June 17, 2022 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Marion Nash Reports:
What an exciting afternoon! After Diana went missing this morning, she was reported seen by a resident this afternoon, sitting on top of the entrance to the garage. After attempting to fly from there, she was unable to get enough lift so came to ground in the parking lot . We prevented her from walking across towards the road. and then she flew low to just in front of the Clubhouse where she got herself caught up in the shrubs where Patrick was able to catch her with the towel and we immediately placed her in the pet carrier. She will be released tonight on the rooftop when it gets dark where she will stay until first light when Mom & Dad will take over.
Thanks to all involved in the rescue.
Barb
Posted on June 17, 2022 10:28 am
June 15, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
Unbanded Jamie fledged sometime early this morning and when because when we got there he was gone off the nest. We spent time throughout the day searching for him but could not find him. I expect and hope like the others he is high enough to be safe and he will show up sooner or later. the other 3 Sasha, Oli and Neven are all flying very well and we have given them a check mark. They all flew in at 8:00 Pm and each flew one at a time to the south end of the nest building nest ledge level for the night. Another day or 2 to look for and watch Jamie and we will scale back the watch to spot checks.
First photo is of the female Sasha on the antenna on the top of the nest building the second is of Sasha, Oli and Neven on the south end of the nest building at nest level.
Posted on June 15, 2022 11:07 pm
June 14, 2022 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Sally and I went to watch the fab four June 14th in the evening….and boy did we have fun! We drove up and spotted 3 immediately and when I went to park the car found #4!! Great. They all were facing in so it took a bit to ID. As #4 was the lowest, though still on top ledge of the nest building, we guessed that it was Nitro(yep). Zigzag was on the copper building on an outside ledge. Ace was on top of 225 and Yeager was on the upper roof of the nest building. Dad was on his covered corner even! Only mom was missing so we were waiting for her to bring food..so were the juvies lol! All was quiet for a bit-Sally’s friend joined us and enjoyed seeing everyone and she got a great show. Then Ace was off flying west, Yeager a minute later then Zigzag and Dad lol. Yep Nitro stayed behind. In a short time we heard the cries and here came Mom with a big bird, Ace on her tail and Yeager behind him. Ace did a flip and an exchange was done!! It was right over our heads–so cool-well done Ace! Now it was a pigeon so Ace lost altitude fast, as Sally said he discovered that flying with a pigeon is like joining a high level gym class lol. They were out of our sight but we ran-by the time we cleared the nest building, they were out of sight but Dad flew by and around. so we kept going and found Mom on the light standard on the west side of the nest building. Now either Ace dropped it or he was on the ground…yep I walked a little further and there he was in the parking lot, with Mom looking down on him. Dad was watching from across the street. He went at that prize I’m telling you lol. Now I have seen this before so I wasn’t worried. Nitro ledge hopped all the way around until he was right above Mom and Ace. Zigzag flew to 220 and was just below Nitro. Yeager was beside himself, he tried to fly to the light standard above Ace but missed, flew to the top of a tree, on a tiny branch, that didn’t work so then tried to land on the hydro pole one of the juvies from last year used. He just touched off that and then flew around and ended up on the hydro pole right at the cross walk near Sally!! Whew. There he stayed and watched. I stayed watching and taking pictures, watching him from the west and Sally took up a little ways to the east. She stopped a very nice man with his 2 dogs(Dad was alarm calling, getting louder as they got closer), advised him of what was going on and he wisely crossed the street and headed back the way he came. Mom finally came down and very carefully walked up to Ace-he wasn’t giving it up yet. She took some and they both ate, right on the ground!! Then Mom finally took it from him and beak fed him. The brothers really ramped it up. Nitro flew off and around 225 and ended up on the first level of 240, where he stayed for the night. Mom finally took the food, Ace jumped onto the railing and Mom took off with it, low over the parking lot, out over the street and the parking lot across the street, gaining altitude and then flew up down past 225 and then around 220 out of sight and had Yeager on her tail in hot pursuit! Ace took off low, right straight below the first level of 220 gaining altitude as he rounded the corner. We found him on the 1st level of 240. When Mom finished feeding Yeager, she went to the roof of 220 and Ace joined her there and got some more food. In the meantime, Zigzag flew off around and ended up high on the window ledge of 225(where he spent his first night of flying!) and remained there for the night. Yeager popped up on 240 and flew to join Zigzag for a short bit..landed pretty good beside him lol. But he didn’t stay long, flying over to say hi to Ace but ended up on another ledge of 225, where he stayed for the night. And Ace remained on the roof of 220.
