Toronto watch 6-27-12
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Joyce and I met Kathy,Carol,Dana and Lisa at the William Osler Hospital in Toronto,Ontario Canada yesterday for the banding of Chessie and Hurricanes babies. There was 1 male and 1 female-no names yet as they are having a contest to name them.
Lisa got to hold one of them as it got banded with it’s new bling. I always feel honored to attend one of these events with the good folks from the Canadian Peregrine Foundation. We’ve all become good friends through our love for the falcons. I’d like to thank Joyce for taking me to so many events in Canada and thanks to Mark and Marion Nash for allowing us to attend and be part of their bandings. Truly an honor to know people with such passion for the welfare of Peregrine Falcons.
Onward we went to the Yellow Pages site where Linn and Reuben reside with their 3 boys. They have all fledged successfully and we saw them all hanging out on the building with mom and dad and occasionally flying around.
Reuben 
Linn
Last stop before we left Canada was the Don Mills site where our girl Quest and Kendal are raising their brood of 3. They too have fledged successfully as we were treated to seeing the entire family. Kendal was on the corner of the building to the right of the nesting building preening and basically acting like nothing was going on. On the same ledge near the middle Quest had her hands full feeding her noisy 3 kids. After the meal was done she got outta there and perched further down on the ledge.
We left the family all together on that ledge – Kendal at one end,babies in the middle and Quest on the other side. A picture perfect ending to the day that sent us all home smiling! 🙂
I have provided links for my photo album and several videos below. Just click on them and away you go
http://pix.kg/p/980542916213%3A327608167/scl
June 28th, 2012 at 7:08 PM
Great report, pics and videos MAK. They all look great and doing well, let’s keep it that way. I can’t believe how visible Quest’s harness is. Thanks, glad you all had a good time.
June 28th, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Great slide show and videos MAK, thanks!
June 28th, 2012 at 7:46 PM
MAK its Kendel not Rueben 🙂
I saw Quests harness I was wondering if maybe its getting looser? I didn’t think it was so visible before.
June 28th, 2012 at 7:49 PM
Bravo!
Great pictures and videos.
June 28th, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Thank you for the comments everyone. BC thanks for the heads up on my mistake-I fixed it! When I first saw that transmitter vest I was surprised cuz of all the pics I’ve ever taken of Quest it has never shown that much. I’m hoping it’s because it’s loosening up and will soon fall off. 🙂
June 28th, 2012 at 8:19 PM
It is so good to see the little ones so healthy and beautiful.
Quest’s harness does look loose to me too actually and Kendal is so cute. Good to see him 🙂
And the little ones at the banding are adorable!!!
🙂
June 29th, 2012 at 4:27 AM
Awesome for you!! Thank you for sharing with us!!! 😀
July 1st, 2012 at 8:29 PM
catching up…again…but nice pics , MAK!. You are so fortunate to see all of the young offspring of ROC’s legacy. Love,especially, the Quest pictures.
In all the pictures I’ve seen this year….of all you holding the babes as they are banded…you can see the love and awe as the babes are held and the pictures are snapped. It is there in every picture! What an experience!