Good afternoon Marion,
Just wanted to let you know that one of the eggs hatched today. Will keep you updated.
Kyle
Kyle from security was able to check on Haven for us and snapped a shot of her with 4 eggs.
More great news from around the continent about our peregrine alumni from Canada.
Louise, hatched in 2016 at the Canada Square nest site to Haven and Malik, remains the resident female at the Rockford site in Illinois! I have to say, her beau is pretty handsome!!! A male name Lil Kool from Wisconsin. For those of you who keep track of these things, which we do here at CPF, Louise is the grand daughter of our most famous pair of peregrines in all of Ontario; Erin and Windwhistler. This pair reigned at 18 King St E for well over a decade and their young have been establishing sites and repopulating our skies in Ontario and far beyond. So proud of our girl. Go Louise!!!!
She was eating Woodcock.
Marion,
I was put in contact with Tracy Simpson she provided me a very nice reply with information. I also reported the band as you know. I have sent her some information and pictures but here is the information. I live in Anderson, IN and last April an adult male Peregrine Falcon showed up that was banded. It was banded in Canton, OH in 2012. He was soon joined by an adult female. At some point the adult female was replaced with a second year female. Then a little bit later the banded adult male left and was replaced by an unbanded male. I worked with Indiana DNR to get a nest box installed but it was late in the season and a young bird so no luck. She molted into a nice adult plumage and both of them stuck around all winter. However, both birds disappeared on March 4th. Despite a lot of looking by a couple of us no luck. Suddenly on March 15th the banded male from 2019 showed back up and brought with him a young female banded bird. It just happens to be Raptorette that you banded last year J
I attached pictures as well as my ebird checklist.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S65845011
So to answer your question she is about 475 miles away and doing well. I witnessed them copulating this morning and they are interacting a lot so I am hopeful they will attempt this year even though she is young.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
Jeff
Screaming Legals from Canada Square was caught this morning at a bander’s station at the Leslie Spit. He weighed 650 grams. He will be released to finish his journey south for the winter wish him well.
A few days ago I posted some photos from Nick Richardson of the peregrine couple that visit his window ledge. We have since identified the male as Typhoon (Y/17, 2015 hatch from Yonge/Eglinton) and the female as unbanded. Nick has named her ‘FALCO’ .. perfect ❤
Cathy Kerr and I took a trip to Brampton today to get familiar with the locations that have attracted these peregrines in the past. We could not see any birds at the court house and proceeded to downtown Brampton to hopefully find them at their other hang out. After perusing all the buildings in the area, we were thrilled to see someone fly to and land on a condo right near us! It was TYPHOON! Although we didn’t see his mate, we heard him eee-chupping (peregrine sweet talk) so he could see where she was, even if we couldn’t. Sure enough, our waiting paid off and FALCO appeared from the back of the ledge!
What a great day! We know where they are and hope for positive news next spring .. fingers crossed.
In the meantime, we are thankful that TYPHOON and FALCO are frequenting a ledge where they are welcomed! Our sincere thanks to Nick for embracing our couple and keeping us informed and with great photos! Cheers, Lucie
Today I was down early to the site to check on Raptorette after her release the night before. When I got there I had no one. Nope, no one. No parents, no bratty boys and no Raptorette. Ok. Search is on. I took a slow walk over from Duplex across Eglinton towards Yonge and then south. Well I’ll be if I didn’t find Raptorette on the mezzanine level ledge on the east side of Canada Square! Now this position is quite low but it could be worse. The spot is not a total write off for another flight but it is in a sort of canyon created by the buildings. She’s got options so long as she makes good choices and doesn’t…ugh!! Slip…a ledge hop and walk that didn’t work out at all. She fluttered down to a small ledge right above the Scotia Bank; the same spot she was rescued from two evenings ago by the local community. Why she needed to show me her previous rescue location I’ll never know but here she was a mere 10 feet above the sidewalk and the entire ledge was covered in pigeon spikes for whole length. The spikes are bendable and not sharp at all. They are meant to deter nesting, not injure birds. For her they were hampering her ability to open her wings and find good footing. At this point, with traffic screaming past me on Yonge st, I called Bruce for back up. While I watched two amazing members of the community joined me that were keen to help. Their names escape me at the moment as I am too tired to even remember my own!! They took the west side of the street where she was and I gave them instructions of what to do if she came to ground on their side. I positioned myself on the edge of the road at the construction line on the east side so cars saw me and thinking I was trying to cross, they slowed down. Slowed enough that I could make an emergency stop of traffic as it looked like this was going to be a street rescue. The goofy bird walked south, navigating the bending spikes up her rear, between her toes and under her wings. She walked all the way south until she ran out of ledge and just before Bruce could get out of the subway she flew. She came out low over Yonge Street and just barely cruised over a car on her way south. She tried for the low roof of the connecting causeway between the Canada Square towers and came up short clinging to the wall. That meant we needed to go at this again. I was now in the thick of the street and it all happened in slow motion. She let go, dropped a few feet and headed for Yonge Street flying east. She dodged a second car and landed on the retaining wall of the Minto towers mezzanine after which she plopped down into their gardens. A tenant came out and found me in the street just as Bruce arrived and offered to take me up. Yes please. Thanks to Todd I was able to grab her and get her into a carrier. Canada Square community, you are brilliant. To the folks that helped and were prepared to do whatever we reasonably could for the safety of Raptorette I thank you with the most heartfelt and greatest of respect for all of you. You were amazing!! Thank you once again to Canada Square building management for pulling out all of the stops for this family, Paragon security for being the best support for us watchers and all of you for your kindness and support. She’s back on the ledge and we’re back at it tomorrow!! Photo taken by me, Tracy Simpson
I’m so done. I’m so exhausted. I so wish I could say that I’d had all 6 family members at dusk but I can’t. I can confirm that I had three juveniles in view at once but that’s it. I can say without doubt that I had Raptorette on the north side of Canada Square at nest ledge level. I can say that I had Screaming Legals fly into the nest ledge and then up to the tip of an antenna. He then disappeared to the east out of view. As it was getting dusky, two juveniles flew up to Heart and Stroke roof but I have no idea who they were. I did get pictures but I’m too tired to work them up for a possible ID. I’ve been working in a 52C truck all day and my brain is fried. Bruce said that he’d briefly had all 6 in view but I didn’t at any time have all 4 juveniles. That’s not to say they aren’t all there but after Spicy P’s nose dive onto the theatre roof with a pigeon in his talons I was really hoping to see him to ease my mind. I’m sure they are all there but I need confirmation on Spicy P for sure. The watch is now officially closed and scaled back to spot checks and I’ll be back tomorrow if I can to find Spicy P and rest my stressed head for awhile afterwards. More to come!
Published by Tracy Simpson · 46 mins ·
CANADA SQUARE - Bruce was down in the morning and had some birds on site but they were backlit and silhouetted and so was unable to get tape color. He was pretty sure he had three. He came back down this afternoon and at one point saw all six members of this family. I have been able to confirm that Screaming Legals with green tape is currently sitting on the Canadian tire building on the very top spire of the highest antenna. I have also been able to confirm that Raptorette is back and is sitting at nest ledge level on the north side of Canada Square. I will be leaving shortly to head up to the CPF raptor centre as in this heat I change their waters daily and sometimes even twice a day depending on how hot it is. With that job pending I want to do that in the light and so I’m hoping, at the very least, to see Spicy P with white tape before I go. That would make my day.