July 21, 2014 - Oshawa - Oshawa Activity
Mark Nash Reports:
July 21st -2014
2:38pm
One of the parents just brought her a meal, (Swiss Chalet) 
and is sitting beside her on the same ledge, the other parent is 2 stories above watching.
Thx,
Ken
1:36pm
Hi to all,
Salveo has taken her first flight, she is now sitting on a parapet ledge 2 stories below the roof where we captured her for banding.
The parents are both flying on the other side of the hospital, again they could be hunting.
Very cool.
Ken
Posted on July 21, 2014 1:55 am
July 16, 2014 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
Wednesday evening, three of the four juveniles were in view south of the Sheraton. Lots of tag playing and lots of very long flights. At one point the three were so high in the sky, you would not spot them unless you had tracked them skyward. Amazing, and flying effortlessly on the wind. They all returned to the area of the Sheraton and continued to chase each other.
Posted on July 16, 2014 7:56 pm
July 16, 2014 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
On Sunday morning, July 13th, at 7:01 I heard the squawking of a hungry youngster. It did not last long so I assumed he was fed. At 8:17 the same morning I again heard squawking. I was not awake enough to go and check. Just before 6:00 pm I went out. I was treated to the sight of and adult and juvie over Rio-Can (RC). Very soon after that Haven flew over RC and then Canada Square with a small food parcel. Haven was not giving that over easily and flew back to RC where she deposited it and the juvie took it. Haven eventually settled on the south face of RC. A juvie flew over Canada Square and south towards Davisville and was gone from view. Twenty minutes later Malik and a juvie were flying all over the top of RC, the Y/E intersection and Canada Square. They were quite high and circled and swooped for a few minutes before disappearing from view. I have no idea how many juvies I saw or whether it was the same one. All flights were strong.
Fast forward to today, July 15, when I heard a juvie squawking at approximately 2:00 pm. I eventually was out at around 6:00 pm. I did not have long to wait!! I had a wonderful private viewing of what the three, (3, count them) juvies can do.
The show started off quite slowly with one juvie flying in from the west, over 2190 Yonge and then to 2180 Yonge where he circled the antenna and played *touch-and-go* unsuccessfully and circled to try again. Three minutes later there were two juvies in the air over RC. One had just been kiting or hovering and the second one flew in at huge speed and they both turned and talon touched. Because of the speed and quick turn I thought that may have been an adult but it was a juvie. The two of them flew together over the Y/E intersection and Canada Square and south to the antenna atop 2180 Yonge.
Malik then entered the equation and flew over the tall condo, was joined by the twosome and all three flew back over Duplex Ave and somewhere west. Malik then took off and the *twosome* were left in his dust. They knew they were *bested* and simply kited where they were, back over 2180 Yonge. That was a temporary arrangement. A third peregrine flew in and I thought *oh dad is back*. Not so !!
For another twenty minutes I had three juveniles in the air, together and apart. Haven flew through the airspace once and went south. The three juvies then played every conceivable game they could, all in the airspace above Rio-Can, Canada Square, the Y/E intersection, the old bus bays, Duplex Ave and the Police Station. I had a front row seat to all this. They swooped and dived on one another at heart stopping (for me ) speeds. They turned and presented talons, sometimes just two and sometimes all three juvies. How they did not become entangled I don`t know. They practised hovering and kiting and did a few touch-and-goes. One little chappie was at the antenna on 2180 and had his wings spread doing a touch-and-go, I think, but he was near the end of one of the right jutting rods and kept moving right and more right and I knew what was coming! He *fell off* but of course just flew as if nothing untoward had happened.
The three also played tag or catch-me-if-you-can. Again I emphasise this was at great speed. Thank goodness they were high. There was a breeze on the ground and I think they found something they liked over the high buildings and simply used the wind to their advantage. Everything was so effortless! Rio-Can appeared to be the predominant playground of choice today until they flew up Duplex to number 500 where they played on the antenna a bit before disappearing altogether.
They are poetry in motion in the air now. Much of the *flap- flap* flight has disappeared and they fly almost effortlessly. They know to keep their height and they do!
Lyn
Posted on July 16, 2014 11:01 am
July 15, 2014 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
Simcoe was busy defending the nest as Tracy and Kathy from CPF collected the little hatchling at the Oshawa Lakeridge hospital nest site this past weekend. The hatchling was named “Salveo”, (which means in good health) in a name the chick contest by the Hospital staff later that day. You can see the yellow tape on Simcoe’s band that I placed overtop of his Silver USFW band at his banding. Many thanks to Tracy from the CPF for the being able to capture some great pictures of Simcoe.
Marion
Posted on July 15, 2014 2:15 pm
July 14, 2014 - Oshawa - Oshawa Activity
Tracy Simpson Reports:
On Saturday the CPF pulled together quickly to band the single young female chick hatched at the Lakeridge Hospital. The resident adults, Alfrieda from the Central Terminal nest site in Buffalo and Simoce from Canada Square here in Toronto, were in fine form giving Kathy Smith and I a good talking to. They came in several times but not too close as they are new to this and have some confidence building to do as productive parents. Still they were very active and did a great job.
