March 29, 2013 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
March 29th - 2013
Hi All,
Today was beautiful and took this opportunity to do some observations on University Ave. I could not have had any more perfect timing than today. I arrived just in time to see the male cleaning prey on the north roof level of Sick Children’s Hospital. Lots if white fluff floating through the sunny skies and I knew this time it was not snow. I waited until the cleaning was finished to see if this was food or a gift package. Gift it was!
The male then took the prey and flew circles over University Ave until he reached the height of the east facing ledges of Mt. Sinai Hospital, and deposited on the south ledge. He then did multiple e-chups calling on his mate. She flew into the ledge from the south. Lots of exchanges of e-chupping and then the female flew off without the food package.
She flew towards the upper levels of Toronto General Hospital and out of my sight line. The male stayed on the ledge where the food package was offered. I think he was disappointed. I did a walk around to find where the female had perched and could not locate her. When I returned to the corner of University and Gerrard St. the male had flown off as well.
Linda
Posted on March 30, 2013 12:31 pm
March 26, 2013 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
March 26th - 2013
I was by Mt. Sinai today, one peregrine on the east facing ledges this afternoon.
Linda
Posted on March 27, 2013 12:27 pm
May 28, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
Today at 11:15, I stopped by the Mt.Sinai site for a quick look around. I found both adults in the area. One was on the north facing signage of Alliance Insurance building, south of the Hospital. The second adult was on the north west corner of 505 University, across the street from the Insurance building. I stayed for about 45 minutes and didn’t see any interaction with the ledges of Mt. Sinai. I think they both just getting out of the direct sunlight.
Posted on May 28, 2012 4:29 pm
May 15, 2012 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
May 15th - 2012
A nice family portrait this afternoon. The eyases are getting so big already!
Eileen
Posted on May 15, 2012 1:47 pm
May 08, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
A short visit to Mt.Sinai area today. I found the adult female preening on the south east corner of the structure. No other activity noted during this short visit, but they are still on site. Promising.
Posted on May 8, 2012 7:37 pm
April 28, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Tracy Simpson Reports:
This past Saturday Frank, Linda and I spent several hours down at the Mount Sinai Hospital site watching Hunter and Ranger’s activities around the building. We started off our day at a higher elevation where we could see the nest tray located on a ledge on the east face of the building. While they had initially shown interest in the tray, we were able to determine that there are no eggs in the tray and that their interest is in the ledge to the right of the one with the tray. We immediately found both adults; one on the chosen ledge and the other on a building to the north by the “Intact” sign. It was easy to pick out that the one near the Intact sign was Ranger as she is one big bird! We then took our observations down to the street at which time Hunter became very active. Ranger flew into the chosen ledge and disappeared in the back corner out of our view and Hunter flew up to take her place on the other buidling. He sat there for quite some time and was joined later by Ranger. With the pair on the same building, we had another peregrine enter the territory which Hunter immediately went out to address. Ranger stayed right where she was until a fourth peregrine joined the fight and the battle continued to the north. Shortly thereafter, both adults returned. Ranger went back into the ledge and Hunter sat several ledges south of her in the last rays of the day. We were treated again to some activity as Hunter went of in pursuit of lunch and brought a fair sized pigeon down onto the lower roof of the Toronto General Hospital. He consumed his share and then flew across the street to invite Ranger to take her fill.
It is hard to say what exactly they are attending to in the corner of that ledge but they are certainly showing great interest. We are still seeing both birds periodically together and so a full clutch of eggs is not likely at this time. We hope that the pair can have a successful year this season which would make it their first ever. It has been a decade of trying for Hunter, 12 years old now, and Ranger who turned 11 years old this year. We wish them the best of luck this season and hope that 2012 is their year. Check back soon as there are many pictures from the day to follow.
Posted on May 2, 2012 8:50 am
April 19, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
Wednesday morning around 11:10 am , a quick visit found both adults paying particular attention to the second and third ledge on the east side of the east side of the hospital. The activity is more defined rather than just random visits to all the ledges. More observation is needed.
Posted on April 19, 2012 9:25 am
April 13, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
Around 10:30 a.m., both Ranger and Hunter were seen sitting on the first ledge, east side of Mt.Sinai. They were there for about 10 minutes, the male flew off and out of view. Can’t say they have eggs yet.
Posted on April 13, 2012 6:39 pm
April 07, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Frank and I joined Linda Woods this weekend to catch a view of the territorial pair at the Mount Sinai Hospital. This year their interest has turned to the nest tray installed on the eastern ledge of the building and we were delightfully surprised to see both adults on site.
At first there was no indication of an adult anywhere. Within 15 minutes of our arrival, a pair was seen soaring above the hospital moving southwest and the male was stooping the female in spectacular displays of “see what I can do”. Their soaring took them in a complete high altitude circle around the territory and finally out of our sight. A few minutes later, in flies the male to the eastern ledge where the tray is located. Into the ledge, then out. Then back in (out of our view) and then back out to the edge. The male was very interested and had a morsel of food that he was obviously attempting to draw the female in for an exchange. He lost patience and flew off with the food landing several ledges to the south where the female was hiding back out of our line of sight. The pair then made several short flights and landings back and forth on different ledges along the eastern face of the hospital and if I had to guess, based on what they were doing, which ledge they had chosen I would have said all of them!! The didn’t settle on one in particular while we were there but most certainly the third ledge south of the northeast corner was landed on the most, which coincidentally is where the tray is located. While we weren’t able to confirm their band numbers, this territory has long been held by Ranger from New York and Hunter from Ohio but sadly none of their eggs have ever hatched. Let’s hope that 2012 will be the year for them!!
Posted on April 10, 2012 7:54 pm
April 04, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Linda Woods Reports:
A quick check on the Mt.Sinai peregrines today. One adult paying particular attention to the third ledge from the north on the east side of the structure. It was in view then stepped back further into the ledge area. It didn’t reappear before I had to leave the area.
Posted on April 4, 2012 7:18 pm
