June 05, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
SPOT CHECK AT BLOOR/ISLINGTON, ETOBICOKE - Wednesday, June 5
After spending the day at MEC, I wanted to check in at Izzy Bloor. I hoped to see some flying but instead I found two juvies chilling on the roof of the west tower. I searched for a third, and after several minutes of checking ledges and roofs, a third head popped up. It was obvious no one wanted to go anywhere, and with a possible storm coming, I was content seeing three and headed home. Cheers, Lucie
Posted on June 25, 2024 5:14 pm
June 02, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
FLEDGE WATCH - BLOOR/ISLINGTON, ETOBICOKE - June 1 & 2
A few photos of FREDDIE, MIA & LOLA from June 1. At the end of the evening, FREDDIE was all tucked in, but the girls decided on a another flight or two. All good though. LOLA went to the nest ledge for the night, I hope, and I don’t know where MIA ended up, but the parents were chilled and I called it a night around 8:30.
Today, June 2, Rob did a check in the morning and in the evening. It looks like they are in that playful and silly stage, that we call the “follies”. As long as they don’t cocky, we hope to see some good flights, landings and food transfers. It can be quite entertaining watching the air play. All 3 were on the roof when Rob left so hopefully it stayed that way.
I also wanted to thank Marlene from the Masters Condos, home of ARIA and GROUCHO, who came by on Saturday when I was there and then this afternoon to check on the birds and to get familiar with our site in case more volunteer help is needed.
I look forward to hearing Rob’s and Bruce’s observations tomorrow and hope to get down there in the next couple of days. Cheers, Lucie
Posted on June 21, 2024 9:35 pm
May 31, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
FLEDGE WATCH - BLOOR/ISLINGTON, ETOBICOKE - May 31/June 1
Just a quick update as I’m exhausted from a long day but I wanted to follow up from May 30. Good news that LOLA (white band) is safe and sound! Rob found her low down on Friday morning and he took these awesome photos. She’s so beautiful! She made it back up on her own and, fast forward to tonight, is flying well with her siblings MIA (red) and FREDDIE (blue). I took a few photos and will post them tomorrow. Cheers, Lucie
Posted on June 21, 2024 9:15 pm
May 30, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
FLEDGE WATCH - BLOOR/ISLINGTON, ETOBICOKE - Thurs, May 30
A very odd start to fledge watch this year. It was the first day of watching for Rob, Bruce and myself. Yesterday I checked the camera and saw 3 juvies on the nest ledge. Since they all looked big, I thought maybe our only boy, FREDDIE (blue tape) was either under the camera or he fledged first.
But today we confirmed they had all left the nest!
Rob started the morning observing 2 on the camera, and when he got there, he reported just one juvenile on the nest ledge. He did his routine walkabout and when he came back he saw a juvenile on the condo.
I got there about an hour and a half after Rob left and thought I would do a drive around the area to the parking lot on Lomond, which is great for a view of the north side of the buildings. I grabbed my bins and as soon as I opened the door, I heard the alarm calls of the robins and knew one of the juvies was nearby. I figured I’d be there for awhile, so what the heck, I bought a parking ticket for the whole day. Sure enough, it was MIA (red tape) down low on the light pole and far too close to the fledgling robin that the adults were trying to protect. At one point, the robins had enough and just wanted her gone, so they started to physically bump her.
Since I couldn’t leave her, I waited for Bruce to come and while he was watching her, I went around to see if FREDDIE was on the condos. Yes, he was! And I confirmed with my camera later his blue tape.
However, white tape and yellow tape were no where to be seen.
While FREDDIE was quite comfortable on the condos, I searched for any sign of white or yellow and eventually came back to where Bruce was. MIA was not there and since I didn’t see Bruce either and the robins were now singing their happy songs, MIA must have flown somewhere. Bruce found her on top of the condo on the southwest corner of Bloor and Islington! After a short respite, MIA took off and did an amazing flight to the Starlight roof, and shortly thereafter she flew to the nest building where she just missed the roof, did the batting and made her way to the top. She then took off, circled the building with great height and landed back on the nest roof, close to mom who was perched on the FLIPP letters. I wish I had my camera at that moment because it was adorable the way they looked at each other. MIA flew over to FREDDIE and both hung out on the condos for a good chunk of the day.
We noticed the parents didn’t look worried, in fact, they were ee-chupping while on FLIPP letters, so we hoped that they knew where white and yellow were.
As it started to get dark, I messaged Rob that all was quiet and we were going to call it a night and then Bruce saw a juvie flying low between the nest building and condos as the parents took off and started circling. We didn’t know if this was MIA or one of the others since we didn’t know where they came from. We searched again (I got 13,000 steps easily today) and hoped that the parents knew where that juvie landed.
Fingers crossed that Rob will have some good news in the morning.
Cheers, Lucie
Posted on June 21, 2024 8:34 pm
May 13, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Our 2nd banding today was at Etobicoke Sunlife, Islington /Bloor. It was a quiet affair this year but we had the great support of the building and Skyreach, with John’s help. John got the kids out quickly, Anne was not happy, no sign of Dad, Romeo (tho he made a brief appearance when we were inside).
Mark and Eva banded. It’s 3 girls(big girls lol) and a boy for Anne and Romeo.
The building is going to name the chicks and will get back to us on that.
Girl, 920g, 33/AB, red tape
Girl, 910g, 34/AB, white tape
Boy, 645g, C/50, blue tape
Girl, 850g, 35/AB, yellow tape
Many thanks again to Mark and Eva for banding. And John for his wonderful work in getting all the chicks off and then back home safety. And thanks to Sally for her invaluable help and support for me… I promised Marion I would get the bandings done. First 2 done.
Emotional , but a good day.
Posted on June 21, 2024 6:36 pm
April 23, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
We have 4 hatches now at Bloor/Islington in Etobicoke! We couldn’t confirm until 4 little heads were seen thanks to Kathy Majich keeping watch on the webcam. Kathy believes #3 was on Friday, followed by #4 sometime on the weekend. Cheers, Lucie
Posted on April 27, 2024 4:20 pm
April 18, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
t’s 2 hatches for ANNE (unbanded) and ROMEO (Y/33 .. 2017 hatch from William Osler) at Bloor/Islington in Etobicoke!! Thank you Kathy Majich for letting us know that #1 hatched last night and #2 this morning! Cheers, Lucie
Posted on April 27, 2024 4:12 pm
March 15, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Third egg at BLOOR/ISLINGTON in Etobicoke - March 15! Thank you again to Kathy Majich for sharing the screen shot! Cheers, Lucie
Posted on March 15, 2024 8:24 pm
March 11, 2024 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Cathy Kerr Reports:
First egg at BLOOR/ISLINGTON in Etobicoke - March 11! Thank you to Kathy Majich for sharing the screen shots from this morning! Cheers, Lucie
Posted on March 11, 2024 3:48 pm
July 25, 2023 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Marion Nash Reports:
follies with ANDRE, CASEY & ANGEL!!
The lighting wasn’t the best for capturing the antics of the afternoon, but all 3 were present and having a great time in the skies. Before I got there, I saw 2 peregrines landing on a nearby condo just west of Islington. Once I got to the nest site, I realized those were the parents, probably getting a respite LOL.
So happy to see them all flying well!
Cheers, Lucie
Posted on July 25, 2023 10:33 pm
