June 25, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Mark Nash Reports:
A brief update as we are all scrambling. Four hatchlings produced!! Surprise Surprise!! Oh my goodness!! Quick calls yesterday, Building management, Mark at OMNR, Big Frank, Tracy, Bruce, Linda and a host of other calls burning up the telephone lines! One dead battery on the cell phone, and starting on the second battery!
One fledgling rescued that was trapped behind the glass balcony way up on a condo. Rescued by Toronto Animal services, transferred to the Toronto Wildlife and in the bag safe and sound as we say.
Calls to some old friends at Yonge & Eglinton - Northam Realty property managers - (nest site building), quick talking and some very quick reintroductions. Great folks, and many thanks to Neil Armstrong for his assistance and support!!
Emergency call from Bruce Massey while he is on site in the afternoon, - as he watches one of the resident adult parents - (the female) fly to a huge tall condo building east of Yonge Street,,
- yet another fledgling observed trapped behind a glass balcony on the 43rd floor. Oh my goodness!!! Quick contact with building security at Minto for help. Long story, (many calls later), Tracy dispatched with yet another rescue carrier,,, - end result, Tracy and Bruce do the rescue,, - (second fledgeling in the bag as we say) safe and sound.
Two fledglings still on the nest ledge. Sizes indicate one female and one male still on the nest ledge raring to go!! Mark Heaton from MNR to band both fledglings
later prior to their re-release,,, and likely more to band as they tooo will be coming down to the streets! Very busy part of the city!!! Lots of congestion, NO PARKING ANYWHERE without a kings ransom or your first born!! Oh my goodness, - $ 12.00 for 3 hours of parking!!!!
Metro police Sargent very nasty at 47 div. demanding that we not stand in front or around the station, and forced to move from our watch position! Right,,,, To serve and protect. I must remember that.
Many more calls for help and logisicts!! Still scrambling, but its pulling together and making head way. Our team are some of the greatest folks on the planet!!
With a huge thank you to all that has been involved so far - (way tooo many names to mention during this rush e-mail), a watch has started. First priority to the birds!!
Stay tuned for many more updates and photos to come…..
Posted on June 26, 2010 9:30 am
June 25, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
CPF Postmaster Reports:
With a big thanks to Bruce and all of his efforts this afternoon, he has located the ledge that the Yonge & Eglinton peregrines have been using. From what Bruce has gathered so far, their are two more hatchlings on a ledge on the South west corner of Yonge & Eglinton, ready to fledge!
We are currenly chasing down the building management and will start the fledge watch this afternoon as soon as we can get watch volunteers organized and on site.
Posted on June 25, 2010 2:43 pm
June 25, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Mark Nash Reports:
We have had an incredible development that was just brought to our attention. This afternoon we received a call from the Toronto Wildlife folks with news that they had received a young Kestrel that was transferred to them from the Toronto Animal services.
The young falcon was trapped behind a balcony at Young & Eglinton here in Toronto and was rescued by the Toronto Animal Services after being called by the concerned occupant of the apartment residence. While identified by Toronto animal Services as an American Kestrel, but it didn’t take Toronto Wildlife staff but minute to recognize that this raptor was not a Kestrel, and the photo evidence sent to us confirms their findings without any question.
In addition to the bird being UNBANDED, we can confirm that it is a juvenile peregrine, and a recent fledgling peregrine falcon at that! The photo that was sent into us from the good folks at Toronto Wildlife clearly confirms its a juvenile peregrine and given the time of year, its a young fledgling peregrine.
So, the mystery (at least in part) has been partially solved, with regards to the here-again, gone again presence of the Up-Town resident peregrines that we have received so many reports about over the past months. After many site visits, we have never been able to find a nesting site of the on-again, off again un-banded territorial adults at Yonge & Eglinton, but we now have proof that they have in fact nested, and have produced at least one fledgling!
The search continues to locate their nesting site and further petition the area property management groups and residents to try and find out where the pair have set up house.
The fledgling is doing just fine and is unharmed and no worse for wear. Efforts are being made with the OMR to ensure that this bird is banded and released back to it parents in a timely fashion.
Stay tuned,,,,
Posted on June 25, 2010 1:30 pm
May 16, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
CPF Postmaster Reports:
I believe I saw two peregrine falcons on Saturday, May 16, 2009 flying around and landing on the Canadian Tire Building on the southwest corner of Yonge & Eglinton. I don’t have binoculars so I can’t be sure but I know they have nested there in years past.
Suzanne
Posted on May 30, 2010 5:14 pm
April 20, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Hello,
I work at the Yonge-Eglinton Center in Midtown Toronto and spotted a Peregrine falcon on the top of the neighbouring building. The falcon took several flights from the top of the building and even hit my office window, but appeared unhurt.
Attached are photos that I took from inside my office on April 20, 2010.
Regards,
Mark
Posted on May 30, 2010 5:08 pm
April 05, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Bruce Massey Reports:
On a whim, I decided to check the Eglington area. When I was doing the Christmas Bird Count for a Club I belong to just before Christmas, I was driving through the area, and thought I had seen a Peregrine in the area. After walking up from Davisville, much to my surprise I found a Male Peregrine perched on the Antenna on the Bof M Building on the SW corner of Yonge & Eglington. I observed the bird for an hour or so, in the hope that it would reveal a possible nest, but all it did was make several Hunting Flights and returned to the above Antenna.
Posted on April 5, 2010 5:57 pm
March 16, 2010 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Linda Woods Reports:
Tuesday noon hour I found myself at Yonge and Eglinton. I observed one peregrine attempting breakfast over the intersection of Yonge and Eglinton. It broke off the half hearted attempt to chase down the pigeon and flew to the north east side of 22oo Yonge st., over looking the old TTC bus bay on the south east corner of Yonge and Eglinton.
Posted on March 17, 2010 10:20 am
June 11, 2009 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Matt MacGillivray Reports:
If you have photos of any of the CPF monitored nest sites, birds or fledglings in this exciting time, we would love to see them! If you have older photos or videos from CPF events, like the 2009 Sportsman show, we would love to see those too.
We’ve got a flickr group that you can upload photos and short videos to. If you have longer videos, upload them to youtube and tag them with cpf and peregrine and I will find them.
Example shot from the Sheraton Banding in the Flickr Pool -
We might include some of the videos or photos in our updates, or around the site. You could be famous!
Matt.
Posted on June 11, 2009 10:29 am