As Sally said. Wow Ace! We hope we get some lovely flights for a little while, before Quest takes them away to wherever summer school is for her offspring! Thanks to Sally for her cliff notes!!
I know this is long but it just was so amazing to watch and so much fun!!
I stopped by tonight and found all four together on 225…Ace and Yeager on the tiptop and Zigzag with Nitro, who was lying down at first, on the lower roof. Watched a few flights and then headed home. All are doing great..as Sally said, hoping to see some more great flights before they head off!
Posted on June 15, 2022 10:49 pm
June 15, 2022 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Marion Nash Reports:
Aria and Indie’s chick Noah was seen at the Port Stanley Lagoons in March. Great to see he survived the first Migration. Photo taken by Jeff Vandewyngaerde
Posted on June 15, 2022 10:05 am
June 15, 2022 - Greater Toronto - Private Residential 1
Marion Nash Reports:
All was quiet on the home front yesterday.
Braveheart was seen flying around a bit and was “allowed” back in the nest by the girls.
Girls did a lot of wing flapping but no flying.
Thanks to Maggie Pawlak for the pictures.
Posted on June 15, 2022 9:56 am
June 14, 2022 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Marion Nash Reports:
Got a call today from Bloor Islington Place one of the fledglings was seen on the roof top of the center building and had been there for some time. I let Bruce know where he was and later in the afternoon he still had not jumped up the the retaining wall. Because it was so hot today in the sun Bruce decided to go up and catch him up and hold him over int the Security area in the air conditioning and release him tonight on the nest building. Tracy came out to do the release it was Bullet and he was napping and gave her a real hard time about disturbing his sleep. He refused to get out of the carrier on the roof on his own and she had to reach in grab him and haul his little feathered butt out. It was dark and he did not fly so all went well so hopefully the watchers will see him there on the retaining wall in the morning.
Posted on June 14, 2022 11:17 pm
June 14, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
This morning started out with a call from a lady at 1 Belsize who had a falcon with a yellow band on her balcony trapped behind the glass. Ok so that’s where Neven got to. We headed there first to rescue the him but by the time we got there he had already flown off her balcony she thought to her neighbors balcony. We contacted building security and the Superintendent who took us up to the suite but no one was home. We drove down the street far enough to see the balcony clearly and there was no bird there. We searched the area in a block radius around the building no luck Neven was no where to be seen.
Disappointed we headed to Canada Square and just got sat down on the watch when Mark sees a fledgling on the black glass building beside the nest building. He took out the spotting scope and after a while the fledgling moved up enough for Mark to get a band number it was C 29 Neven. The Brat had us searching half the morning for him and I guess while we were looking he was making his way home.
Jamie however has graduated to grade 1 and has jumped down from the nest ledge to the concrete platform 4 feet below we call the veranda and spent the day flapping and running the new playpen.
Since we were now missing Sasha and had not seen Oli for 3 days I decided to take another walk around to see if I could find them but again no luck.
Not long after Neven took another flight hooked around to young St and landed on a 8 floor building safe. About 10 minutes later Haven brought him another big pigeon as his reward. We watched him eat his fill and Haven flew in and to take what was left but Neven was not letting it go without a bit of a challenge. Haven won and took the leftovers over to Jamie on the nest.
