What fun for you, Patti! Thanks for sharing!

[Cinnamon has been doing several flights keeping height including the "E" on the Sheraton]

I just got this from Zoe, a fellow watcher, who is at work, but saw Harry, our early morning watcher, on her coffee break:

"Harry can see all the family - the 2 [Kate and Cinnamon] are on the Bell building and Cinnamon has been doing several flights keeping height including the "E" on the Sheraton."

Well, that sounds positive!  The "E" is up higher than the nest ledge!!  Cinnamon is making good, despite the odds!  Maybe he got fed earlier this morning.  I sure do hope so!!  Just thought I'd let you all know.  I am heading down for 2pm today, needed a slight reprieve from going in earlier...  Will let you know about the day tonight.
 
Anne in Toronto   

This report sounds more hopeful for Cinnamon.  Thanks for the update!

I love watching these little Owls each year-sad now that they're gone but glad that they made it after all the trouble with the Pigeons.

Update posted today:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/lost-penguin-recovering-medical-procedure-flush-system/story?id=13941016

They grow so fast-love the pantaloons!  Thanks, Kat!

[wnyfalconfan (Joyce):]

wnyfalconfan (Joyce): News from CT: Phoebe Snow was rescued and returned to roof.

Wonderful news!  

Anne just called and asked me to pass it along that Cinnamon & Kate both fledged, did very well, and flew over to the building across the street, which is quite tall, and made it!   :

Wonderful news!  May they stay safe!

Amazing photography! 

Great action pictures, Bonnie! Thanks for sharing!

I posted this earlier in the wrong spot so am reposting it here: 


!!! One real fledge, one slipped off the ledge, and one still at home!
June 24, 2011 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Mark Nash Reports:
June 23 & June 24 - 2011
Its been a busy couple of days and there has not been enough time in the day (or night) to do many postings given all of the time we’re spending in th streets doing some very long days and not getting much computer time.
Friday June 24 was the busy day at Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site when Kathy reported from Scarborough Yellow pages that Striker - 97 over Y first took his first flight ending up on an upper ledge around to the south east side of the Yellow Pages building. There his spent most of the day running back and forth across the ledge much to the delight of the occupants in the office suite.
Paul and Michelle later attended the office suites on the 11th floor to get a better look at him where they were able to confirm that despite his rather loud and hard impact with the glass prior to him falling down the face of the building where finally ended up on the ledge, that he was alright. Michelle and other office occupants took some great photos.

Marion and I arrived just shortly after 4pm to relieve Kathy and Michelle and witnessed several small feedings by Linn and Reuben. At approx. 7pm, with gusty and constant winds prevailing most of the day, little Jet - 98 over Y was actually blown off the nest ledge rim and was swept into the air. With little wing flapping going on at all, Marion watched in horror as he fell almost straight down the side of the building and was finally caught by the first ledge some 6 stories down. Thank goodness he at least opened his wings during his decent as they softened his fall.
Moments later, he did appear from the back of the ledge and spent the balance of the evening running back and forth on the ledge screaming to his parents for food as they soared around overhead.

Striker later took his second short flight gaining a little altitude as he round the building to the north west side and landed on yet another ledge at the same level as his brother Jet, but sadly not a connecting ledge. By dark, the two fledglings bedded down for the evening.

Rihannon - 53 over X stayed in the nest ledge all day with very little flapping through out the day, and received several feedings from her parents.

We closed the watch down at 9:45pm looking forward to returning in the morning to continue the watch.
Stay tuned…..

Holy flying fledgling falcon! Mom should have told this little one not to play in traffic! 

Reminds me of Susan B...this link is to Lou's album from July 7 2008...pictures 17-24...

http://tinyurl.com/5uwab36

   Sure wish I hadn't been a lurker that my first year. Would love to have seen those last 5 offspring of M&K flying through the gorge! 

They were awesome to watch flying in the gorge!

MINOT, N.D. — As a historic flood threatened to drown this city, the animals from the local zoo were evacuated to a warehouse high above the valley floor. There were two of every sort — donkeys, hedgehogs, bald eagles, reindeer, toucans and many others — packed together in a makeshift sanctuary.

And yes, the zookeepers, trying to make the best of a bad situation, were fully aware of the joke. So they named a lamb Noah in honor of the occasion, and at times grant him freedom to wander through this menagerie.

Now the sounds and smells of these displaced animals, more than 100 in all, fill the drab confines of an old furniture warehouse, situated between a used car lot and a clothing store.

Several dozen pens inside hold the animals — chain link for the deer and emu; metal walls for the warthogs and bobcats; wire mesh for the tamarin monkeys and chickens — as a round-the-clock crew of zookeepers labor in vain to create an atmosphere of normalcy.

The camels have shown a mischievous side, trying several escapes and, recently, operating the light switches with their tongues. The whining of the gray wolves, recently relocated to another zoo, spooked some of those working the overnight shift. And on Friday, a zookeeper chased after a potbellied pig while little Noah pranced happily alongside the pens. He had learned from experience, though, to steer swiping distance clear of the bobcats’ abode.

