Aria - October 25th; 1.32 pm.  Nice and fluffy on this cool autumn day.

Beautiful photo Lucie.  Welcome to Rfalcon  

Looks like Aria is a noisy one when carrying food! 

She likes to 'announce herself' 

A gull? Holy carp!!! I think I saw her dad get a gull once, a few years ago.

Lucie registered here a few days ago, she's going to sort through her photos and then post some for you all to see.  She's got some fantastic ones of her including these two she shared with me .  I hope she doesn't mind me sharing it with you.  This one was pigeon.

Edit to add:  I just asked and she said it was okay to share 

Perhaps Aria is immune to the construction going on at the ESL nestsite because she grew up listening to the Broad Street Bridge construction.  Yeah, it's been going on that long.  

That's good to know and will help her adjust here as the construction will be ongoing for another year.  Aria, being a sub adult still, is very much a teenager in some ways.  She calls for Lucky if he goes out of sight for too long and she cries for food when he brings some in for himself...perhaps wondering why he won't share like dad did..lol.  She's a very good hunter herself and the other day Lucie caught her bringing in a gull!  She flew over my head one day with a 'live bird' in her talons which kind of freaked me out!  She is a joy to have here with her youthful exuberance.

She is on cam right now.  http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/Web_Cams/Etobicoke/index.htm

  This is quite a development! I sure hope O'Connor is okay and yay for Aria. Our local falcon watcher Jeanne, named her. Thanks for the update Carly!  

hi MAK    

She looks very similar to her big sister Cadence and mom Beauty and she flies like DC.  We'll have to keep an eye on our other sites for O'Connor.

[We can now confirm that the resident female currently on site is Aria, banded black / green 85/BA from Rochester, New York, daughter of Beauty and DotCa.]

Posted to CPF Facebook this morning:

Canadian Peregrine Foundation
4 mins ·

It is with sadness that we must report a change in the resident female at the Etobicoke nest site today. O'Connor is no longer present. A few weeks ago now, a cam watcher noticed that the female on camera at Islington and Bloor that did not look like O'Connor and had what appeared to be a silver USFW band rather than the anodized purple that OC bears. We did not want to post any news regarding this until the situation could be confirmed by one of our great volunteers and Lucie took up the task along with Kathy to ferret out the truth of the matter. Kathy continued to monitor the oddities in the pairs relationship and Lucie came down with camera and scope in hand. We can now confirm that the resident female currently on site is Aria, banded black / green 85/BA from Rochester, New York, daughter of Beauty and DotCa. While we welcome Aria to Canada, we also are thinking about our fabulous O'Connor. It is important to note that this is not the first time O'Connor has abandoned a site as a result of pressure. Lately there has been workers on the rooftops of all three Etobicoke towers as well as this young female on the fringes. This is a carbon copy of what happened in 2011 at the William Osler site that O'Connor used to call home. She left Osler as a result of the exact same pressures and headed south to ESL where she took over the site from Angel, the long standing unbanded female there. We may see O'Connor return to ESL in the spring or even re-emerge at another site in Ontario or beyond, her lack of presence not in any way confirmation of her demise. We hope to see her again some day. Thank you to all who alerted, monitored and participated in this recent discovery. I apologize for not publishing sooner but we will never post something of this magnitude without confirmation from the ground first as this is a serious change. Once again, thanks to all for your help in this.

  Happy Birthday MAK, hope you are having a great day!!

1 turns into 2    

Looks like food is involved! 

 

   Happy Birthday Joyce, hope you have a wonderful day!   

So new female was just on cam eating in full view, such nice views of the band but when I zoom in I get pixels.  Today a friend came down and for an hour we watched through a scope and I can say with 100% certainty this is not O'Connor which if you watched her eating just now you'd have no doubt about.  The bands couldn't be read, the scope was strong but not enough to get a read.  The USFW is Silver - no doubt about that either.

She is dark, long skinny legs, what looks peach on cam looked 'golden' through the scope in the sun.  Gold under her neck and on her chest, she's really lovely and young I think.  And she can fly and she dives like no ones business...she hunts non stop, she's a hungry girl.  After seeing her through the scope...I'd say she reminds me a lot of Cadence too in many ways.  Yesterday she flew over my head with a 'live bird' in her talons...that woke me up!

Here are just two of the photos I got just now on cam:

O'Connor left William Osler under similar circumstances - construction.  She's not a fan of humans, not that any falcon is, but it's possible she may just have had enough.  You are right, she is very strong so I can't see her just going quietly into the night unless something happened to her offsite.  Falcons have accidents, we've seen that even with the most experienced birds.  Or maybe she decided to go on holiday while the work is going on and she'll be back when it's done.    

As for Lucky and Ivy knowing each other - that's just me speculating and responding to the comment about her getting along so well with Lucky .  Many falcons go hunting all along the lakeshore here - we are quite close to Lake Ontario (can see it from the office) - so I expect many of them run into each other and may be familiar with each other.  I don't expect once they are off territory hunting down there that they fight over the area as it's not part of their territory.  Look at Tommy Thompson Park and how many of the young ones are caught and/or sighted hunting there...

I changed it to 'various parks' as Lucky gets around, found another reference to him at Humber Park..so as not to start falcon rumour..lol..they could have met at the lakeshore area somewhere given Ivy had no nest site..she's likely roaming around.

Anyway we're getting ahead of ourselves since we don't know who we have up here yet

Wow, the situation at Etobicoke is very interesting. And sad if it's not O'Connor. It looks like a different bird to me, but as you said, the angles and the lighting are not quite the same.  It would be quite a coincidence if the nest was taken over by another black over green banded bird who gets along well with Lucky and whose whole takeover was off-cam. I guess stranger things have happened, though. If it's not O'Connor, I hope she's okay wherever she is.

Interestingly Ivy has been down by the lake in various parks and so has Lucky (he likes to hang out there off season) over the past two years - both have been photographed there on separate occasions by Rob (who took that Ivy photo I posted) and other bird enthusiasts in the city.  Soooo..perhaps they've met before.