January 27, 2024 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
More good news, this time from the Don Mills site! Canuck has been positively ID’d and he’s with a female. Ted was there yesterday and they both showed up for him. Canuck obliged nicely showing his bands but who we think is Bellatrix, would not even give a peek at her legs! Shy I guess lol. Without seeing her legs, we can’t say for certain it’s her. But there will be lots of time for that!
So glad Canuck is still there…. Mating season is around the corner. Can’t wait!
Thank you Ted for the great pics.
Posted on March 11, 2024 3:15 pm
March 04, 2024 - Brampton - Courthouse
Cathy Kerr Reports:
TOIVO Asikainen Reports:
Brampton once again has a pair of Peregrines calling the Courthouse on Main st south of Steeles home. In this photo taken Sun ‘Mar 3rd Male on the upper ledge and Female the lower, the inside corner on the R side is the actual nest site where the last successful fledge Courtney hatched and, daughter to Milton and Truss in 2011. this ledge faces Main st and the Peel Region Police station
Posted on March 11, 2024 3:04 pm
January 19, 2024 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Bronte, 2017 hatch from Burlington lift bridge, parents Mackenzie (2008 hatch, Bloor & Islington ) & Jo(2014 hatch, Mount Clemens Michigan), has been spotted in Hamilton last week!! Ryk Naves got some great pics of him and shared the news with us!
Thanks Ryk!
PICTURES TO FOLLOW!
Posted on January 28, 2024 8:38 pm
January 27, 2024 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Some good news from the Don Mills site! Canuck has been positively ID’d and he’s with a female. Ted was there yesterday and they both showed up for him. Canuck obliged nicely showing his bands but who we think is Bellatrix, would not even give a peek at her legs! Shy I guess lol. Without seeing her legs, we can’t say for certain it’s her. But there will be lots of time for that!
So glad Canuck is still there…. Mating season is around the corner. Can’t wait!
Thank you Ted for the great pics.
PICTURES TO FOLLOW!
Posted on January 28, 2024 8:24 pm
September 11, 2023 - Toronto - Don Mills and Eglinton - Amexon
Cathy Kerr Reports:
And more good news! Our Paige from Don Mills/Amexon was seen again today at Tommy Thompson Park (Mike confirmed it was her on Sept 3rd)…she sure likes it there! Thanks to Dana for letting us know and thanks to Norman Franke for the fantastic pictures!
She’s a beauty that’s for sure
Posted on September 11, 2023 9:02 pm
September 10, 2023 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Well great news! Ted let me know (late last night after I posted lol) that he had seen Canuck yesterday later afternoon but didn’t see the new girl! I am very happy to share Ted’s pictures of Canuck!!!
Posted on September 11, 2023 7:05 am
September 10, 2023 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
For the past 4 days I have seen an unbanded female on site. I have not had eyes on Canuck any of those days. I know it’s hard to see(believe me!) but it is nature. And I really want this site to continue.. And that through Canuck, Quest and Mystery’s legacy can continue.
As she is unbanded, we cannot say for sure if she is the same female from the spring. Nor can we say if she had anything to do with Quest’s injury. We will never know. And who knows if she will be here in the spring? For now, we watch.
Posted on September 10, 2023 8:11 pm
September 03, 2023 - Toronto - Don Mills and Eglinton - Amexon
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Ok. Time for some good news! Mike McInnis was at Tommy Thompson Park Sept 3rd and took these fantastic pictures. The banded juvie is definitely one of ours but he only got the white tape, no good shot of the numbers. So it’s either Paige from Don Mills/Amexon, Pip from William Osler or Gibson from Hamilton. Now, I’m biased lol. But it sure looks like Paige. It’s in her area, plus she was positively ID’d a month ago in Tommy Thompson Park! But, since we cannot positively ID her here, it’s one of the 3. Which is fantastic. And what great shots of her! Chasing those ducks!! I think she was having a little fun lol. He also saw an unbanded juvie down there too, so it’s a very popular spot for the young to hang out.
Thanks again to Mike!
Posted on September 7, 2023 6:09 pm
September 03, 2023 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Farewell Quest part 2:
So this really is goodbye… She was fierce, beautiful, magnificent, tough as nails, a warrior, a great mom to 40 chicks! She came to Don Mills in 2011, Kendall in tow. The people at the nest building imbraced them and so did the people across the street - Harlequin! Up until they left (2018 I believe??) we had some wonderful eyes and ears (Sally would hear that juvie scream as they raced between the buildings, chasing Mom or Dad or each other) on our girl. And Quest never left. The guys would leave, sometimes months at a time it seemed but she stayed to protect her territory. And they always returned, until they couldn’t. She always ruled the roost… She would talk up a storm to her mates(5), and they would do as she told them lol. That was our girl. She would give them short stints on the eggs, or let them give a mouthful or 2 to the kids, then that was it! Her job! How many times I would laugh at poor Kendall or Mystery… They would bring in the food, try to get it to the kids but she’d snatch it from them.. The look on their faces! Then she would lovingly feed them, talking to them. Beautiful. She never liked us banding her chicks… Our climbers got an earful and sometimes a little smack! And then when we would rescue the fledglings… She watched us. And this year she showed us that she knew we’d return them… A favourite moment, watching her up on that roof, looking down, back and forth, for Valkyrie to be returned… Mark was there… Why wasn’t her boy back yet lol.. As Sally said, she’d been studying us all these years just as we had been studying her .
I loved looking back at the pictures of her early days… How the nest ledge changed… And Quest just rolled with it… Nothing seemed to phase her.
For Ramesh, Mano, Carolyn, Bob, everyone at CPF, Bruce, Kathy, Tracy (everyone has watched her) , our photographers, Ted and Rob, and especially Mark and Marion, Sally & I , it won’t be the same. She’s touched all of us.
Quest, we are going to miss you so much. Fly high our warrior queen
Posted on September 3, 2023 4:27 pm
September 01, 2023 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Time to say goodbye to our beautiful girl… I’m doing it in 2 parts, starting with her first 3 years. I was given the link to her Rochester home-thanks to Carol Phillips for that! Reading about her banding, where she got her name(a school!), the transmitter being put on-, by our own Mark Nash! Then you read her travels from there to Cape Cod, Nantucket, Port Colborne, New York, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston , Pickering, Hamilton (not necessarily in that order) and finally, home. She sure had some great adventures (and lots of fans too) before she settled down here and became a Mom .
Thank you to Carol, Lou Capuano, Dana Mulhern and all the Rochester group for the pictures and info on our girl, and for their support all these years! Hopefully we will be able to follow Quest’s kids and grandkids for years to come
Posted on September 3, 2023 3:53 pm
