June 03, 2019 - Etobicoke - William Osler
Marion Nash Reports:
Unfortunately we were not able to safely extract the chicks from the ledge for banding today. Mom had brought in food and coaxed the chicks out of the nest and down the ledge to be fed. They were just too far down the ledge for us to reach and the slanted ledge is not safe for us to climb out onto to grab them.
We will have to band chicks if and when they come to ground at fledge time.
Posted on June 5, 2019 8:44 am
June 04, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
more boys than girls this year. there were 3 boys and 1 girl this year.
Thanks to the kind folks at CANFAR for sharing their office space and allowing us to band the chicks in their board room and the building management and security at Canada Square for arranging everything for us and for the great guys from Solar Window washing who extracted the chicks from the ledge.
Haven was her usual feisty self defending the nest while we were banding the chicks and they guys from Solar did a great job keeping her distracted.
Here are then names of the new chicks.
Koji male band R over 17.
Screaming Legals male band 99 over Y.
Spicy P male band 00 over AW.
Raptorette female band Z over 28.
Posted on June 5, 2019 8:38 am
June 04, 2019 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Marion Nash Reports:
We have 3 boy and 1 Girl
Thanks to Cathy Smith and Sky Reach Window Washing for extracting the chicks from the nest and for taking the wrath of Moma falcon while we band.
We had to rebook the banding to June 4th because of of an error in communication with the swing stage folks but thanks to Sky reach who quickly came this morning at 10:00 Am and set up the stage we were able to get the banding done today.
the chicks were in good health and very vocal. Management staff from the Bloor Islington Place brought out a ballot box so that guests watching the banding could name the chicks and I drew the 4 names.
Avro male band 01 over AW.
Griffon male band 02 over AW.
Aries male band 03 over AW .
Bliss ( Bloor/Islington) female band Z over 29.
Building management has been working hard to try to find the internet issue with the camera and have had both Bell and Rogers in to try to find the connection and issue but so far no luck. We discussed with them starting from scratch with a new internet line and connection so we hope we can get the camera up and running again soon.
Posted on June 5, 2019 8:29 am
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Cathy Kerr Reports:
Lucie reports:
BANDING - Sheraton Centre, June 4
Two boys for this site which has an unbanded adult female and the adult male is thought to be STORMIN.
Welcome BONVOY (C/59, blue band, 580g, 21 days old) and QUINN (D/62, red band, 590g, 22 days old)
Both names are meaningful as Bonvoy is the name of Marriott’s new loyalty program, and Quinn is named after Quinn’s Steakhouse and Grill in the hotel.
Posted on June 4, 2019 10:09 pm
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Marilyn Weller Reports:
Banding will be done on Saturday, June 8th at 1:00 pm at the Ambassador Bridge nest site. Come and join us if you can.
Posted on June 2, 2019 12:34 pm
May 31, 2019 - Oshawa - Lakeridge Hospital
Marion Nash Reports:
May 30th 2019
Banding day was a success and Lakeridge has 3 healthy chicks. We would like to thank the staff and management for making the banding possible and the support of Oshawa’s peregrine family.
Male named Clifton banded C over 55
Male named Gunner banded C over 56
Female named Fiona banded 81 over X
The chicks are 24 days old and should be fledging within the next 2 weeks.
Posted on May 31, 2019 10:47 am
May 30, 2019 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
It was a great banding day at Don Mills!! Here is Lucie’s report and pics:
Each name bears special meaning to those who selected them.
Welcome DOHA (f, Z/70, 985g, 26 days, red tape), RZLBD (m, C/57, 715g, 26 days, yellow tape), MATRIX (m, C/58, 720g, 25 days, green tape), BOBAK (f, Z/71, 965g, 25 days, blue tape)
We extend a huge thank you to Reza Aliabadi, who invited us to do the banding in his office. The nest ledge is located outside his window and he gets the best view of this family! Since moving in last year, he has been watching Quest, Mystery guy, and their kids, and you can follow his photos on instagram: khatoon_falcon
It was a pleasure to meet him, his staff and a couple of his clients, who absolutely adore the peregrines and were so excited to be a part of this event!
