June 29, 2011 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
After leaving the Sheraton watch, I did a spot check on the King St nest site. Both adults were sitting on Dundee Place, I did not see either juvenile. Crossing Church St at King St, I head the distinct sound of juveniles screaming. Kenya was chasing Sakura directly above me in the parking lot at King and Church. A good chase with locking talons. Kenya kept pushing Sakura. ‘They circled and played and then eventually broke off and flew back to the roof of 18 King. All that noise drew attention to them, the pedestrians thought they were gulls, but I knew better and enjoyed watching them.
Posted on June 29, 2011 9:46 pm
June 29, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
Annie was on site when I arrived, she had seen two juvies, but all was quiet for a long time. I went up to 43 and did not see any birds in view at all. Annie and I watched the film crew do their thing. At 7p.m. back up to the 43 where Annie and I saw Cinnamon playing in puddle of water on the very top of 120 Adelaide. Cinnamon also took this time to have a drink as well. Adult on the north east corner of 130 Adelaide keeping watch. Back down to street level. If we had not seen any other peregrine activity, we were going to call it a night early since the watch started on June 8th. At 8p.m., I went up to 43rd for a last head count and Annie ( Thanks Annie) headed home.
Of course, Cinnamon had huddled next to the stove pipe on the top of 120, but was getting active. He scooted across the roof top and flew off attempting to land on the upper 130. Missed the landing and recovered nicely flying around 130 and back to the top of 130. At this time a second juvie flew in front of the club lounge windows and it appeared to head to the nest. Cinnamon took off from 130 and flew to the top of the Sheraton above the “R”. Back to ground level, Cinnamon took off again and over to the top of 130.
He is maintaining his height, and recovering well from aborted landings. The adults are attending and providing food. Sunshine and Kate were scarce this evening and have been off for most of the afternoon and evening.
At this time, and with the agreement of Mark Nash that we are good to cut back on the watch and do spot checks only.
Thanks, Harry, Zoe, Annie, Janine, Vanessa, Marion, Sharon, for the long hours for this unusual extended watch.
Posted on June 29, 2011 9:40 pm
June 29, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Harry Crawford Reports:
At 7:30am, Cinnamon was on the old portion of the Bell building and
Kate was on the penthouse of 120 Adelaide. As I was moving through
the courtyard, Sunshine came screaming in from the south west and
disappeared from view. From 23 at 9am, Cinnamon was feeding on the
south west corner of the roof area of the National Bank at York and
Adelaide. Just to his west was Rhea Mae, keeping a sister [to her
west] from grabbing the food. The feeding took about 20 minutes and
then Cinnamon took off. Rhea Mae went over and started to feed on
the left-overs. I went down to street level and by the time I got
there, the sister was feeding on the scraps.
Linda arrived and we went up to 23 only to find no birds in view.
We then went to King St. to see the south views of the nearby
buildings - still nothing in view. I think the birds are moving
around more and could also be trying to get out of the wind [Zoe] as
it was quite strong.
Posted on June 29, 2011 1:44 pm
June 29, 2011 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
Last evening we stopped by the Bridge again to check out our family of four, they were busy eating and flying around.
This morning, Thank You to Ted who had been there since 6 A.M. who informed us that he saw a difference this morning in that they were flying around together for about 45 minutes. Freddie and Voltaire were hanging around making sure that Spitfire and Lady Gaga were doing good. No feeding had been done yet.
Gwen & Dennis Site Co-ordinators for CPF
Posted on June 29, 2011 7:55 am
June 28, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
Lots of shuffling around by Kate and Cinnamon, but the end of day, we weren’t sure who we were watching closely. I couldn’t get a band colour to Identify. One bird was on the Phoenix building and was being watched closely by Annie when I arrived. Janine joined us shortly afterwards. This bird flew over to the lower 130 south side and ran the east side of this area before taking off again. It was on Lombard Place for a short time before taking flight again and back to lower 130. Off again and it ended up on the low roof of south east corner of Richmond and York just north of the Keg. Annie and Janine stayed on the ground, while I headed for the 43rd. This bird took off again and headed south along York St and we lost sight of it. We finally found it on the east side of the DBRS building. At this time I took the opportunity to scan for the other two. At dark we had a juvenile on the north east lower 120 Adelaide, lying down, as it was earlier. Sunshine on the north east corner of 130 Adelaide and one on the DBRS building. Apparently, filming will resume tomorrow in and around this direct area. Not sure if they are filming again on the roof areas, like they were over the weekend. The film shoot notice that went around the neighbourhood did not indicate that.
We only saw one food drop, as we spent a lot of time on the south side of 120 and 130. Not sure who got a share of this meal
Posted on June 28, 2011 9:59 pm
June 28, 2011 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
I have not had a chance to get out to the mill for the last 2 days so I was happy to be able to see the 2 young ones putting on quite an air show. The winds were very strong here all day long & when I got down to the lake they were even stronger which made great conditions for the new flyers. They took advantage by kiting around the sky hardly having to flap their wings at all. They were also tormenting the odd seagull or pigeon. In fact, as I watched Olivia through binoculars I noticed she was coming right at me and seemed to be getting rather close. I took my binocs away from my face just in time to see her stoop about 30 feet above me. All the time, Mom was watching from afar. I tried to get some pics but didn’t have any luck. I’ll try again tomorrow.
