Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Equinox in Etobicoke

October 17, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Got the message below from Marlene at The Etobicoke private residence nest site of Indie and Aria. Equinox hatched in 2014 at Canada Square confirmed by his band numbers in the photo is in Etobicoke and Indie the resident male has not been seen for a couple days. Not sure yet is Equinox has chase Indie off or if he is just not home at the moment will be watching closely to see if he shows up.

Hi Marion - One of our fantastic photographers was able to get these shots at noon today - apparently it is not one of ours as we first thought - does the info provided assist you to identify where this bird is from? Mom is staying near and interesting that the intruder appears to have a beige
breast as does Aria. Any info you could provide would be most welcome.
We have not seen Indie for a week or so. Much appreciate your thoughts -
look forward to hearing from you - Marlene

Equinox hatched 2014 is now in Etobcoke

October 17, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Got the message below from Marlene at The Etobicoke private residence nest site of Indie and Aria. Equinox hatched in 2014 at Canada Square confirmed by his band numbers in the photo is in Etobicoke and Indie the resident male has not been seen for a couple days. Not sure yet is Equinox has chase Indie off or if he is just not home at the moment will be watching closely to see if he shows up.

Hi Marion - One of our fantastic photographers was able to get these shots at noon today - apparently it is not one of ours as we first thought - does the info provided assist you to identify where this bird is from? Mom is staying near and interesting that the intruder appears to have a beige
breast as does Aria. Any info you could provide would be most welcome.
We have not seen Indie for a week or so. Much appreciate your thoughts -
look forward to hearing from you - Marlene

A 2020 juvie has come home!!

August 16, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Cathy Kerr Reports:

Sasha Rescued Again July 8th 2022

July 08, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Mark and I were on our way to Yellow Pages Scarborough nest to relieve Bruce on the fledge watch but got a call from a contractor who was doing work on the roof top of 2221 Yonge St he said there is a Peregrine Falcon stuck on the roof top patio 54 floors up. He explained that there are 20 foot high glass walls up there and the bird is hitting the glass trying to get out. We drove down and yes found Sasha (red tape) sitting in a planter on the patio. There is no way a fledgling could get off that roof because there was not enough runway to get enough lift to get above the glass wall. There were 2 food packages up there with her so the adults were feeding her there. Mark caught her in a net and towel and she is every bit as strong and feisty as her mom Haven. Mark took her over to the nest building at 2200 Young and put her out on the balcony just below the nest as we always do so she is safe and able to keep flying with a new knowledge of glass barriers. Hopefully so stays off that roof but having made it up 54 floors I have no worry about her ever coming to ground. It’s up the the adults and to her now.

June 17th Canada Square- Jamie is back

June 17, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Mark dropped me off at Canada Square to head down to Mount Sinai Hospital to release Red on the roof again.
At first I did not see any of the chicks but minutes later I saw one of the fledglings fly in from the north and attempt to land on RioCan it missed and recovered and flew back for a second attempt, this time landing safely on the top under the letter C , dad flew in behind him and did a couple flyovers before taking off back to the north.
While I was looking at that chick another flew in and joined him. I watched the 2 for a few minutes and saw the bands on the last one that arrived it was yellow. So now I have Neven for sure. I kept a close eye on the other trying to get a band as they were both very active with lots of wing flapping in the wind gusts.
A movement caught my eye above the 2 and I focused by binoculars on an bump above them on the grill-work that holds the letters RioCan it was another fledgling laying down flat as a pancake. Great I have 3 fledglings.
I watched them all closely only taking my eyes off them to wipe some of the grit that was getting in my eyes stirred up by the high wind gusts whipping up the dust from the construction site.
Finally the first fledgling got close to the edge and I focused on it legs in time to catch a leg stretch there are no bands on that leg yippee it’s our unbanded Jamie.
I could see the a band color on the higher one that was on the grill work as it just would not show the lower leg.
Mark arrived at about 5:00 PM and just in time to see another fledgling fly in from the north and land with it’s siblings on RioCan. Well we get to end the day with all 4 chicks in sight and all safe.
Now that Jamie has returned and shown me he can attain and stay up on a building as high as RioCan I decided to wind down the watch to spot checks and take a couple days rest before we start the next fledge watch at another site. I think although dads job is just beginning since all the chicks seemed to have followed dad in from the north it looks like they found his man cave lol. Over the next weeks the chicks are going to learn how to be a top predator at dads top-gun peregrine school.

only 1 seen today

June 17, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Had to go to Toronto Wildlife to pick up one of the fledglings from the Mount Sinai site and take it downtown for release. By the time we got back to Canada Square there was only one chick in site laying down on top of the RioCan building. It was too hot and the fledglings are all tucked in shady spots as are the adults. Hopefully when it becomes cooler tomorrow we will see more of them.

Canada Square June 15th

June 15, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Unbanded Jamie fledged sometime early this morning and when because when we got there he was gone off the nest. We spent time throughout the day searching for him but could not find him. I expect and hope like the others he is high enough to be safe and he will show up sooner or later. the other 3 Sasha, Oli and Neven are all flying very well and we have given them a check mark. They all flew in at 8:00 Pm and each flew one at a time to the south end of the nest building nest ledge level for the night. Another day or 2 to look for and watch Jamie and we will scale back the watch to spot checks.
First photo is of the female Sasha on the antenna on the top of the nest building the second is of Sasha, Oli and Neven on the south end of the nest building at nest level.

