July 03, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
Published by Tracy Simpson · 20 hrs ·
I just wrote a decently long post on this site and my internet bugged out and I lost it. I’m not amused so here is the Coles notes. Raptorette flew several times and made it up to Rio Can roof but when she took her next flight she was chased by her brothers in play and she freaked out. She flew due west out of sight and hasn’t returned yet. We are not concerned that she is grounded but it may take her a day to get back. Haven brought in a pigeon for the boys at dusk and thought it was a perfect line up for Spicy P to take a food transfer. Well, in reality he grabbed it off of her. He came down in the area of the Theater roof at 2190 Yonge between the Can Sq. and Can Tire towers out of my view. I was really worried at dark as I hadn’t seen him come up from that and it was a really heavy package for him. I cleared the ground around the whole Canada Square block before I lost all my light and I couldn’t see him down. I left not knowing much and I don’t like that at all so I’m going to bed. Bruce will be in tomorrow morning and I will post what he finds right away. Let’s all wish these kids well as they are driving us nuts!!!
Posted on July 4, 2019 9:04 pm
June 28, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
All 4 seen on nest ledge last night at close of watch. Raptorette (red) not seen flying so only 2 flights seen by watchers so far the boys however are doing great.
Posted on June 29, 2019 9:38 am
June 26, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
Lance and I watched the chicks for a couple hours and all they did was sleep in the heat I think they had been fed and were not much interested in flying.
Late this afternoon Raptorette made a short flight out to a crane in front of the nest but missed the landing. She flew towards the Canadian Tire building and hooked back landing on a small scaffold just in front of the nest ledge.
Mark and Tracy joined me watching until early evening Tracy had to go to check on the Mt Sinai chicks. The boys spent most of the evening flying around and in and out of the nest. Spicy P is the best flyer of the 4. The boys are a check mark as far as the watch goes but need to check up on Raptorette who is a bit of a ledge potato and is not making many flights (we have only seen 2 flights from her so far). Mark and I closed the watch at dark and 2 chicks were on the nest ledge and 2 were 2 ledges over with Haven on the roof.
Not the best photos but best I could do with my little camera.
1st picture Raptorette on Scaffold after flight
2nd picture Blue Koji in flight chasing mom for food
3rd shot Green Screaming Eagles on balcony of Duplex apartment
4th shot white Spicy P on top of Nest Building
5th shot white Spicy P on antenna on roof of nest building
Posted on June 27, 2019 9:52 am
June 26, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
I stopped in at Canada Square nest site tonight to check on the four fledglings and see how they were doing. At first I couldn’t find anyone. Then slowly the heads began to pop up as Haven was making passes at pigeons in the neighborhood. The first juvenile to stick it to head up was way up on top of the Rio Can building . It had been flat out sleeping and so was difficult to see. The second juvenile was up on top of the Heart and Stroke building. Another high flier! Haven then settled in on the upright right above the nest ledge and up popped head number three. This juvenile was down on what we call the porch and was looking for some shade. I was still missing one and was waiting patiently for that fourth head to pop up. When it did finally make an appearance, what a grand appearance it was! This juvenile came in from out of nowhere and was soaring on the thermals above the nest building. It continued to circle and soar for a good 2 to 3 minutes before finally landing on the roof of the Canadian Tire building. Unbelievable flight by this one. Three of these juveniles are definitely checkmarks and the fourth, the one on the porch, we will be watching tomorrow to see how it does. I was able to take some photographs of the young ones but being that they are distant I will have to look on my computer at home and blow the photos up to get tape colour and properly identify who is who. More to come.
Tracy
Posted on June 26, 2019 6:44 am
June 14, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Cathy Kerr Reports:
The nest ledge is just outside a window, so Lucie took some photos from this perspective
Posted on June 14, 2019 11:27 am
June 06, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
Here are a few shots of the banding day.
Posted on June 6, 2019 10:16 am
June 04, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
more boys than girls this year. there were 3 boys and 1 girl this year.
Thanks to the kind folks at CANFAR for sharing their office space and allowing us to band the chicks in their board room and the building management and security at Canada Square for arranging everything for us and for the great guys from Solar Window washing who extracted the chicks from the ledge.
Haven was her usual feisty self defending the nest while we were banding the chicks and they guys from Solar did a great job keeping her distracted.
Here are then names of the new chicks.
Koji male band R over 17.
Screaming Legals male band 99 over Y.
Spicy P male band 00 over AW.
Raptorette female band Z over 28.
Posted on June 5, 2019 8:38 am
May 28, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
We know Malik was found dead on the roof so who is the new male? Security was finally able to get a band number on the new male Y over 31 and it is none other than Shadow produced at the William Osler Hospital in Etobicoke in 2017. Glad to see it’s a Canadian produced bird.
Posted on May 28, 2019 10:17 am
May 19, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
Banding date is set for June 4th. Please stay tuned for photos and banding information.
Posted on May 19, 2019 11:22 am
May 14, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
Security at Canada Square sent me a photo of the hatch. Stay tuned for banding information.
Posted on May 14, 2019 6:41 pm
