June 16, 2011 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
Apologies for the lack of updates, we’re spending early mornings and long days at the site. Last night when Frank left the site Hera was on a 5th floor balcony of the condo behind the nest site building and this morning he’s back on top of the world! He must have made an early morning flight and gained some unbelievable height to make it back home!!
Jupiter fledged at dusk and she’s flying around like a champ and has already been back and forth to both condo building rooftops and back on top of our building three times. Skye fledged at 6:15 as I arrived and is on a 15 floor window ledge, he had a great flight and was heading for the Centre Sunlife tower when Mom jumped under him and steered himaway from it as the window washing crew was heading out on the roof. He then turned and attempted to circle back towards the condos but lost a bit of height and grabbed onto to the window ledge where she has been for the past 2 hours. He’s only 2 floors below the roof though so hopefully he can make it back up. The ledge is a bit narrow though so it will be tricky turning himself around without losing his balance - he tried to flap through the window a few times but has quickly realized that isn’t going to work!
Both Jack and Angel are on site and clearing pigeons from the rooftops and encouraging all three to fly.
Posted on June 16, 2011 9:53 am
June 15, 2011 - Brampton - Courthouse
CPF Postmaster Reports:
June 15th - 2011
Twice today both the male and female were perched next to each other away from the nest; thus leaving it unprotected. Luckily neither time was more than 10 minutes and both times involved food. First the male was hanging out on the East side, new behaviour - is typically near the nest on the West side, but then the female showed, vocalized, and he slowly but surely made his way on to the nest. She then flew off after some pigeons and out of sight. Later in the day I found the male flying over the nest area then he settled on the roof. He was joined by the female, who had food with her. There they stood for a few minutes before the male spotted a Starling and went after it. The Starlings are constantly flying near the nest and never attracted any attention. This was a long time coming but the hunt was unsuccessful. Once the male returned from his hunt the female returned to the nest.
Winston
Posted on June 16, 2011 12:58 am
June 15, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
Do you ever get the feeling you are reliving the same day over and over. No new fledges. Sunshine is doing very well and has no shame returning to the nest ledge for potential meal hand outs. Early in the evening she had a meal delivered by Tiago, on the roof of 120. A little brown bat flew around the courtyard around the same time. Not a lot activity seen from the unfledged chicks. We decided to leave and check the King St nest site. On our return. Sunshine was sitting on an upper window ledge. This was confirmed by a camera check. She didn’t stay there long as food was delivered to the nest ledge and Sunshine flew off the window ledge and back into the nest ledge. That was about all the excitement for the evening.
We closed the watch for the night at 9p.m.
Posted on June 15, 2011 10:32 pm
June 15, 2011 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
The King St pair are growing fast. Not so long ago, they were little white fluffs and now they are just about raring to go. Lots of flapping and running on the ledge, testing their wings and getting a little lift. This evening another check of the nest site I found it eerily quiet. Adults were no in view and not in the usual spots. A camera check found both juveniles sitting in back of the ledge . I guess and adult came into view and the pair were flapping and running the ledge. They settled quickly. Back to the ground level, I didn’t see the adults in the area. Both have some white on them but they are maturing very quickly.
Posted on June 15, 2011 10:25 pm
June 15, 2011 - Port Colborne - ADM Mill
Doug Garbutt Reports:
I’m surprised these young didn’t fledge today. They are in such good shape & so frisky that I thought they would have tried. Lots of flapping, taunting each other also grooming until they have almost no downy feathers anywhere. It was a perfect day weatherwise for an attempt but neither of them took the opportunity. Perhaps they will try tommorrow (in the rain). I’ll keep you posted!
Posted on June 15, 2011 8:19 pm
June 14, 2011 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Was up at the Bridge to see Voltaire, Freddie, Lady Gaga and Spitfire. Freddie and Voltaire were sitting on side of Bridge together… Lady Gaga and Spitfire were in and out of nest box being very vocal and flapping the wings.. Freddie went into nest area than was going bar to bar under the bridge being very vocal… Boy Lady Gaga and Spitfire are growing real fast…
Collette Denkers
Posted on June 15, 2011 2:40 am
June 14, 2011 - Ottawa - Delta Ottawa City Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Good afternoon everyone,
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 — 12:10 p.m. — It is a breezy and humid afternoon in Ottawa. Connor is perched just above the 4th window from the SW corner of the Delta City Ottawa Centre hotel. He is looking towards the nest area and the eastern part of the city.
Take care and keep smiling!
Ciao,
N. McKenna
Posted on June 15, 2011 2:26 am
June 14, 2011 - Burlington - Lift Bridge
Mark Nash Reports:
PM watch report -Tuesday June 14th - 2011
It was a crazy day in Burlington today full of activity on and off all day. There was so much happening throughout the day that my head is spinning.
The highlights this evening had Lady Lamont completing several good strong short flights from tower to tower roofs, them to the hydro tower for the first time as she tried to get closer to mom.