June 14th Canada Square

June 14, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

This morning started out with a call from a lady at 1 Belsize who had a falcon with a yellow band on her balcony trapped behind the glass. Ok so that’s where Neven got to. We headed there first to rescue the him but by the time we got there he had already flown off her balcony she thought to her neighbors balcony. We contacted building security and the Superintendent who took us up to the suite but no one was home. We drove down the street far enough to see the balcony clearly and there was no bird there. We searched the area in a block radius around the building no luck Neven was no where to be seen.
Disappointed we headed to Canada Square and just got sat down on the watch when Mark sees a fledgling on the black glass building beside the nest building. He took out the spotting scope and after a while the fledgling moved up enough for Mark to get a band number it was C 29 Neven. The Brat had us searching half the morning for him and I guess while we were looking he was making his way home.
Jamie however has graduated to grade 1 and has jumped down from the nest ledge to the concrete platform 4 feet below we call the veranda and spent the day flapping and running the new playpen.
Since we were now missing Sasha and had not seen Oli for 3 days I decided to take another walk around to see if I could find them but again no luck.
Not long after Neven took another flight hooked around to young St and landed on a 8 floor building safe. About 10 minutes later Haven brought him another big pigeon as his reward. We watched him eat his fill and Haven flew in and to take what was left but Neven was not letting it go without a bit of a challenge. Haven won and took the leftovers over to Jamie on the nest.
Neven feeling ripped off tried to follow her and flew over to the nest but missed the ledge and fluttered down very low before he recovered and hooked around back to young St. Out of our site.
Mark walked over to Young and found him on another 8 floor level structure beside the in Horton’s and directly across the street from the nest building.
While Mark was there I heard some fledgling calls and looked up to see 2 fledglings high atop the RioCan building and could see Jamie in the nest and Mark had Neven on Young St so we now have all 4 fledglings home at last!!! It was 8:30 PM and we could see they were all settling down for the night and we took our cue and packed up and called it a night, what a nice way to end the day.
Sorry pictures are with cell phone so not great
Picture 1 Neven on Black Glass building, Picture 2 and 3 Neven on Young St above Tim Horton’s and Picture 4 Jamie on Playpen.

May 13th update Canada Square

June 13, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

When we arrived Neven was no where to be found , Sasha was still on the copper building roof top Oli is still MIA and Jamie is still on the nest. I did a walk around the area to look for Neven and Oli but still no luck I hope they are up high somewhere. There are hundreds balconies they could be on here. Late in the afternoon Sasha finally took flight and went to the condo behind the TVO building and landed on the window washers davit and there she stayed until dark. No flight from Jamie and no sight of Oli or Neven by the time we packed up and left.
1st shot Jamie on nest, second Sasha on copper building and the others Sasha on condo davit.

Sunday Morning -Neven was rescued and released a second time

June 12, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton

Marion Nash Reports:

Michael from the construction site behind 2200 Young st, called at 7:00 am to let me know he had another fledgling in a box in his office trailer, their 3rd rescue from that site and he would hold him for us until we got there. It turned out to be Neven again. Thank goodness Mickle was working on a Sunday or we would not have been able to access the constriction site and we are so grateful for the help from the crew there.

Mark and I saw Sasha who was released yesterday sitting on the balcony rail just outside the balcony door and if we released Neven now it might cause Sasha to bolt off in a panic flight so the release of Neven would have to wait until she flew off on her own or until darkness.

We sat in our watch spot and waited. Sasha did take flight, she flew west and tried to hook back to the nest building but missed and recovered and turned to try for the concrete columns the adults like to sit on on the RioCan building but missed that as well, again she recovered and landed on the lower building on the corner of Duplex and Eglinton that we call the copper building because of t’s color.

We could release Neven now but because Sasha was now on a building roof only 8 floors up we knew from experience at this sight that she would have a hard time getting any more altitude if she flew off now since there was no wind at all to assist her so we waited to see if she would go or stay.

About 45 minutes later Haven flew off the top of RioCan in a high sped dive and we figured she was on the hunt and Sasha was sitting and preening her feathers quite relaxed so Mark took Neven to do the release.

A few minutes later I saw Haven come back with a big pigeon and flew into the nest to feed little Jamie the last chick still on the nest. Since she was busy feeding and could not see the balcony from there it was safe for Mark to put Neven out but just as he opened to door to release him she flew off the nest with the rest of the food package over to Sasha and began to feed her and caught sight of Mark and the bell sounded for round 1.

Haven took off screaming got some height and dove on Mark at high speed and was joined by dad. Mark bent down as low as he could, released Neven and had to almost crawl back into the office and closed to door. Success!

Haven sat on the ledge above Neven for quite some time watching him below on the balcony and when Mark came back out to join me on the street she was still there waiting for round 2.

While all this excitement and screaming from the adults was going on Sasha was chowing down the pigeon Haven left on the ledge with her like nothing was wrong at all. Haven finally feeling confident Mark had thrown in the towel flew over to Sasha to see if she could grab what might be left of the pigeon and perhaps to feed Neven but it was obvious Sasha had no intention of giving it up.
I got a call from a lady who lives at 8 Eglinton Ave on the 6th floor who told me there was a falcon on her balcony with a green band on its leg and that it had just flow off 5 minutes ago so Oli is still alive. Mark went over to that building and searched all around that area and any low ledges of buildings from there back to the corner of Young and Eglinton and north and south on Young but no luck.

We watched the others for the rest of the day and no more flights Neven walked back and forth on the balcony retaining wall and Sasha with full crop stayed put and little Jamie who has not made the first grade yet and jumped down off the nest to the concrete ledge 4 feet below we call the play veranda was contend with a full crop and had already gone to bed. It’s going to be a while before he takes his first flight.