Beauty finally gets a break...

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Sad news today!
April 22, 2019 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
April 22nd

Got a call from Oxford Property Management at Canada Square reporting a dead peregrine on the roof. Although the bird was in an area that is not accessible they were able to snap a photo of the bird through the window.

Unfortunately the banded bird is none other than Malik the adult male. He may have been in a territorial battle with another falcon and lost. We will be going out to the site soon to see if there are eggs yet and if there is indeed another falcon on site.

Stay tuned for updates.

Was this Haven’s mate?  Can’t remember.

Egg chart #2!

DC isn’t giving Beauty many breaks from eggsitting this year. It hasn’t been confirmed he’s the tiercel with the female at Brighton but maybe he’s splitting time between the 2 sites?

I think Stormin was in.  Lens is dirty so hard to see clearly but I think 2 different birds - finally in the past hour.  Having Linda look at my captures to see if she can confirm. 

Here’s hoping..

Toronto Sheraton came on yesterday.  Only female incubating 4 eggs, no sign of Stormin.  She left the eggs for 50 minutes in the cold last night to eat and no one came in to cover.  She left again just now and no one came in and she's back after 5 minutes.

We'll have to see what is going on here.

I saw that the camera was back on..sad news if no male though, especially if something’s happened to Stormin. 

Hi everyone! This is Debbie Z reporting from Reno. The San Jose, California peregrines, Clara and Fernando, had four eggs this year, and just a few days ago three of them hatched! We are celebrating out West!

Debbie

                     

Ok I"m home...so...there is a story.  I'll start at the beginning because it's complicated.   So yesterday Mathew, from Jacks home - the private condo's emailed me to say mom was in a fight and was on a lower balcony and they didn't know if she could fly.  This morning she flew and the other female was there and chased her out.  I did see photo's of Mom that he took and it was definitely her.  She was displaced and was trying to come home I guess.  They assumed it was Mom and Jack still there.  

I of course thought..hmm could the intruder be Aria since the site is so close to ours so off Lucie and I went?  Well turns out Mom was the intruder, Jack is not there anymore.  Aria is nesting with a male banded Black/Red with a purple USFW band - I have the numbers - just confirming with a US contact first before I post.  She has 3 eggs so far and she's incubating them so they are hers, she is fine and looks fantastic.  I knew it was her soon as I looked through the bins and saw her chest and head...even before Lucie got the bands.  So Aria has now taken over her grandfather's nest site.

Apparently she was talon locked with Mom yesterday and got on top of her and pinned her down and just pecked away at her.  Mom is fine, I saw photos he took last night of her but she was obviously exhausted.  We don't know her age but she'd be 16 or 17 years of age.



Contrary to the past - people there were fantastic with us.  We had one couple invite us into their apartment and on to their balcony right across the nest so Lucie could take photos. Another gave us their number and said we could call and they'd let us in.  Mathew took us up to take photos as well and we met more people.  So that was a nice surprise.  Lucie just dropped me off - she got lots of photos she will post as soon as she's sorted them.

Awesome news!  Can’t wait to see pics!  Thanks, Carly!

Aria alive and on eggs with mate.  Details to come

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Great news!

First egg for Eve and Eole this morning.

     

Time to move, DC!

4 eggs confirmed on shift change   

         

         

The Heart Walk went great. The weather cooperated this year. The sun even came out at the end. Thank you to everyone who donated.

Did you see me waving at Camera 1?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

I didn’t but congrats on making your goal and a successful walk..great day for it!

Did anyone else just hear that weird sounding scream by Beauty? She's okay, she just went into the tray but I noticed earlier too when calling her voice sounds off.  DC left a few minutes ago.  Maybe she's got a frog in her throat 

I hope that Brighton female isn’t causing problems.