!!! Egg #2 for Quest & Skye
April 04, 2014 - Toronto - Don Mills
Kathy Reports:
Egg #2 just arrived at 5:21 pm!
Egg #2 just arrived at 5:21 pm!
A cold wet spring day and Quest is doing what a good peregrine mom should do and keeping the egg warm.
A cam shot captured by Donna this morning. Enjoy!
Laid at 2:49 pm as per mwplay over at BCAW who notified me! Apologies for the less than stellar screen shot but it’s dark in the nest box and I had to lighten it quite a bit to see the egg.
We were treated this afternoon to a visit from Skye at the Duncan Mill Road nest box. Looks like things are on track for the nesting season with both adults on camera more often.
On Tuesday, local residents in the York Mills and Leslie area were watching a Peregrine falcon on the rooftop of a parking structure snacking on a gull that was just caught. As it turns out the peregrine was none other than Quest! Thank you so much to Jackie for sending in the observation and to Victor Muirhead for taking and sharing these fantastic photos!! We look forward to further sightings from Jackie and Victor from the York Mills area.
These brilliant photos were re-sized for the web posting. Thanks again Victor for such fabulous pictures.
Quest popped in at the nest site today and was doing some work on the nest bowl. She was scraping, pebble picking and being quite animated.
Yesterday our site watcher Cathy Kerr was out at the Duncan Mill Road nest site and managed to capture a quick photo of Quest and Skye atop the neighboring 220 Duncan Mill Road office building. Both adults have been seen off and on the camera lately and it would appear that spring eggs may be in the making. Thanks to Cathy for checking in and sharing her update.
A belated post but a great one to start out March!
Quest and Skye have been camera shy lately but now that we are coming close to nesting season the pair have become more active around the nest box. Nice to see that the pair are more active around home!
Chad and Chris have posted the story of Luna’s adventure in Ohio and some fantastic photos on their Facebook site:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.722096501149458.1073741966.590679534291156&type=1