June 18, 2010 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
Zera, the young female continues to do well. She is staying up and making short flights from roof to roof in the immediate area. This evening she found a spot on a near by roof top, at nest ledge level, where she will overnight.
Malik was flying with one of the adults earlier this evening. He did a couple of circuits around the nest area and then over to the King Edward Hotel. He sat there for the remainder of the evening. Food was delivered but he didn’t seem to interested to eat. He settled in for the night, with no additional.
Posted on June 18, 2010 9:52 pm
June 18, 2010 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Mark Nash Reports:
Little Joe was finally flushed from the tree where he spent the night by a group of very angry crows. Sadly, not a very strong flight at all and after three more collisions with the glass at MEC 4 and MEC 1, he finally ran out of steam and again came to the ground, this time very hard indeed!. Thank goodness that both Bruce who was on hand and a huge thank you to MEC security for actually being able to catch him up and do the rescue. He was placed in the rescue box by Bruce and keep cool in the fire room until my arrival from the banding event at the Holcim cement plant in Mississauga that took place this morning.
Further examination of little Joe after a much needed cool down and his willingness to accept water, it would appear that he has not sustained any life threatening injuries ans is no worse for wear. Exhausted and simply out of gas, but still very feisty with lots of attitude. That’s good news indeed!!!.
He will be held over for another few hours so he can be examined further prior to a green light for his release back to the nest building. With all three of his siblings still on the nest ledge and yet to fledge themselves, Little Joe will be released back to the upper roof top area under the cover of darkness as usual, so his siblings will not be scared themselves with our presence, and so that Little Joe will not be forced into a panic flight with our presence during his release.
Pictures courtesy of Marco.
Stay tuned……
Posted on June 18, 2010 5:02 pm
- Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Frank Butson Reports:
It seems everyone else has flyers. Today the 3 boys were left alone alot. Mom stayed just out of their site. Blackberry,DotCa and Mercedes were flapping abit more today,gaining wing strength. All day they were not fed,prompting alot of screaming every time an adult was in view. Angel did many touch and goes trying to urge the boys into flight but she got no takers. Finally at 820pm they were fed a big meal. This settled them down for the night. These guys are still being babied by Angel. She was beak to beak feeding them again today.
Posted on June 17, 2010 10:52 pm
June 17, 2010 - Toronto - King Street
Linda Woods Reports:
Zera was later located by the afternoon shift of volunteers. She came off the press building and made her way to the mezzanine level of the building north of the press building. After that she then made her way over to roof on the corner of Toronto and King St. When I came on shift I had not seen her at all. A little concerned, Bruce and I started a wide sight line scan of the roof tops. I check the King Edward Hotel and found her there. She had food delivered around 7:30p.m.This is where she will over night.
Malik , what a flyer! He is making good progress with his landings, so much so that we have to really watch to make sure it’s not an adult. Good for him!
He will also overnight in the same area as previous.
Posted on June 17, 2010 10:11 pm
June 17, 2010 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Mark Nash Reports:
Well, its 9:40 pm and all is well, sort of. Joe, the little male that was the first to fledge is still hanging high in a tree where he ended up after his first flight. Both parents brought in food to the three remaining juveniles still on the nest ledge and are stuffed with food and not very active all this evening. Food was brought in at 6:19pm, 7:00pm, and 8:10pm and all three juveniles at the nest box ate their share without much squabbling. At darkness, Joe remains very quiet and almost motionless. Fingers crossed that he stays put until we can get here in the morning, as it is very unlikely that he will be able to get out of the tress and get any altitude given how close he is to the ground.
Stay tuned…….
Posted on June 17, 2010 9:49 pm
June 17, 2010 - Etobicoke - William Osler
Tracy Simpson Reports:
I stopped in at 2:00pm this afternoon to check on the incubation progress of our unknown adult female at the hospital. Initial observations about this site had two eggs back in March that disappeared after a territorial battle between females. At last observation near the beginning of May saw an empty nest tray and no serious courting amongst the adullt pair. As of June 1st, we have 3 confirmed eggs in the tray all thanks to the folks at William Osler that continue to offer unwavering support for the nesting pair.