The first photo (after our matriarch) is Reza and RZLBD (nicknamed Rzee). He is named after Reza’s boutique art and architecture practice: Atelier RZLBD
We wish our eyases safe and successful fledges 
<3 Cheers, Lucie 
Posted on May 31, 2019 8:45 am
May 29, 2019 - Kitchener - CTV-Bell Media Tower
Marion Nash Reports:
May 28th 2019
3 healthy chicks banded yesterday 1 girl and 2 boys. We had 2 new climbers being trained by our long time volunteer John Miller who all climber the tower to extract the chicks. As usual the adults were very protective and swooped and dove on the tower yelling at the human invaders. The extraction went very well and took very little time job well done guys!
There were 3 chicks 2 boys and 1 girl all healthy and good weights. you can view the CTV news story at this link https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1693661
the female was named by the Kitchener fledge watch team Hemera banded Z over 41 she weighed 853 grams. ( red tape on silver band)
the first male was named by CTV Kawhi for those Raptor fans. Hs band number is W over 94 and he weighed 608 grams. ( blue tape on silver band)
the second male again named by the Kitchener team was named Jupiter band number W over 95 weighed in at 609 grams. ( Green tape on silver band)
The colored tape on the silver bands helps during the fledge watch as we can’t always see the band numbers at a distance.
Thanks to everyone at CTV for making this banding happen and for being wonderful nest site hosts, Anne Yagi our volunteer master bander and for all the Kitchener fledge watch team members who came out in support and who continue to help these little ones survive the fledge period, without their help most would not survive. finally a big thank you to our climbers who face the wrath of adult peregrine falcons and remain on the tower during the banding distracting them.
Here are a few photos please stay tuned for the fledge watch stories from Kitchener!
Posted on May 29, 2019 11:35 am
May 28, 2019 - Toronto - Don Mills and Eglinton - Amexon
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Well am I glad I was wrong!!! Its very late but Jenna is down on a second clutch!! She wouldn’t budge, as usual, so don’t know how many eggs yet. Hoping for the best for these two this time around! Stay tuned…….
Posted on May 28, 2019 8:51 pm
May 26, 2019 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
Update from Don Mills : Sally was by on the weekend and she reports:
It was quite warm, and Quest had her back to the road, wings out slightly. One of the eyas came out to the front to have a peek out but pretty quiet for a while.
A while later, Mystery brought food and the chicks got a feed. Then pretty quiet again, except for the one (pretty big! A female?) who kept popping up to the front of the nest box, wing flaps and then back in to join her/his siblings who were pretty inactive.
Both Quest and the chick had their mouths open much of the time and by then the sun was hitting the nest box. I agree, the warmer weather has arrived suddenly!
I decided to wander down from the parking arcade to get some shade myself. As I heard an incessant alarm call from north east, I saw about 20 cyclists come up Duncan Mill Rd out of the ravine trail. I chuckled at the timing thinking: surely cyclists in 80s neon colours are not rifling a few falcon feathers…. The cyclists went by, and then I heard the alarm call again. I looked to see where it was coming from (somewhere above 240 Duncan Mill building), then heard another call from the west, saw Mystery flying deliberately to where I’d heard the other call, quickly confirmed Quest still on the nest ledge, but looking over in the same westerly direction, and then spotted the 3rd peregrine. Uh oh! Larger than Mystery. Maybe the female who got chased away from the ICIC nest? Hmmm…who knows, but Mystery called until the intruder had flown away. He circled for quite some time then disappeared, probably to a spot with a 360 view.
Quest remained unmoved from her spot, back to the street, facing into the nest.
Ciao for now
Sally
Thanks to Sally for the great report and pictures! Banding this week…
Posted on May 28, 2019 8:37 pm
