Early morning visit and the chicks had just been fed, rather stuffed. You can see the crop bulging from the chest area. They appear to be healthy and are active and becoming more mobile. I’m sure it won’t be long before the other two hop out of the nest tray and join the sibling.
Linda captured some great high quality video of the Toronto Sheraton peregrine chicks feeding yesterday. We hope gather enough support through donations to upgrade the nest camera at the Sheraton Centre to give us a high quality feed. Until then, we have dedicated volunteers capturing incredible video like the one below.
What a beautiful day, and finally the little ones are little more active today. Myself and other volunteer were observing this morning and we believe that we may have two females in this trio. We’ll have to wait and see at the Banding on May 28th.
We watched as the chicks interacted with each other. One appeared to be trying to feed the other until it had difficulty with the leftovers in the nest tray. There wasn’t any meat on those bones for any of them. Rhea is very attentive and watches every move. When the little climbed out of the box, Rhea was there to make sure it didn’t go out of bounds. I could sit for hours and watch this family. Please see my photos.
The 4 eggs that were once here (for a second time this year) are now only 1. Not sure how the 1st one went missing but I saw the female consume the 2nd one that went missing. This is way too wierd for me to comprehend, but I’m hoping she must have known that the egg she ate was not fertilized because when she ate it, the yoke & white were clearly visible. I think if it was a viable egg that there would have been an embryo or something solid in the egg. So to this point, she has 1 egg left & is on it constantly. We are hoping that this egg will eventually hatch. Never a dull moment here in Port Colborne! Mostly frustrating ones.
We have finally been able to get a decent photo of the hatchlings during a shift change as the resident adult female took a brake from her brooding activities.
Very cute indeed!
The banding of the new Toronto Sheraton Peregrines has been scheduled for 10am on Friday May 28th. It is to take place on the 43rd floor, in the Pinnacle room. The event is exciting, and everyone is welcome. You will see the this years new peregrine chicks banded, named and learn a bit more about Peregrines in the process.
Come see the new chicks up close before they learn to fly! (photo from last years banding)
Matt.
We’ve been 98% sure we had three chicks and have been struggling to be able to see for that last 2% to make us 100% sure that we had three chicks hatched. Well tonight Lou, Ken, you were right as we watched they all lined up along the nest ledge and waved!!!! Special thanks to Nicko who stuck with us in the rain and helped us 100%confirm the third hatch!! No doubt we have three chicks and they are growing like weeds!!!! They are getting huge. We should have some really good pictures over the next few days.
The maturity and confidence and team work of Voltaire and Freddie is light years ahead of last year!!! We are gased at the possibilities!!
Dennis and Gwenster and the whole Windsor Falcon Watch Team.
I just happened to check the King Street ledge via the web cam and caught both adults with the two chicks. Quite a lovely family photo.
Lunch at the Sheraton…the babies are getting HUGE!
Eileen
Based on the good news that we have received, we can confirm without any doubt that there has been a hatch of the first hatchling on or about May 8th.
Congratulations Burlington!