Neven feeling ripped off tried to follow her and flew over to the nest but missed the ledge and fluttered down very low before he recovered and hooked around back to young St. Out of our site.
Mark walked over to Young and found him on another 8 floor level structure beside the in Horton’s and directly across the street from the nest building.
While Mark was there I heard some fledgling calls and looked up to see 2 fledglings high atop the RioCan building and could see Jamie in the nest and Mark had Neven on Young St so we now have all 4 fledglings home at last!!! It was 8:30 PM and we could see they were all settling down for the night and we took our cue and packed up and called it a night, what a nice way to end the day.
Sorry pictures are with cell phone so not great
Picture 1 Neven on Black Glass building, Picture 2 and 3 Neven on Young St above Tim Horton’s and Picture 4 Jamie on Playpen.
Posted on June 14, 2022 11:15 pm
June 13, 2022 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
When we arrived Neven was no where to be found , Sasha was still on the copper building roof top Oli is still MIA and Jamie is still on the nest. I did a walk around the area to look for Neven and Oli but still no luck I hope they are up high somewhere. There are hundreds balconies they could be on here. Late in the afternoon Sasha finally took flight and went to the condo behind the TVO building and landed on the window washers davit and there she stayed until dark. No flight from Jamie and no sight of Oli or Neven by the time we packed up and left.
1st shot Jamie on nest, second Sasha on copper building and the others Sasha on condo davit.
Posted on June 14, 2022 9:58 am
June 13, 2022 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
SPOT CHECK…DON MILLS : Spent a couple of hours watching the fab four this morning…Nitro was on the nest building roof! Everyone accounted for…and I then enjoyed a great show from the Ace, Yeager and Zigzag! Ace saw Dad on his favorite railing on the copper building, and being hangry, flew over and chased him off lol, and landed quit e nicely on the railing! He spent some time checking that out . He flew back to the nest building. Mom flew onto the copper building so Zigzag decided to go complain to her about the lack of food! Yeager joined in lol. Then Ace buzzed mom and then flew north heading for the forest! Mom was off like a shot! She headed him off and then a chase/play ensued…it was great. Tho Nitro did get one touch in(naughty..to your mother!!) But Quest just stayed ahead of him just enough…if he got too close, she kicked it up just enough to stay out of his reach but not enough to exhaust him. It was so fun ! Things quieted down(it was siesta time after all) .
Evening:
Arrived to find all 4 boys together on the upper roof of 220!! Eventually all left one at a time. Nitro to follow Zigzag to the top of 225 but missed, touching the window, recovering then landing on 240 2nd from the top. Zigzag followed and landed one level above Nitro. Ace joined Zigzag, then Yeager flew from 225 to rooftop above his brothers. He then tried to fly back to nest building, tried grabbing the flashing ,slipping and headed back to land practically on top of Ace lol!! And that is where they were when I left for the night! All safe and high.
Lots of fun..can’t wait to see what they are up to tomorrow!
Cathy
Posted on June 13, 2022 11:51 pm
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Mark Nash Reports:
May 2022
Toronto Downtown King Street Nest Site:
Over the past several weeks we have been monitoring the downtown Toronto 18 King Street nest as there has been a lot of activity with two territorial adult peregrines spending a lot of time on and off the upper ledges on the east elevations (in particular, on the old nest ledge) of the building.
With that said, despite all of our efforts and time spent in the streets in April and early May trying to get a better understanding of the peregrine’s activities, (and to identify them), it would still appear that there is no incubation happening. Sadly, we have not been able to identify the territorial adults that are active on this site.
We will continue to monitor the site when we can and endeavor to try and identify who the resident adults are …. But any assistance is most welcomed!
If you are down in the area and have use of a spotting scope, a camera, or if you have a good pair of binoculars and can help us identify the territorial peregrines that are hanging around the nest site,, we would love to know and give everyone an update… Please send us an e-mail (or a photo if you get one of a leg band number)..
Stay tuned…..
Posted on June 13, 2022 1:37 pm