Salveo, the single female chick, was banded downstairs and represents a new generation in the Windwhistler and Erin family tree. She is the great great granddaughter of this famous Toronto pair still nesting to this day at 18 King Street East, both now at the age of 16. Congratulations Lakeridge on your successful hatch and we look very forward to the future with Alfrieda and Simcoe.
Posted on July 14, 2014 6:41 pm
July 13, 2014 - Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Sunday July 13th - 2014
A big thank you to Lucie and Richard Kirchknoph who ventured down to Beachville Ontario this weekend to investigate a report of nesting peregrines.
Their efforts paid off as they were able to identify the resident adult male via his leg band number and identify that the resident adult female is also banded with a solid Black leg band, telling us that they are both Canadian produced peregrines. Reports of the peregrines having produced offspring this year have been coming in this past week and we have some some good news to report thanks to Lucie and Richard.
Hi Guys
Good investigation guys!!
The Pefa that you reported having a solid black band number turns up in our banding data base as:
A peregrine named “Joe” that was produced at the Hamilton Sheraton Hotel in 2010
He was a very small underweight male – weighing in at only 492 grams at banding, banded at 23 days old, on May 31st – 2010
His mother is Madame X and his father is named Surge.
Surge was produced at the Etobicoke nest site (Bloor & Islington in Toronto) in 2002
Madame X was produced at a nest site on a bridge in Pennsylvania USA in 1999.
Posted on July 14, 2014 2:47 pm
July 13, 2014 - International, National and Local News
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Sunday July 13th - 2014
A big thank you to Lucie and Richard Kirchknoph who ventured down to Beachville Ontario this weekend to investigate a report of nesting peregrines.
Their efforts paid off as they were able to identify the resident adult male via his leg band number and identify that the resident adult female is also banded with a solid Black leg band, telling us that they are both Canadian produced peregrines. Reports of the peregrines having produced offspring this year have been coming in this past week and we have some some good news to report thanks to Lucie and Richard.
Hi Guys
Good investigation guys!!
The Pefa that you reported having a solid black band number turns up in our banding data base as:
A peregrine named “Joe” that was produced at the Hamilton Sheraton Hotel in 2010
He was a very small underweight male – weighing in at only 492 grams at banding, banded at 23 days old on May 31st – 2010
His mother is Madame X as she has been called and his father was named Surge.
Surge was produced at the Etobicoke nest site (Bloor & Islington) in 2002
Madame X was produced at a nest site in Wilkes-Barre in the USA in 1999 and was nick-named – “Runaround Sue”
Posted on July 14, 2014 2:45 pm
July 12, 2014 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
July 12th - 2014
Tracy was able to confirm via photographs that she was able to take at the nest ledge during the extraction of the young hatchling that her two parents are in fact Simcoe who was produced at the Canada Square nest site at Yonge & Eglinton in 2012 and Alfrieda from Buffalo NY in 2012, confirmed via their leg band numbers.
What a great day and a successful banding! A huge thank you to all of the Lakeridge Hospital staff and their administration for hosting the banding event and making the day such a great success! A big thank you goes out to Mark Heaton from the Aurora District of the Ministry of Natural Resources who gave up yet another one of his days off to come out and band Oshawa Lakeridge Hospital’s newest resident, a young female peregrine hatchling that was produced by Oshawa’s first resident pair of peregrine falcons!
A huge thank you to the CPF team, Marion Nash, Tracy Simpson and Kathy Smith who also gave up yet another weekend of their time to pull this event together from our end to ensure that the young hatchling was extracted and returned back to her parents on the upper roof top.
Shortly after 10am, a huge crowd assembled down in the main lobby of the Lakeridge hospital, and by 10:20am, the star attraction had finally arrived from the roof. The entire outside rooftop nest ledge was viewed live from a colour GoPro camera worn by Tracy and Kathy that was displayed live-real-time on a large flat screen colour monitor that the hospital set up in the lobby beside the banding table to allow live viewing of the rooftop happenings.
Tracy and Kathy from the CPF were responsible this go-round to both safely extract the young peregrine hatchling from the upper roof elevation and to then remain on the upper oputside nest ledge elevation to distract both of the resident adult peregrine parents so that they wouldn’t realize that their young hatchling was missing during its absence for the banding. Marion from the CPF manned the banding table this banding to assist Mark Heaton from the MNR to do the banding.
Mark Nash from the CPF manned the mic and public address system to walk the audience through the banding procedure and to answer any questions throughout the banding event, and to take some of the photos to document the event.
A big thank you to Walter Raemisch who sent us some great photos of little SALVEO during her banding! Thank you Walter!
The particulars: The young hatchling was weighed, checked for its health, and successfully banded and named without incident and safely returned back it parents.
The little female hatchling, - now 28 days old,, (now identified clearly as a female, weighed 910 grams and was named “Salveo” by the hospital staff after a name the chick contest was completed). The name Salveo means “To be well, To be in good health”),, and that couldn’t have been any further from the truth, as she was a very healthy baby peregrine hatchling indeed!
She was banded with a Solid Black Canadian Recovery leg band number - Y over 90 and in typical fashion, a small piece of coloured Red tape was applied to her Silver USFW band so she can be easily identified at distance during her fledge period.