“All of it is very strange,� said Haley McClure, a seasonal zookeeper with the Roosevelt Park Zoo.

The floodwaters climbed to levels never before recorded in this city on Friday, pouring over protective barriers and into the low-lying neighborhoods that more than a quarter of this city calls home.

The spreading Souris River, known here as the Mouse after its French name, filled houses, closed bridges, washed out railroad tracks and, as more and more water arrived, left residents wondering how high it would rise. There was growing concern that the city would be effectively split in two by the water.

The flood was long predicted, forcing an evacuation several weeks ago and again this week as warnings of devastation escalated. As a result, many residents had time to save belongings from homes that now stand in rushing water reaching close to some roofs.

And for the workers at the 90-year-old zoo, which straddles the river and also was flooded in 1969, when the animals were taken to a livestock yard, that extra notice allowed for the safe evacuation of every animal, right down to the river otters.

The evacuation, most of which occurred during the first flood scare and the rest of which occurred in the past week, was chaotic.

“From the pictures I’ve seen of Noah’s Ark, the animals came on board pretty easily, two by two, marching right along,� said David Merritt, the zoo director. “That’s not exactly what happened.�

It took a frantic search to find someone in Wisconsin with a trailer able to accommodate a giraffe. And it took quite a bit longer to convince the giraffes that the trailer was accommodating.

On the other side of the zoo, a team of workers took the better part of the day to corral the bison. A team of police officers was on hand when the three bears were anesthetized. The tiny Sika deer bounced out of captivity. And many more animals fought as they were loaded into cages.

“It was the saddest day I ever experienced,� said Jondrea Crawford, a seasonal zookeeper. “Because you could see the terror in their eyes.�

The head of the Dakota Zoo in Bismarck (it was also partly evacuated because of flooding on the Missouri River), drove up to lend his new expertise.

“If you’re picking up furniture and throwing it up on a truck — anybody can do that,� said Terry Lincoln, the director of the zoo, which has been protected by newly constructed levees and is now housing several of Minot’s displaced animals. “In a zoo setting you can’t take someone off the street and, say, ‘Go get the 500-pound lion.’ It just doesn’t work that way.�

The smaller reptiles are being housed in a locker room at the hockey rink. Local farmers agreed to take some of the llamas, alpacas, bison and elk. And many of the more challenging animals — the bears, jaguars and lions — were sent directly to other zoos in the region.

But a majority were taken to the former furniture warehouse, nicknamed the “north zoo,� which is now a government building used for storage, including sandbags for the flood.

“They really designed an awfully nice little zoo in hours,� said Ron Merritt, executive director of the parks department.

Most of the zoo animals have spent more than a month in the building, now heavy with the smell of hay and excrement. Each day, though, some of the remaining animals are being moved to those other zoos; six flamingos and a pelican were packed, squawking, into crates on Friday for transport.

The high waters are expected to remain well into July. And though the parks director expects the zoo to reopen next year, it could be longer before all the animals can return.

In the meantime, as the city sank deeper into the Souris River, the kookaburras continued their cacophonous chatter, the camels munched on hay bales, a lone alligator soaked silently in a large tub, the ground hornbills greeted visitors with curiosity, and the lamb named Noah continued his rounds.


By A. G. SULZBERGER
Published: June 24, 2011

In the video of 6/25 , the pigeon got into a fight with the 2 Owlettes in the hallway chasing one of them completely out of the box!  

OMG, how awful...dern pigeons!! Hope someone rescues the poor baby owl!! The pigeon was bringing nesting material back in. Do they ever learn??

Here's the translate: This morning while most of us are on a ear layers, one of the two cubs under the wings of the dove flew by outside. He got a few tricks of the wing the birds to handle and slipped out. The other was the young brood space. The dove came in as the two youngsters were in the porch and was determined
to go to the nest. We now have a stone placed on the sloping shelf, making it less attractive to birds is to breed. Or they give up the breeding efforts, we will we have to wait, but they are very persistent this year. The chick that was hatched can very well save him now 36 days old, an average uitvliegleeftijd. No doubt he's somewhere in one of the trees in the yard or in the shed next door. The other young will not last much longer in coming. The clip will later today (or tomorrow) can be placed.

On the 6/23 video, you see a man place something to deter the pigeons from nesting.  It's obvious they've got to change something next year-this is ridiculously stressful for both the Owls and Pigeons!

In the video of 6/25 , the pigeon got into a fight with the 2 Owlettes in the hallway chasing one of them completely out of the box! 

They should have taken care of him on Monday when he was found. To just leave him there to eat sand and sticks, makes me mad. A little too late. I sure hope he survives and they find a way to get him back with his others. Next time, be prepared! Now they know, it can happen.  Thanks nff for the link!

I couldn't understand it either-obviously he was confused to begin with and then think he could find his way out of this on his own? Glad someone finally intervened giving him some chance of survival.  Poor thing-hope he's going to be OK.