With several not so good landings and just as many aborted landings unable to get the altitude that she wanted, she was forced to fly around back where she came from only to land on a different part of the tower roofs. Finally she was able to make it back to the nest box where she was greeted with a very excited sister (Lady Nelson). The two siblings touched beaks for several minutes that could only be described as a true sign of affection between the two. A very heart warming moment indeed!
Throughout the later afternoon and evening, the resident adult male McKenzie was in “warp-drive” hunting mode with more energy that I have ever seen in my 17 plus years on the watch!
In addition to the incredible energy that this little guy demonstrated throughout most of the afternoon and evening, he has an affection for the local pigeon population!! He made several pigeon kills that were some of most outstanding stoops and pursuits, catching all that he went after with a determination and agility that I have never seen before. He never ran out of gas!!
If that were not enough to take your breath away - (and it did), we were all caught up in running across the parking lot on one of his successful pigeon hunts screaming “Go Daddy GO”,, as he struggled to hold his altitude making carrying the huge pigeon, while completed circle after circle and several figure-eights while trying to hold on and carrying these huge squirming live pigeons that he had in his clutches while trying to fly in dead air!!
On one occasion he was chased and mobbed by gulls that were in hot pursuit trying to take the pigeon away from him and was almost grounded in the water as he tried to gain some altitude as he flew up the canal past our watch position towards the Hamilton harbour!
Unlike the past weeks where the pair have been hunting in tandem on every other hunt, McKenzie hunted solo all day long today with his mate showing little to no interest at all in hunting.
Another unusual and very strange happening this year, is that both adults seemed to have absolutely no interests in the actual fledgling of their young. When Lady Lamont took her flights today, neither of the adults even looked sideways at her during the flights, let alone accompanied her in any of her flights. Very strange indeed!!!!! The resident adult female didn’t bring a single scrap of food to the young and she spent most of the day roosting on the hydro tower showing very little interest at all to all the happenings going on. And there were allot of happenings throughout the day!!!
McKenzie on the other hand, was in hyper-drive all day long right up until darkness when we closed down the watch for the evening.
By darkness, both of the girls had retired to the back of the nest box, with McKenzie roosting on one of the cables only several feet from the nest box. Mom was on the hydro tower, once again with her back to the nest box which has been her posture and behaviour for the most parts throughout the entire day!.
As I write this observation report, I can’t help but chuckle, as it would have almost appeared that the two adults must have had wicked knock out argument at some point during our absence over the evening and were they have been ignoring each other all day still not speaking to one another! They didn’t interact with each other at all today!
Hmmmmmm??????
Stay tuned…….
Posted on June 15, 2011 2:10 am
June 14, 2011 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Tracy Simpson Reports:
As told by Big Frank;
Kathy saw the fledge at 7:00am this morning of Hera and the flight was actually quite strong. This initial flight took the bird over to the center tower where he spent the better part of the day. Back on the ledge, there was a great deal of pre-flight exercise with lots of wing flapping and a feeding at 12:00pm by Jack. An hour later, Jack went over to the center tower to buzz the young Hera in the hopes of instigating another flight but only resulted in a great deal of screaming by the juvenile and an appearance on the retaining wall. A few minutes later Angel flew by with food trying to tease Hera into the air and when that didn’ t have the desired effect, she took the food to the nest ledge and fed Jupiter and Skye. The rest of the day was spent napping and flapping until at 8:23pm Jack entered the ledge with a small food package that Jupiter took off with and self fed. Hera flew a few minutes later from the center tower to the Kingsway on the Park tower and landed on a window ledge. He was unable to settle there and took another flight that had him clinging onto a window frame of the nest tower that was equally uncomfortable. After a short loop over Bloor street Hera finally ended up on the canopy over the entrance to 3250 Bloor street where he spent the rest of the night running the ledge to the west. Tracy arrived on site as the sun was setting and wee Hera was sitting on the far western corner of the lower elevation looking for some direction as to “what now”?! He looked as though he might stay and nap there for the night when he was awakened by activity below him on the street. The initial inspection came from a police cruiser that stopped to see what Tracy was up to with that set of binoculars and followed quickly by an ambulance rushing by with sirens blaring. On this lower elevation it is a little to close for Hera’s comfort and we thought that he was going to take off but instead settled down for a nap. The best solution for Tracy and I was to also settle down for dinner on the patio across the street and hope that the fledge didn’t happen in the middle of bite! At 11:16pm, Hera is still at the western corner of the low wall and we are still on the patio sharing stories of peregrines with the constituents. Cheers!
Posted on June 14, 2011 11:40 pm
June 14, 2011 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Linda Woods Reports:
Sunshine returns to the nest ledge. What a Flyer! She fooled me. I thought it was an adult taking food to the ledge. She spent most of the day on the higher elevation of 120 Adelaide. At dinner time I did a check, she was still there on the east side of this roof top. After not seeing much activity, I did another check, she was gone. What I thought was food going into the ledge was actually Sunshine returning. Good flyer. I hope she keeps it up. She stayed there for the remainder of the evening and we closed the watch for the night at 9:00p.m. They appeared to be down for the night. All was quiet This image sent to us from the Rochester Crew viewing the webcam
Posted on June 14, 2011 10:12 pm