Today’s check of the nest tray through the magic peep hole revealed a sleepy female nestled down on top of her developing eggs. Considering that hard incubation began at the very least on June 1st, that would put our progress at a minimum of 17 days as of today. Stay tuned as we continue to check the progress of this female and attempt to identify our new girl on site.
Posted on June 17, 2010 6:58 pm
June 17, 2010 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Mark Nash Reports:
Hot, humid and almost unbearable with no escape from the sun, it was chaos at MEC this afternoon! Just when you least expect it, when all four of the hatchlings were laying down and moving each of their positions to avoid the boiling sun, with absolutely no warning, at 3:30 pm, one of the juveniles leaped into the air and took flight,,, well sort of.
Two attempts to gain altitude and several soft bumps on the windows of MEC # 2, the fledgling lost altitude and sailed across the Robert Spec Parkway making one final collision with the windows at MEC # 4 and finally down to the sidewalk at the east end of the building.
Scambling to his rescue, and just at my arrival, he took flight again flying just over the tops of cars in to the rear parking lot banging several car antennas and finally flew over the waist high retaining wall at the south end of the parking lot. He collided again, but this time with the soft tree branches amongst the leaves.
Tracy finally arrived and was able to back me up and keep an eye on this first fledgling while I returned to my spotting position to watch the nest ledge with the other three juveniles.
After several hours of viewing at him with the scope and bins, Tracy was finally able to see the marker tape on his USFW band and he has been identified as the juvenile named “JOE”- with the Green marker tape!
Posted on June 17, 2010 5:56 pm
June 17, 2010 - Toronto - King Street
Harry Crawford Reports:
Zera has fledged! The first flight likely took place at first light
this morning. Jan arrived on site at 6:30am and Zera was not on the
nest ledge. After considerable searching, she found Zera on a
satellite dish on the roof of 34 King West, the press building.
Later, she appeared to drop to the roof and out of view. I did a
ground and building search of the surrounding area to no avail.
Paul got access to the roof of 1 Toronto and also couldn’t see
anything. We did hear vocalising and it couldn’t have been from her
brother. Both adults remained in the area, particularly
around the nest building. Hopefully, the volunteers will figure
out what gives this afternoon.
Posted on June 17, 2010 3:08 pm
June 17, 2010 - Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel
Sarah Washington Reports:
Well Peter took his first flight finally yesterday. Madame X was right with him as he did a nice strong flight. He ended up on a close building to the Sheraton Hotel, and stayed overnight.
This morning he took another small flight. This time he landed lower than Falconwatchers like, so we shall see what the day brings.
The siblings are doing lots of flapping and little flights along the ledge, they will be off soon!
Chedoke is still behind in his development. He is eating and trying out his wings…so we have our fingers crossed!
Posted on June 17, 2010 1:24 pm
June 17, 2010 - Toronto - King Street
Mark Nash Reports:
Hello all
Just a short note to let you know that we have been able to confirm the identity of the Resident adult female at the 18 king Street nest site. With thanks to Emma of the OMNR who was up in the swing stage extracting the young hatchlings from the ledge for the banding, she was able to snap some great shots of the resident adult female. Sadly, the resident adult male never came close enough to even get an eyeball of his bands,, (but he is banded) with a Black over Green band so she believes.
The adult female is non-other than the same female that produced at this site last year and dawns a Black over Red band,,, Black B over Red D,, (both are rotated 90 degrees to the left) as the photos indicate. She was named “Erin”, and was produced in 1998 at the Froedtert Malt nest site in Milwaukee Wisconsin USA. Erin also has one of the more un-usual purple / pinkish coloured USFW band,, (not silver). I have attached the photos.
This information confirms that she is a senior lady for sure at 12 years old!
The mystery still remains as to the “WHO” the resident male is this year????
Sincerely
Mark Nash
CPF
Posted on June 17, 2010 12:59 pm
