Kai no guy.

 

It's a girl! 

From Peregrine Place:

In a strange turn of events, the new Corpus Christi nest now has one egg. A new Canadian banded peregrine showed up recently at the nest site & was courting with an unbanded peregrine. It was identified by the Canadian Peregrine Foundation as a male, C/53, Kai, hatched at Etobicoke General in 2024. The mother is from Buffalo Statler, grandparents Ralphie & Alice. Great great descendant of Rochester Mariah & Kaver. An egg was recently laid at CC but by Kai & not the Noba! So Kai is a female, not male as originally banded. Strange things happen every year with Peregrines. Welcome Kai!

That's awesome news Carly! I've lost track of all these M&K kids. lol
How is Kai related to Rhea Mae and Tiago. Through Stormin?

Through Ralphie who was at Statler with Alice.  Koda is their daughter and Kai's mother.  So Rhea Mae and Tiago are his great-grandparents as Ralphie was their son.

Edited to add the 'great' so M&K would be 'great-great'.  So many to keep track of in that line. 

Another in the M&K line:

From Friends of CPF:

Exciting news! KAI, 2024 hatch at William Osler /Etobicoke General has been spotted in Buffalo NY!! Banded C/53, he was just the tiniest little guy (but very fiesty) and is the son of KODA-IDESTA and BIRCH. KODA is from Buffalo, so her son is making that his home. He has found a lovely nest site, which has a camera but it is private. But our friends at Peregrine Place do report on that site, so we will watch for updates and share them here.

Way to go KAI!

Just got an email that Aria laid her first egg of 2026 this morning 

[SCARLET's parents are ARIA and INDY.]

From Friends of CPF:

"Great news from St. Louis, Missouri!!  One of our peregrines has been spotted in the downtown area and her band was clearly seen, 00/AB.  This belongs to SCARLET, hatched in 2020, at the Masters Condos in Etobicoke.  We have no other information on SCARLET as yet but we are hoping for more photos and details soon 🤞

SCARLET's  parents are ARIA and INDY.  She had one sibling, MILBURN, who went missing during fledge watch.
 
ARIA (black/green, 85/BA, 2016 hatch from Rochester, NY) is the daughter of  DOT.CA and BEAUTY.

'INDY' (black/red, 13/N, 2013 hatch from Gary, Indiana) does not have an official name.  With much thanks to Kathy Majich, we have learned that "INDY was born in 2013 at US Steel old coke plant Gary, Indiana. Father is Steely Dan, also born at the same plant as Indy. Father's parents both listed as unbanded. Mother is unbanded"   Sadly, Indy was found dead in 2022, not far from his Etobicoke nest site, as a result of an altercation with another peregrine.

If/when we hear more about SCARLET, we will share the news!  Cheers, Lucie "

News from Friends of Canadian Peregrine Foundation - Aria's daughter Aurora photographed in Brampton.

Some great news out of Brampton! Aurora, 36/AB, 2024 hatch from the Masters, Etobicoke, has been spotted in Brampton this week!!

From these 3 pictures from Ray Vander Kooy..... We are fairly confident it is indeed Aurora.

Always wonderful to hear about the ones who have made it past their first tough year!  Hope she sticks around and finds a nest site in the next few years.

Thank you so much to Rob Mueller for bringing us this information and to Ray for his pictures.

Look at that peachy colored breast!!!

Just like her grandma.

Yes, she reminds me very much of Beauty   

News from Friends of Canadian Peregrine Foundation - Aria's daughter Aurora photographed in Brampton.

Some great news out of Brampton! Aurora, 36/AB, 2024 hatch from the Masters, Etobicoke, has been spotted in Brampton this week!!

From these 3 pictures from Ray Vander Kooy..... We are fairly confident it is indeed Aurora.

Always wonderful to hear about the ones who have made it past their first tough year!  Hope she sticks around and finds a nest site in the next few years.

Thank you so much to Rob Mueller for bringing us this information and to Ray for his pictures.

Look at that peachy colored breast!!!

Oshawa banding yesterday - Alfrieda & Velcro (bands to still be reconfirmed for this year)

Zazu, female, 860g, 47/AB, white tape
Ruby, 940g, 48/AB, yellow tape
Stewie, male, X/52, blue tape
Paulie, male, X/53, red tape

It was Cathy Kerr that got the bands, she deserves all the credit!  She might also have been there in 2023 but not 100% on that yet.  I just helped with history. 

Her mate is also not banded so no idea who he is but one of the kids this year has 'blue feet'.  the little boy does!

We know she was there last year too for sure, but they couldn't get the bottom part of the band, only the 43 so here are bands for the kids for those years - to add to the family tree.


2024 Bands
Female, 685g, 38/AB, red tape
Female, 660g, 39/AB, green on yellow tape
Female, 640g, 40/AB, white tape
Male, 440g, C/53 blue

2025 Bands
Female, 750g, 45/AB, red tape
Female, 760g, 46/AB, white tape
Male, 565g, X/63, blue tape

From Friends of CPF Facebook page:  (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573498315658)

And this is why we band!

Exciting news out of Etobicoke/General, William Osler - we have finally ID'd Mom!!
43/BW is from Statler Towers, Buffalo, NY!!!
2018 hatch to parents Alice(unbanded) & RALPHIE-2009 hatch from Sheraton TORONTO!!
It gets better...

His parents are RHEA MAE(Rochester!!) & TIAGO (KING ST TORONTO!!)
HER GREAT GRANDPARENTS :
Rhea Mae's parents are MARIAH & KAVER (ROCHESTER)
TIAGO'S parents are none other than WINDWHISTLER AND ERIN, of King St TORONTO.
AND her great Aunt is our beautiful QUEST ❤️
How is that for a lineage??!!

So those beautiful 3 chicks have really great genes (as at least the last 3 hatch years) and I sure hope they get to pass them on!

Rob & I were lucky enough to get these great shots of her and that beautiful band, on banding day!
Thanks so much to Chris Saladin for helping me find out who she was. Many thanks to Kathy Majich for filling in her family tree ❤️❤️

And thanks to Lucie for coming with me earlier this year for a couple of Sundays, trying to get a picture of her band. The green is quite faded and those letters were hard to see.  I've included a few pics from those visits but they are from the ground.

Such great news! We did it Scott!!
Cathy Kerr

Stand by, another M&K descendant incoming.  More news soon 

Not to steal the thunder from your banding but Wilma's 3 were also banded at the same time this morning.  For your records - the three newest M&K descendants are:

Female - Blk/BLU 25/AN - named Pearl
Female - Blk/BLU 26/AN - named Velma

Male - Blk/BLU 90/AE   - named Barney