April 01, 2014 - Toronto - Hearn Power Station
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 31st - 2014
I was able to spend several hours down at the Hearn plant on Unwin Ave this evening and spotted both the resident adults on site moments after my arrival. For the next several hours, (until 8pm and my light faded), both birds were in full view for the most parts in their usual roosting spots with multiple computations observed.
While I was unable to identify leg band numbers or colours due to the distances involved, I was able to confirm that the resident adult female is NOT banded. Sadly, the resident adult male never came lower than the mid elevation of the superstructure, and due to the poor lighting conditions, there was no way of getting close enough to him even with a 75 power spotting scope eyepiece to see if he was banded, let alone actually identifying any leg band digits.
As you can see by the attached photos of the resident adult female, both of her legs are void of any leg bands. The resident adult male of the last few years at Hearn was a Black Banded male named Peter that was produced in Hamilton Ontario, at the Hamilton Sheraton Hotel nest site. We are looking to confirm his leg band number to see if it is still Peter. He dawns a solid Black recovery band on one leg and the usual Silver USFW band on the other leg.
Throughout my observations, the resident adult male went on several hunts, and was successful on two occasions in his efforts in capturing and killing food. He brought food into the female and dined on the second kill himself.
Even after a big meal and several copulations, the female did not give up the location where she intends to lay her eggs as she was visible throughout my entire observation period.
Its going to take a few more visits and some very close observations to find out where she has decided to lay her eggs!
Egg production is close, as they are busy copulating and egg fertilization and egg laying is very close!
Looking for any and all assistance if you are down at the Hearn location to do some observations and let us know what you are seeing…..
Stay tuned, more to come………..
Posted on April 1, 2014 12:22 pm
April 01, 2014 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
Tiago and Rhea Mae on the Sheraton tray at 09:15 this morning.
Posted on April 1, 2014 9:17 am
April 01, 2014 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Kathy Reports:
Sometime between 4 pm yesterday and this morning, one egg seems to have been disposed of by our resident pair. As of this morning, we have 2 eggs at MEC. Thank you to DEF from BCAW for alerting me to this development.
Posted on April 1, 2014 8:17 am
March 31, 2014 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
At around 7:00 am on Friday Mar. 28th Trillium laid her 1st egg of the year. Sadly enough, at 2:00 pm the same day she proceeded to consume the egg that she sat on all day. We are really concerned about this very disturbing behaviour considering she has consumed about a dozen eggs over the last couple of years. We wonder what possible reason would provoke this unusual habit. Trillium has not produced any more eggs yet. However, Buffalo Bill was observed in the nest box today digging out the scrape. The CPF thinks that there could be a territorial struggle going on here but we have not witnessed any confrontations or intruders in the area. I was up to check the beam where she has laid eggs in the past just in case she decided to try a different spot but thankfully there is nothing there. Never a dull moment here, but there certainly are some discouraging ones.
Posted on March 31, 2014 8:46 pm
March 31, 2014 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
Egg #3 was due yesterday but as of earlier today I still didn’t see one. O’Connor was on and off today but in the last hour she’s been ‘on’ and just now Jack came in and we have had a ’shift’ change. Considering the temperature outside - which is actually plus 8C - I wouldn’t expect that if there are only 2 eggs as they don’t start incubation until the second to last egg is laid.
Could egg #3 not be visible to us because of the nest box and cam angle? We’ll have to wait and see. But as of 5:17 pm I can still only clearly see 2 eggs in the nest box.
Posted on March 31, 2014 5:17 pm
March 24, 2014 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 24th - 2014
Good morning!
The season is heating up in Toronto!
Rhea Mae & Tiago enjoyed a bit of beaking this morning.
And Rhea Mae was kind enough to show her VID band this morning…black/red P/*T…it’s always good to know for sure it’s still “our” girl!
Ei
Posted on March 31, 2014 4:15 pm
March 31, 2014 - Toronto - Hearn Power Station
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 27th - 2014
Hello Guys
I witnessed this at the Hearn Generating Station on Unwin Avenue just after 1:00pm March 27th. It is a terrible photo because they were just too far away but if you can use it please feel free to.
Cheers.
Paul Reeves
Posted on March 31, 2014 3:35 pm
March 30, 2014 - International, National and Local News
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 30th - 2014
Amexon Nest site - Don Mills & Eglinton - (ICICI)
While I know that I likely over reacting, it was never the less somewhat disturbing after spending several hours at the Don Mills nest site at Eglinton Ave and Don Mills Road having not seen either of the two resident peregrines anywhere. After more than an hour of sitting and watching the nest building and nest ledge, we decided to take a tour around the neighborhood to check all of the usual roosting spots and leading edges of most all of the other buildings from various viewing spots, and each turned up negative. No peregrines anywhere to be found!!
After talking to security, they did inform us that their grins were very vocal several days earlier, and could be herd from the ground level, so we know that have been around.
What was also somewhat disturbing, was the lack of “fresh” white-wash staining under their usual roosting spots. Hmmmm?
Thinking positively, we hope that they are already involved in full time incubation on the nest ledge, and the non-incubating adult was simply off hunting or roosting in a non-typical spot.
Time will tell, (and a whole lot more observations are needed)!!
Any assistance with observations if you have the time to get out and spend some time watching would be most appreciative!
Posted on March 30, 2014 10:34 pm
March 30, 2014 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Sunday March 30th - 2014
Some exciting news today, in that we have confirmed that there maybe part-time incubation underway, (if not full-time) at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site. After several hour of roaming around Toronto’s east end to get some additional nest site updates, we ended our day at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site and found Ruben (the resident adult male) high up on the upper elevation of the nest site building (south side) in the middle of a preen-feast, looking rather dapper indeed!
For the next few hours, Linn (the resident adult female) was no where to be found as we circled the building on numerous occasions with no luck seeing her. Then, just as 7 o’clock passed and the sun setting to the west, out pops Linn from a ledge on the upper south west column, (south east facing ledge) directly in our view from the south YP parking lot.
As she exited the ledge, it was obvious that she had food in her clutches and she proceeded to fly around to the east, then around to the north side of the building out of our view. Ruben took flight and pursued her. They both returned moments later coming around from the west side of the building, with both of them returning to the same ledge that Linn had appeared from earlier.
At this point, both birds disappeared down into the ledge itself and out of our sight. Some 15 minutes later, Ruben re-appeared from the ledge, spent several minutes looking down into the ledge where Linn had disappeared, and then flew up to an upper ledge elevation on the west side of the south east column, where he stayed until we left.
Linn never did re-appear from the other ledge, and it would appear that she might be involved in at least part-time incubation, (if not now involved in full time incubation).
We will be doing another site visit later on in the week.
Stay tuned……..
Posted on March 30, 2014 6:21 pm
March 27, 2014 - Toronto - Hearn Power Station
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 27th - 2014
Hey Guys,
I just wanted to give you an update on the observations they we gathered at the old Hearn power plant. For the past week, there has been two peregrines back hanging around the plant - (most likely Angela and Peter). They were observed copulating yesterday and again today. Lets hope that they pick a good nest site this year. Talk to you soon.
Desmond
Posted on March 30, 2014 2:12 pm
