I stopped in at Holcim today and was able to confirm the presence of a new male and that Caspian is in full time incubation. Details on my visit later tonight.
April 7th - 2015
Hi All,
It is a shame about Storm, the little guy graced our skies for quite a few years, but, I guess that is the way Mother Nature works. We did observe territorial warfare going on about 3 weeks ago, but did not know the outcome.
At this time we can confirm that incubation is going on, and we have 4 eggs in the nest. (photos will be attached). The eggs were laid over the Easter weekend. (April 3-5). Yesterday April 6, we observed a change of shift at 11 am and a male did come to the nest. I guess now all we need to do is to ID this pair, or at least this male. The photos are of the 2 different birds.
Take care.
Armando
April 1st - 2015
Good news, as Desmond has reported seeing both adult peregrines down at the Hearn plant, and love is in the air for sure!! After being able to spend several hours down at the Hearn plant, Desmond reports seeing both peregrines on site, and involved in several copulation sessions throughout his observation period.
While we have yet to identify “the spot” in which the pair have decided to lay their eggs, it would appear that they are both still very much around and looking again to the Hearn Plant to lay their eggs and raise their family.
We were able to confirm that the resident adult male is still Peter, (produced in Hamilton at the Hamilton Sheraton hotel),, but his mate has not yet been identified as yet this year.
The next mystery is to locate and identify the nest location…………..
Stay tuned………………
April 6th - 2015
A big thank you to the great staff at the Mississauga Animal Control for chasing us down this afternoon, sadly although, with some not so good news.
We are saddened to report that a deceased adult banded peregrine was picked up by their wildlife officers after a report was called into them of a downed, banded peregrine falcon around Hwy. #10 and the Lakeshore Blvd in Mississauga,, (just on the boarder of Oakville and Mississauga) Ontario.
The leg band identification told another part of the story, with the Solid Black banded peregrine - 94 over D, identified as “Storm”, a 2004 produced peregrine from the Etobicoke Bloor & Islington nest site.
Most recently, Storm was identified last season as being the resident territorial adult male at the Holcim nest site in Mississauga Ontario,, (not too far at all from where Storm’s body was recovered).
The obvious head trauma and other injuries were very consistent of a collision type of injury. No photos will be posted due to the graphic nature of the birds injuries.
The obvious question now remains,,, is Storm still Holcim’ s resident adult male (or should I say, was he),,, and,, who (if anyone), has replaced him at the Holcim nest site??????????
Recent observations of a few days ago, had two adults on site at Holcim, with copulation between the two resident adults having been observed.
April 6th - 2015
A big thank you to the great staff at the Mississauga Animal Control for chasing us down this afternoon, sadly although, with some not so good news.
We are saddened to report that a deceased adult banded peregrine was picked up by their wildlife officers after a report was called into them of a downed, banded peregrine falcon around Hwy. #10 and the Lakeshore Blvd in Mississauga,, (just on the boarder of Oakville and Mississauga) Ontario.
The leg band identification told another part of the story, with the Solid Black banded peregrine - 94 over D, identified as “Storm”, a 2004 produced peregrine from the Etobicoke Bloor & Islington nest site.
Most recently, Storm was identified last season as being the resident territorial adult male at the Holcim nest site in Mississauga Ontario,, (not too far at all from where Storm’s body was recovered).
The obvious head trauma and other injuries were very consistent of a collision type of injury. No photos will be posted due to the graphic nature of the birds injuries.
The obvious question now remains,,, is Storm still Holcim’ s resident adult male (or should I say, was he),,, and,, who (if anyone), has replaced him at the Holcim nest site??????????
Recent observations of a few days ago, had two adults on site at Holcim, with copulation between the two resident adults having been observed.
April 2nd - 2015
A big thank you to Roger Leekam for sharing some his photos with us of the pair on the nest lest ledge in the middle of a food drop.
O’Connor has laid her second egg under the cover of darkness. This morning there are two eggs in the nestbox!
March 30 – Fraser was at the KCI parking lot at 8:25 and initially no peregrines were present on the CTV Bell Media tower. Just as Fraser was leaving, one flew in and landed on the box and within seconds the second peregrine arrived and perched on the tower. The first bird disappeared inside the box while the other remained on the tower. The birds were still there when Fraser left around 10 minutes later. At 5:30, Lisa was watching and saw one of the peregrines sitting on the balcony of the nest box. After about 15 minutes, the other grine flew into the nest box and both went inside. One flew out right away and cirlcled around to the media tower onto King’s Towers on the platform under the top drum and kept a watchful eye on the nest box calling from time to time. The other grine stayed inside the nest box for the rest of the time until Lisa left the watch at about 6:15.
On Friday, April 2, Dale was down at CTV and watched the live feed from the nest webcam. Mystery was hunkered down on the eggs and she has laid a third egg! Caster was off hunting from 12:30 to 1:30. Dale also observed with binoculars from the KW Hospital parking garage, Mystery in the nest box, not quite at eye level but still clearly in sight. Later on at around 4:00, Janice observed Mystery at the Sun Life tower having an early supper eating a fairly large bird. Full time incubation has not quite started yet judging by this observation.
On April 5, a post on the CTV News showed that there has been a fourth egg laid in the nest box sometime on Saturday, April 4! Full time incubation should be starting shortly! For video clips posted on the CTV site, copy the url below and search for “peregrine falcon” and all posted video clips will be listed.
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video
It appears the Hunter and Seven are setting up house keeping on the east ledge of the hospital. Very consistent courtship behaviour observed, with copulation and a ‘hand- off” of the “nest’ area. They could be in the early stages of egg production, as they are paying attention to one particular ledge. Unable to confirm the presence of eggs, as this is a difficult area to get a sight line into the ledge itself. Observations will continue for behavioural changes in the adults to indicate full time incubation of eggs. Exciting, as this would be the first nest for the female Seven.
Yesterday Bruce Massey visited the Canada Square nest site to check in on Haven and her mate. After checking in with building management he headed upstairs to check for the presence of eggs. The first egg has not arrived yet but the adults are definitely working on a scrape. Bruce did positively identify the unbanded adult female known as Haven but has yet to confirm whether the male is still Malik. We will continue to try and confirm the ID of the male and watch for the arrival of the first egg.