Dot.ca's unusual feeding technique

"Here comes the airplane!"

 

He tripped over the food piece 3 times trying to feed it!  Nice poop shot from the baby during the long feed too!

Dot.ca and eyas

That's Beauty, Annette, but nice picture of her with her baby! 

          Don Mills - all three juveniles flying
June 26, 2012 - Toronto - Don Mills

Ann Brokelman Reports:

Today at lunch I saw all fledged Peregrine Falcon.

Amora flew into the pillar with Mira.

Mira took off and flew to the top of the building

Then Mira flew over to the 220 building. Quest flew by and Mira went after her.

Blaze was tucked into same building just resting.

My final view was all three on 220 Duncan Millls

Posted on June 26, 2012 5:51 pm
Observation for Toronto - Don Mills
           

!!! All fledglings still visible & even Eagan is now holding his altitude after his rescue last night from the ground!
June 26, 2012 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages

CPF Volunteer Reports:

June 26th - 2012 - 7:30am
Hi again:
I stopped in at the Yellow Pages building on my way home from work this morning at about 7:30 am. I immediately spotted one fledgling on an upper ledge on the South side of the building. I spotted the second on the ledge on southwest corner directly opposite the nest box ledge. The third however remained elusive as I circled the building
two or three times. Then the female adult Linn appeared on the peak of the building perched on the white pipes. Still looking for the third fledgling, I lost sight of the one on the south side. Argh! I walked farther away from the south side to try to get a better point of view and as if on cue, there sits one fledgling right beside mom with another about 15 feet below that on the slanted roof (looks like there is some wire netting on it so it provided a surface with traction). And wow were they screaming at mom for food.
She of course continued preening and ignored them-even though one was screaming in her ear! I quickly checked on the fledgling on the southwest ledge and he was still there! All three in sight and mom too! What a wonderful sight that was!!
Irma

Posted on June 26, 2012 2:15 pm
Observation for Scarborough - Yellow Pages

!!! The young fledgling named Janet is still beein seen and still alive!
June 26, 2012 - Mississauga - Executive Centre

CPF Postmaster Reports:

June 26th - 2012

A quickly update on the status of the peregrines at the MEC nest site. The good news, is that reports are still coming in with regards to the status on Janet, the sole surviving fledgling from the MEC nest site. As reports stream in from observers in the area that are still seeing Janet - (banded Black 57 over X on one leg and a Yellow band on the other leg) hiding out on the condo / apartment balconies around Eglinton and Hurontario in Mississauga.

The resident adult female - (her mother) that was injured in a territorial battle with another adult female is still in rehabilitation and although we have not received any recent news on her status, the last we had an update is that she had finally been transferred to the Owl foundation where she can benefit from much larger flight pens so that her flight skills can be properly evaluated.

The banded - still and unidentified “rouge� adult female continues to occupy the nesting territory and nest box at the MEC nest. It appears that has finally been able to charm and attract the attention of the resident adult male as he has finally stopped stooping and attacking her in his efforts to drive her out of the territory and protect his remaining offspring.

This banded adult rouge female has also finally stopped attacking the juvenile Janet since her father has both moved her away from the nest territory and hidden her at another location, and been coaxing this rouge adult female with food back to the nest territory away from Janet. Pretty smart indeed!

It has been fascinating to see this story unfold as the resident adult male has figured out a way to protect his surviving offspring by moving her to another site away from the nest territory, and has kept the adult rouge female at bay first by constantly attacking and stooping her, then by providing her with food to distract her, while at the same time he retrieves other food cashes that he has secretly stashed and takes these food caches up to feed Janet at another location while the adult rouge female is eating at the nest site.

It has been both tragic and fascinating to see this story unfold. It has become quite obvious now as we review all of our fledge watch notes and connect the dots as they say, that this rough adult banded female has been responsible for the premature fledgling and death of the other two much younger siblings produced at this nest site - (named Jennifer & Skyreach), in addition to the injury of the resident adult female mother as they battled for the territory.

While it appears that the resident adult male has succumb to the presence and pressure of this new adult female, and has accepted the fact that he has not been able to drive her off and she is here to stay, he still continues to sneak off throughout the day to attend to his offspring Janet still being hidden out in the Eglinton & Hurontario area.

We await further news on the original territorial adult female with regards to her rehabilitation and will advice on when she can finally be released. Sadly, this story is far from being over, as we know only too well what will happen when she is finally released back to the wild - (where ever she is released from). As we have experienced on many occasions, regardless of when or where she is released, her first mission in life as a wild free bird will be to return back to “her home territory, her mate and her offspring� and will once again be in battle with the rouge female on her territory.

We will keep you adviced as to her release date as soon as the Ministry of Natural Resources has advised us of her release date.
Stay tuned…………

Posted on June 26, 2012 11:41 am
Observation for Mississauga - Executive Centre

Looks like all 3 juvies are on the ledge! 

Nice!

Saw on FB-a song for Harmon!   

http://http://soundcloud.com/gtdub/harmon.   

Adorable! Thanks for posting this!

Beauty is feeding her baby

 

Posted on BCAW:

A piece of good news from South Bend: Guinevere is hunting and also giving flying lessons to her chick. It is beautiful to see them floating on air and catching updrafts !

                   

I'm hungry!

uh oh, I flipped!

feeding da feets!

Hello---anybody, I'm down here, on my back.

 

Nice family pic -shows feather near eye on baby.

I actually feel better that she has been retrieved. they wil fix her up and fatten her up and a falconer is the best thing for her. She will learn good hunting skills.

I finally feel confident for her

I do too, Bev. 

One needs to make their own luck.

Series of events:

Went to UB on Sat - > met Roch Peepers -> Told of Banding -> went to CT -> met Sage/Roger -> introduced to DEC by Sage -> Sage told me that "they" were letting people up -> Went in -> No one there (they went up 10 mins earlier) -> Took a chance on a stairwell I found -> Ran up 6 flights in a dark and extremely dusty stairwell -> Stopped to hack and cough -> ran up a flight -> thought I was going to die (thought of not being found as my heart was pumping and coughing) -> ran up 2 more flights (more thoughts of death) -> listened for voices (had no idea what floor it was on) - nothing -> walked then ran up more flights -> heard a sound above me -> more flights -> then saw the group as I peeked around a corner -> Assisted when asked.   

See I made my own luck.   

What an adventure!  Glad you had a good time and met so many new people!

Fly high and free, little Brisk.