June 09, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
June 9th 2015
Arrived this morning to find Bob on site already and he had all three chicks in site. Kline was on the same level as yesterday but had ledge walked to the farthest east end on the building and his brothers were still on the nest ledge. Not long after Berkley having seen him get fed twice that morning with no leftovers for him or Harper decided to ledge walk himself and slowly made his way east along the ledge
to sit directly above Kline.
From pretty much the time I arrived little Harper wined and yelled at his parents demanding his due share of food but got none Quest has started weening.
Everyone else stayed put until just after 4:00 when Harper decided to take off for his first flight and wouldn’t you know it we were watching the other 2 and mom who just took off on a hunt so we missed him leave.
He flew in a circle from west around the Harlequin building we know this because he did not fly in front of us. He must have then hooked to the east across the back of the building and tried t to make one more turn to head back home because he ended up on the east side of the building on a lower window ledge just above the shipping doors. Again we had not seen him leave but noticed he was gone just about a minute later. We logged onto the web camera on our cell phones and saw no one home Yikes!! Where did he get to. Bob headed across the street to have a look on the west side of the nest building thinking he too was ledge walking, went the other way and around the corner. Just as Bob got to the other side of the street the grounds keeping contractors came up to us to say they just saw one of the Falcons bump into the building concrete walls and land on a window ledge on the east side of the Harlequin building. He must have tried to make one more turn and just ran out of altitude and gas. The contractor said he just bumped into the wall and slid down to land on that ledge.
With so many watching out the window or on the web cam people started texting me within minutes. Where is Harper? He is not on the ledge is he ok? I told everyone where he was and that he was ok but only about 15 feet from the ground and his next flight may bring him to the ground so I am on it. Well by 5:00 PM I had 2 move volunteers, 5:30 2 more and by 6:00 3 more Thank you all so much!!!
Bob and I stayed watching him while other volunteers went out front to keep an eye on the other 2 boys.
Our fear was that he would end up spending the night there and perhaps take another flight before we could get there in the morning so plans for a rescue from his new position started. The security guard warned me that the garbage truck would be arriving at 8:00 PM pulling in to load up from the shipping doors just below him . We thought this may scare him off and if he comes down we could then grab him up for the rescue. Well the truck came and went no luck he just sat and watched it just about 5 feet below him.
There were some plumbing contractors taking a break at this time and joined us to have a look at the bird so we asked them for a hand. We told them there was a ladder we could use in the shipping area but it was not tall enough to reach the bird but if he could use his measuring tape extended out he could perhaps coax him off the ledge to fly again and either gain more height of come to ground in the back parking that was now empty and quiet so we could rescue him.
Well that worked great he flew across the back parking all the way to a multi level parking garage about 1000 yards gaining about 2 floors of height. Unfortunately he went right into the 3 floor parking area so off we went to try again to catch him up. Kathy and Bob were well ahead of me and I decided to remain in the back parking at ground level in case he flew out before they got to him so I could see were he went. Kathy did get to him but he is obviously made of Teflon. She walked right up to him and had her rescue towel ready but he gave her the slip and flew out and headed back to the Harlequin building landing on an even lower window ledge then he was on in the first place grrrrrr!
So it was back to get the ladder and bring it around to his new ledge. I called Mark Nash and asked him to bring me a net I was not going to miss this time!
Mark arrived and seeing that I was a little tuckered out took the net and made the attempt, did I say attempt 
Gallant try but the slippery one escaped again and flew long and strong all the way to Bayview Glen School landing on the 3rd floor.
Safe now we watched him for another half hour until it got dark and left him sleeping for the night.
Both of his brothers still on the nest building all fine and safe.
Stay tuned for chapter 3 tomorrow.
More pictures to come.
Posted on June 10, 2015 12:12 am
June 08, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
June 8th - 2015
Murray, Deb, Sally and Cathy took over the evening watch and all was quite. It appears that they were all tuckered out after the days activities. Murray and Cathy ended the evening portion of the fledge watch with all juveniles in site and down for the night.
I will be out on the watch most of the day tomorrow here is hoping all goes well.
