March 26, 2013 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Tracy Simpson Reports:
I stopped by the Burlington Lift Bridge today to follow up on the excellent observations of Bill and Sue of Cirrus laying down in the back of the nest box out of view. I met up with Todd who assisted me in getting a look at and monitor to confirm the news… …Cirrus has eggs!!!!! Upon arrival at the box, I could see that Cirrus was laying down and was sound asleep protecting the precious package beneath her. She stirred very little and only moved once to reposition herself. It was then that I was able to see at least one egg in the nest bowl but I am sure there are others by the way in which the egg was placed; it was leaning against another that was just out of my view. While we are unsure as to the total number of eggs, I can confirm that she is in full time incubation as of today and that the first egg, in talking with the bridge staff, was in the box by March 19th. Given that subsequent eggs follow within 48 hours of each other at the outset, March 23rd is the latest when the clutch would have reached completion for a full set of four eggs. A huge thank you to the bridge staff and watchers Bill and Sue for your vigilance, support and great observations and congratulations to Cirrus and McKenzie for being the first of 2013 in southern Ontario!!!!!!
Pictures to follow.
Posted on March 27, 2013 6:57 am
March 26, 2013 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
This morning when I arrived, O’Connor was sitting by the nest box in the semi dark. When I checked on her an hour later she was still there looking very lethargic. Jack arrived chupping with some food for her and went to ledge 3 to prepare it.
This afternoon he has been by twice when I’ve checked sitting on the web cam while she’s been in the nest box. How do I know she’s in there? Because just before he left last time, a chup fest between then ensued - was she sharing some ‘egg’citing news with him? or was he just telling her he was off to his other site and would be back later to see if she had ’something’ to show him?
Stay tuned…
Posted on March 26, 2013 1:37 pm
March 23, 2013 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Hi All
Wow, looks like the new resident female has added some new material to the nest box.
Don’t panic, as the small pieces of wood that you see are bits of a small 2×2 that the new resident female has been “picking away at for months”. It’s a small 2×2 from the outside upper roof area of the nest box. Sadly, we couldn’t get to it in time last fall – (to replace it or to simply remove it). **Remembering that we need a full window washers swing stage and a crew to get to the nest ledge.
That being said, it looks like she’s doing a fine job with it - all on her own. No danger or worries as we have been very much aware of the loose 2×2. The new resident adult female seemed very unhappy with the loose 2×2 (the old glue has finally let go and the small piece of 2×2 was separating itself from the upper outside roof portion of the nest box),,,, so it appears that she is / has removed it on her own.
Let’s hope that she doesn’t decide to do a “complete interior renovation” of the entire nest box and starts moving the walls!!!
Poor Sante – (her feathered mate) has had enough challenges and stress to deal with last year when his mate disappeared, two of his fledglings were killed, then had to defend his territory and remaining fledgling from the rouge female intruder - (now his current mate by the way) and then having to raise his surviving offspring all on his own while still having to defend both her and the territory!!
We will replace the 2×2 at banding time. I have a new piece in hand that has already been cut to size, stained – (colour matched) to the existing nest box. It’s not actually a critical piece, as much as it is for cosmetic appearances of the nest box itself. We like our nest boxes with curb-appeal!
Stay tuned, eggs are just around the corner…………….
Posted on March 24, 2013 5:25 pm
March 23, 2013 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Marion Nash Reports:
March 23, 2013
Caught both adults on nest today at the Toronto Sheraton nest. RM looks like she is going to put down eggs soon. When she got up there were none yet.
Posted on March 23, 2013 2:08 pm
March 19, 2013 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 19th - 2013
A huge thank you to David Goodfellow who spent the time to find us, we may now have someone very close to the Scarborough Yellow pages nest site that has some elevation (and very close to the peregrines winter roosting spot)!
While the first lot of photos that he has sent into us are not the most recent - (taken 2010, 2011 and 2012), they do show some great close-up views of Linn and her mate, in addition to some other very interesting regular avian visitors. He admits that he rarely see’s the grins in the summer time (as they are typically incubating and raising their hatchlings over at the Yellow pages building nest site). This observation and behaviour is very consistent to many of our other resident urban peregrines in that most of them have different fall and winter roosts, hunting areas and other hang-outs. While they are still very much “on territory” and watching and protecting the nest area’s very closely, they don’t spent allot of time on the nest ledges in the fall and winter months.
After seeing the first lot of peregrine photos, we can wait to see what else David has been able to capture on film! Great shots David!!
Other more recent observation reports of the Yellow pages pair, reports both resident adults are very much on site with lots of courtship activities going on!
Stay tuned……………
Posted on March 22, 2013 11:38 pm
March 21, 2013 - Ottawa - Delta Ottawa City Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 21st - 2013
A huge thank you to both Melanie Gilhen for the great photos and to Gillian Cooper for getting them to us.
Melanie was in the right place at the right time and happened to capture some great photos of the resident adult on the Delta Hotel enjoying a morning meal. Sadly, the adult peregrine is not banded and no-one can be sure just who it really is. Speculation abounds as to the birds identity, but sadly, without a band number, there is no real way to confirm the birds identity or it history.
There was only one peregrine observed, but fingers crossed, given that its still on territory, we all have our fingers crossed that there is a mate not too far away!
STAY TUNED……………..
**Most of the other southern Ontario urban nest sites are already involved in some serious courtship activities and/or egg production.
It would appear that Etobicoke Sun Life pair have started to lay eggs and the Burlington Lift Bridge pair may already be involved in at least part time incubation duties.
Posted on March 22, 2013 10:13 pm
March 22, 2013 - Mississauga - Holcim
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Friday March 22nd- 2013
5:58pm - While both resident adults were visible for about 45 minutes today while I was onsite, the pair were very busy this evening. Several copulations between the two were observed, each time with the adult male returning back to the corner of the nest ledge, followed by the female. The adult female then disappeared back into the nest ledge where she stayed for 8 to 10 minutes at a time. She re-appeared and the two repeated the entire exercise over the 45 minutes that I was on site.
Sadly I didn’t have a camera with me as the observation view from Avonhead Road is a fantastic vantage point to see the birds and the nest ledge! I’ll be bringing the camera next time for sure!!
It would appear that the two are not yet incubating any eggs, but egg production is just days away.
stay tuned…………
Posted on March 22, 2013 9:48 pm
March 22, 2013 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
Due to the weather the past week or so it has been somewhat challenging to determine what is going on up on the ledge from the ground.
All I can say for certain is that both falcons, when they are here, have been sitting tight to the ledge. O’connor is spending most of her time either on the web cam dozing, on the nest ledge by the nest box or in the nest box.
Not much of an update but it’s the best I’ve got right now.
Posted on March 22, 2013 10:10 am
March 20, 2013 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Mark Nash Reports:
March 20th - 2013
We are experiencing some problems at the server level with the main web cam at the Toronto Sheraton centre. Stay tuned, as we are working on the problem.
No eggs as yet.
Posted on March 20, 2013 4:56 pm
March 19, 2013 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
Posted on March 19, 2013 1:37 pm
