, so it was impossible to age them. As such we will have to take our best guess of their age based on our observations of the resident adults behaviour as it relates to their activity in and around the nest box.
Long before we had cameras installed on any of the nest ledges, it was (ans still is) very easy to identify the first day of a hatch based on the close daily monitoring that we do on each of the active nest sites.

As in this case, it is believed that the first hatch happened on or about April 30th or May 1st.

Until I can get an physical eyeball or a photo of all of the hatchlings together, there will be no way to positively determine their exact size, thus identify the biggest, (that will at this age), allow me to identify the oldest and first hatched. I can then properly age the oldest / first hatched and come up with an exact hatch date.
Stay tuned…………

Things Are Slow

May 06, 2012 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Sue McCreadie Reports:

Bill and I spent several hours at the Lift Bridge today.  What a beautiful day to be out and enjoying Spring.  Still no little white heads visible either from the parking lot or from down the road.  If there has been a hatch, we should be able to count heads sometime this week, I hope.  An interesting thing that Mackenzie has figured out is how to shop in the bridge.  We witnessed him shopping in the holes on the Bridge.  He would go inside a hole and the next thing you knew, he would bring out a squab.  He ate some of it and then delivered the rest to the nest box.  An easy day of hunting for him.