Posted on June 28, 2011 9:03 pm
June 28, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Harry Crawford Reports:
When I arrived on site, I found that both Cinnamon and Kate had
moved from their last reported location last evening. I couldn’t
see Cinnamon but Kate was on the upper railing of the old Bell
building. One adult was visible. By 8am, Cinnamon joined Kate on
the Bell building and both adults were on the north side of 130
Victoria. Cinnamon is flying well. Cinnamon is flying very well.
He made about five [about a block or more in length] flights,
maintaining height and landing well. At one point, with Linda
watching from 43, he joined Sunshine for some flying.
Kate made about three flights, simply to relocate to different areas
of the Bell building. She had no difficulty but these were not
challenging flights. I would like to see her do some distance
flying. Hopefully she will do so later today.
Posted on June 28, 2011 1:56 pm
June 28, 2011 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
Dennis Patrick Reports:
Yesterday we were there three times to check on Lady Gaga and Spitfire, both of them doing very well. Last night after the Fireworks were over we drove down to check and make sure everyone was doing good. At that point we could only see Freddie sitting on top of the nest tray, the others must have been hunkered down for the night. This morning on our way to the Shop we stopped by again, Spitfire was sitting on the West side of the abudment while Lady Gaga was sitting on the South of the abudment, Freddie brought her in a food package and she was doing really good on ripping it apart.
Thank You to Collette, Bess and Ted, without your watchful eyes we could not do this alone. If I’m missing anyone that were there yesterday please forgive me.
Gwen & Dennis Site Co-ordinators for CPF
Posted on June 28, 2011 9:19 am
June 27, 2011 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Canada Square report Monday June 27th 2011
Bruce was on the beat early again today and after a reasonably uneventful morning where the two fledged juveniles flew distances *there and back* he was brought to his feet, literally, in a hurry at 1:00 p.m.
Young Chester flew today. Bruce happened to look up at 1:00 p.m. to see two birds in the air, one smaller than the other and thought *mom and juvenile*. They flew south over the cinema building and car park area and the larger one came back. Bruce checked to *make sure it was the mom* and was very surprised to discover it was a juvenile. Then the question became *who was the smaller peregrine?*
Bruce set out to check the identity. He checked the ledge from the ground and did not see Chester so he went up to the ledge and looked out only to find no bird on the ledge!!! He did all of the parking lots and areas he could get onto, without seeing the little chap.
Yep Chester had flown. I had a call a little after 1:00 p.m. to say that he had gone. I met Bruce and he set off on a search for Chester. At that point there was no sign of him and we could not see the adults anywhere. Bruce did another thorough search at 2.00 p.m. and found a youngster on the SE corner ledge of Canada Square. We did not see three juveniles between us, at the same time, any time after that.
On Bruce’s many walkabouts he sometimes saw one or both adults sitting on the Condo building, or flying over or near the Canada Square building. Later on when we saw two turkey vultures we had hoped they would bring out the adults from somewhere. However, they were quite high so perhaps not considered a threat and the adults stayed hidden from us.
For a while we had two juveniles on the antenna on top of Canada Square and as I had the scope up we could see their beautiful colours so well. We also determined for sure that who we had were Luke and Buzz. At one point when they were together we thought the one looked smaller than the other and we hoped it was Chester. They each flew off at different times from the antenna.
I returned for the second time after a trip home to find one adult and one juvenile on the ledge north of the nest. Maggie, one of our daily visitors, noticed that the female, who had brought in the food, was actually feeding the juvenile. This was the first time we had seen that! It was normal for us to see her feeding them on the nest ledge but not once they had left.
At one point we had four peregrines in the same area but no Chester. There were two juveniles on the Canada Square nest ledge and the two adults on the railing, one floor below. The female even went onto that lower balcony floor for a few minutes. The adults then flew off. Both juveniles did more flying today and one of them took off from the ledge, flew over Yonge and Eglinton, slightly north-ish and may have been heading for Baffin Island before the female flew in and turned him to fly south over the Bell building, across Eglinton where she brought him down on a white building with a number of chimney-like things on top. The juvenile hit one of those and fluttered from view. The female appeared unconcerned and continued flying back our way. A few minutes later we spotted him on the side of that building looking towards us. Later on he flew back. It was a lengthy flight, over Canada Square, over the black building just south of that and then up Duplex Ave to the apartment building at 411 where he landed on the stairwell roof. After a ten minute break he flew again and circled over the vacant TTC lot and then onto the smaller of the antennae on the Canada Square building. He really is flying well. After five minutes he flew north up Yonge street and out of sight. Shortly thereafter the second juvenile also flew up Yonge street.
We saw the female fly around the Canada Square building and just saw her land on the roof on the east side.
Later on the male flew in to the ledge on the north side of Canada Square with a food package! He was very surprised that no-one flapped and rushed him for it! He even called a number of times without any response. So he picked up the food and flew to the antenna on the TVO building where he made a meal of it.
Eventually the female flew north up Yonge and a while later the male did the same. Bruce made his last round of the area and was unable to find where Chester was bedded down for the night. So we left.
Lyn
Posted on June 28, 2011 8:52 am
June 27, 2011 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
After closing the Sheraton Watch this evening, walking past the King Edward Hotel, I could hear two juvies screaming. I looked up and could clearly see the silhouette of the birds on a nearby roof edge.
Posted on June 27, 2011 10:27 pm