Tracy was able to confirm via photographs that she was able to take at the nest ledge level after the extraction that her two parents are in fact Simcoe and Alfrieda, confirmed via their leg band numbers.
Ernest (Earnie) Schouwerwou was on hand (the hospital staffer that first discovered the peregrines on the hospital less than a week ago) to help with the banding and was able to hold little Salveo during the banding process.
A great day indeed, with an incredible team of people that really scrambled in very short notice to make this all happen!!
The hospital has agreed to work with CPF and plans are now underway to have CPF manufacture and install a proper nest box on the hospital for their resident peregrines thus ensuring that they have more accommodating nesting conditions down the road.
As we have long since learned, with that of many of the urban nest sites, that a properly constructed nest box with the appropriate nesting sub-straight and drainage can make the difference from a total failure (or partial hatch) to a much better situation for the nesting adults, and increased production and success rate for the adults. There was also talk of a nest camera which would be a very welcomed addition to the nest, as it provides a great management tool to help with the logistics and management of the nest, in addition to being an incredible educational opportunity for all!
Stay tuned……………….
Posted on July 13, 2014 2:03 pm
July 12, 2014 - Oshawa - Oshawa Activity
CPF Postmaster Reports:
July 12th - 2014
What a great day and a successful banding! A huge thank you to all of the Lakeridge Hospital staff and their administration for hosting the banding event and making the day such a great success! A big thank you goes out to Mark Heaton from the Aurora District of the Ministry of Natural Resources who gave up yet another one of his days off to come out and band Oshawa Lakeridge Hospital’s newest resident, a young female peregrine hatchling that was produced by Oshawa’s first resident pair of peregrine falcons!
A huge thank you to the CPF team, Marion Nash, Tracy Simpson and Kathy Smith who also gave up yet another weekend of their time to pull this event together from our end to ensure that the young hatchling was extracted and returned back to her parents on the upper roof top.
Shortly after 10am, a huge crowd assembled down in the main lobby of the Lakeridge hospital, and by 10:20am, the star attraction had finally arrived from the roof. The entire outside rooftop nest ledge was viewed live from a colour GoPro camera worn by Tracy and Kathy that was displayed live-real-time on a large flat screen colour monitor that the hospital set up in the lobby beside the banding table to allow live viewing of the rooftop happenings.
Tracy and Kathy from the CPF were responsible this go-round to both safely extract the young peregrine hatchling from the upper roof elevation and to then remain on the upper oputside nest ledge elevation to distract both of the resident adult peregrine parents so that they wouldn’t realize that their young hatchling was missing during its absence for the banding. Marion from the CPF manned the banding table this banding to assist Mark Heaton from the MNR to do the banding.
Mark Nash from the CPF manned the mic and public address system to walk the audience through the banding procedure and to answer any questions throughout the banding event, and to take some of the photos to document the event.
A big thank you to Walter Raemisch who sent us some great photos of little SALVEO during her banding! Thank you Walter!
The particulars: The young hatchling was weighed, checked for its health, and successfully banded and named without incident and safely returned back it parents.
The little female hatchling, - now 28 days old,, (now identified clearly as a female, weighed 910 grams and was named “Salveo” by the hospital staff after a name the chick contest was completed). The name Salveo means “To be well, To be in good health”),, and that couldn’t have been any further from the truth, as she was a very healthy baby peregrine hatchling indeed!
She was banded with a Solid Black Canadian Recovery leg band number - Y over 90 and in typical fashion, a small piece of coloured Red tape was applied to her Silver USFW band so she can be easily identified at distance during her fledge period.
Tracy was able to confirm via photographs that she was able to take at the nest ledge level after the extraction that her two parents are in fact Simcoe and Alfrieda, confirmed via their leg band numbers.
Ernest (Earnie) Schouwerwou was on hand (the hospital staffer that first discovered the peregrines on the hospital less than a week ago) to help with the banding and was able to hold little Salveo during the banding process.
A great day indeed, with an incredible team of people that really scrambled in very short notice to make this all happen!!
The hospital has agreed to work with CPF and plans are now underway to have CPF manufacture and install a proper nest box on the hospital for their resident peregrines thus ensuring that they have more accommodating nesting conditions down the road.
As we have long since learned, with that of many of the urban nest sites, that a properly constructed nest box with the appropriate nesting sub-straight and drainage can make the difference from a total failure (or partial hatch) to a much better situation for the nesting adults, and increased production and success rate for the adults. There was also talk of a nest camera which would be a very welcomed addition to the nest, as it provides a great management tool to help with the logistics and management of the nest, in addition to being an incredible educational opportunity for all!
Stay tuned……………….
Posted on July 12, 2014 11:37 pm
July 12, 2014 - International, National and Local News
CPF Postmaster Reports:
July 11th - 2014
We have been able to pull together the banding event for Saturday July 12th at 10am in the main lobby of the Lakeridge Hospital!
You are all invited to attend!
Please come out and support your peregrines.
Stay tuned for banding photos and details…………..
Posted on July 12, 2014 2:52 am