Marion
Posted on June 8, 2015 9:08 pm
June 08, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
June 8, 2015
Received call from Tracy that only 2 falcon babies were seen on ledge.
Received call from Sally at Halequin that one was on ledge below.
Arrived at watch at 11am with Donna Hayes. Kline was on the level below and was showing confidence at going around the ledge wall. A few times he slipped and almost did not make it pass wall but by the end of the day he was jumping and running pass the wall. Kline also was flying at the ledge wall.
Both Harper and Berkley were noisy and doing a lot of flapping on the nest ledge. Harper was very interested in watching Kline go by - to the point he was almost falling off.
Quest was totally awesome - Donna and I watched her take off from nest box and fly across the road to the north west corner and almost attack a dog on the ground. She circled dog with talons down. From that point on we on edge every time a dog walked past.
Quest was back and forth to nest ledge but by the middle of the day appr. 3pm she started to sit on top of harlequin wall and call. Kline really wanted to go. Head bobbing, wings flapping but did not.
Quest then flew in to the nest with food for Harper. She then went back up to the top of harlequin again to try and entice Kline.
During all this time Skye was on Kendals old spot.
Exciting, scary and amazing.
photos to come.
Evening watch was taken over by Murray, Deb, Sally and Cathy
Ann Brokelman
We need volunteers to help with the fledge watch for this site. If you are a current volunteer and can spend some time please call the office and let us know when you can come if you want to become a volunteer watcher for this site please call 416-481-1233 and leave your name and number and I will get back to you.
Marion
Posted on June 8, 2015 9:03 pm
June 01, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
The boys still have a lot of down and have not really started their pre-fledge flapping exorcises yet so we plan on keep a close eye on the camera to see how they are doing but looks like fledge watch will start next week.
Posted on June 1, 2015 3:46 pm
May 20, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
May 20th - 2015
Banding Day Success!!
A big thank you to John Miller for his help to extract the chicks and to the great folks at Harlequin for hosting the banding again tis season. There were 3 boys this year all between 500 to 540 grams at 20 and 21 days of age. They were named Berkley, Harper and Kline, - sounds like a law firm to me but in this case LLP stands for Lovely little Peregrines.
Berkley was named after the building management company that manages the nest building, Harper the new owners of Harlequin and Kline a CPF volunteer who assisted at this years banding. Quest and Sky kept John on his toes during the extraction but no harm to John and they settled back into their routine minutes after the chicks were back in the box. The chicks should be fledging or taking their first flights very soon sometime in the next 10 to 14 days we expect.
Photos of banding to come soon stay tuned.
Posted on May 21, 2015 12:52 pm
May 20, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Mark Nash Reports:
Wednesday May 20th - 2015
Banding Success!! Three Males!!
Stay tuned for additional info and photos!!
Posted on May 20, 2015 7:28 pm
May 17, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
Got a shot of Quest trying to cool off outside the box too hot to snuggle with chicks.
Posted on May 17, 2015 12:25 pm
May 14, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
CPF Postmaster Reports:
May 14th - 2015
We’ve all been working hard behind the scenes on all of this seasons bandings. We’re delighted to report that we have finally been able to book and confirm a banding date for the young Duncan Mills hatchlings.
The plan is to meet once again at Harlequin’s head office (across the road from the nest site) who has graciously agreed again this year to host the banding event in their large conference room - (named Chapters one and two) at for a 2:30pm set up, Meet and greet at 3:00 pm, and banding to take place at 3:30pm.
We will be at the MEC nest site in Mississauga earlier this same day doing the MEC banding.
Hope to see you all!
Your are once again invited to attend and looking forward to seeing you all out to support your peregrines!
Posted on May 14, 2015 9:26 pm
May 08, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
Marion Nash Reports:
Got this picture today enjoy!
Posted on May 8, 2015 12:51 pm
May 04, 2015 - Toronto - Don Mills
CPF Volunteer Reports:
Monday May 4th - 2015
Just received this little update from the Duncan Mills nest box via photos taken from the Harlequin web cam, and it was quite obvious that there are now three little peregrine hatchlings! Quest was caught feeding her three new family members.
Cute is an understatement!
Enjoy………..
Posted on May 4, 2015 12:20 pm
