July 12, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Martin Dekkers reports:
Hello everyone, my fellow photographer, Maggie Pawlak managed to get some fabulous photos of Luna and Aurora in a food hunt dispute.
Maggie reports, Luna was carrying a small bird and then right away Aurora showed up and wanted to intercept it.
Luna was faster and got away with her meal but they put quite a show of their maneuvers and tactics learnt from Aria.
All the youth are still here hunting and making noise like no other babies before them.
Thank you Martin for the report and Maggie for sharing her pictures.
Posted on July 15, 2024 1:51 pm
June 14, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
MASTERS FLEDGE WATCH UPDATE :
Martin reports that all of the chicks have flown successfully and now are fledglings!!! Congrats on another great year for Aria and Groucho.
Thanks for the reports and pictures Martin and Maggie .
Stay high, stay safe Aurora, Orion, Solar and Luna!
Posted on June 25, 2024 6:48 pm
June 10, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
MASTERS FLEDGE WATCH UPDATE:
Martin reports that all 4 chicks have now fledged–all on the same day!! Way to go! His report is in one of the pictures.
Thanks Martin for the great news!
Posted on June 25, 2024 6:22 pm
May 20, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
MASTERS banding :
Of course the stars of the show are the 4 chicks(2 girls and 2 boys for Aria and Groucho! ) but… Also stars are our climber John and banders Mark and Eva! They too are volunteers, who gave up their holiday Monday to get these 4 banded. Martin was across on a balcony and got these fantastic shots of what happens before the banding… So bringing you a different perspective!
Thank you Martin for the great pics!
Enjoy!
Aurora, female, 935g, 36/AB, red tape
Orion, male, 630g, C/51, blue tape
Solar, male, 630g, C/52, green on yellow tape
Luna, female, 880g, 37/AB, white tape
Best of luck to these 4 on their fledges
Posted on June 21, 2024 7:14 pm
May 03, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
MASTERS PEREGRINE FALCONS :
Beautiful picture of all four being fed! And a parent flying over, taken by Martin.
Healthy looking family
the last 4 picture are from May 10.24
Posted on June 21, 2024 6:09 pm
April 29, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
MASTERS PEREGRINE FALCONS :
It’s TWO hatches at the Masters!!! What wonderful news from Marlene and great pictures from Martin. Two more to go
Posted on April 29, 2024 8:50 pm
March 27, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Egg #3 arrived at noon on Wednesday, March 27 at the MASTERS CONDOS in Etobicoke, home of ARIA and GROUCHO! Cheers, Lucie
Posted on April 27, 2024 3:29 pm
March 26, 2024 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Good news from the MASTERS CONDOS in Etobicoke! ARIA laid her first egg on Friday, March 22 at 10 am. Her second egg came on Sunday, March 24 at 7 pm. Thank you to Kathy Majich and also Marlene Cater and Martin Dekkers (who took this photo) from the Masters for keeping us up to date! Cheers, Lucie 
Posted on April 27, 2024 3:26 pm
May 29, 2023 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Marion Nash Reports:
There may have only 2 chicks but they sure were cuties. 2 boys this year.
Marlene booked space for us to band and the Property management had everything ready for us,
John Beals was again our climber and extractor and Mark Heaton and Eva Bobak banded the chicks. While they banded I recorded all the band information and Mark Nash spoke to the attendees watching and there were many, Mark explained the banding procedure and the importance of banding.
When John climbed down to the nest he found one of the chicks sitting on the ledge and held still so he would not cause the chick to try to run from him a possibly fall. John called up to the team on the roof to send down the net so he could insure the chick could be safely captured.
John captured the chick and had it in the bag with no issue and everyone watching below cheered and clapped.
Eva hauled the bag up to the roof and brought it down to the banding table whole John remained on the ledge to distract the adults so they would not know the chicks were actually removed.
The boys were named by the residents of the building Atlas and Turner. Turner was named after Tina Turner.
Environment and Climate Change Canada was there to do blood testing on the chicks as part of a year study on environmental toxins.
Both chick received 2 bands one on each leg. The first is the black band a Canadian Recovery band and the second a silver US fish and Wildlife band.
Here is the banding information.
Atlas weighed 590 grams his band number is C over 39 and he has yellow tape on the silver band
Turner weighed 660 grams and his band number is C over 40 he has Red tape on this silver band.
The colored tape helps the fledge watchers identify the chicks from a distance as it is easier to see the colored band then band numbers.
The fledge watch will begin in about 2 weeks.
Thank you goes out to to Marlene, the building management, John Belas our climber and our banders Mark Heaton and Eva Bobak for yet another successful banding.
Posted on May 29, 2023 11:18 pm
May 25, 2023 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Marion Nash Reports:
Stay tuned for banding information and photos May 29th is banding day for the chicks.
Posted on May 25, 2023 5:38 pm
