Hold on Dorothy, Nettie and Tesh possibly on the way to help you!  Glad she is okay for now.

  Happy Anniversary! 

Clones!! Beauty/Tesh 

Sure would like to see Tesh in her adult plumage and then compare her and the Beautyful one!   

Talons crossed we will someday!  Great comparison photos! 

MEC Female Identified.
July 31, 2014 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Tracy Simpson Reports:

A big thank you to Lucie that yesterday was able to confirm what we suspected in that the female seen on camera at MEC is Midnght from the downtown Brampton nest site.

A few days ago we were watching vigorous activity in the nest box with the adults in and out regularly and doing more than simple fall bonding. The nest scrapes were being seriously excavated along with lots of bowing that looked more like courtship than housecleaning. Over the past few days we were able to confirm that there is indeed a new bird at the MEC site and that bonding of this new pairing was in high swing. Thanks to our web camera watchers we were able to confirm band colors as black over red on the left leg and purple USFW on the right of this new female. During Lucie’s visit to the site yesterday she was able to 100% clearly see through her scope the 9 on top with a 90% certainty of an 8 beside it and 100% confirm an E on the bottom. This is consistent with Midnight, hatched in 2011 in Ohio, whose band is black 98 over red E.

Midnight was identified in Ontario as a subadult in 2012 when I found her hanging around in downtown Brampton with Milton, then resident male at the Brampton Courthouse. Nothing came of that nesting season but by 2013 she was ready to give nesting a try. The spring started late for her in downtown Brampton as her mate Milton was ousted by a younger Canadian male named Striker from the Yellow Pages nest site, also hatched in 2011. The eggs laid were Milton’s but the new male attending to her had changed. Her attempt to nest on the George St. condo failed to hatch any young. By August, Midnight had come south down Hwy. 10 to the Brittania Road area chasing out a subadult female named Alfrieda (now nesting at Lakeridge Hospital in Oshawa) and spent over a month courting Ossie, a subadult male hatched at the William Osler Hospital in 2012. By the winter of 2013, Midnight was back further north and Ossie was no longer around the Revenue Canada building.

This spring, Midnight was once again in downtown Brampton with Striker and they were working on hatching young on the top of the George St condo. Territorial battles with other females, intense rainfall events, lack of substrate and drainage and lingering cold most likely all played a role in her second nest failure in two years. When we heard that a black over red banded female was now in the MEC box and on camera, we immediately thought of her.

Up to this point, this territory has been held by Rogue who successfully hatched and raised one male chick this year. Where Rogue is at this time no one really knows but we will certainly be watching for her. Only time will tell who will be the breeding adult female next year at MEC as there is still a long way to go before we get there. We will be out over the long weekend to check in on Midnight and Renegade as well as head north to look for Striker and Rogue. We will keep you up to date on all the latest news regarding this site so keep checking back.

 

Ugh..another change over at MEC...Beth jsut alerted me to it.  We've got a falcon with Black/Red bands on cam.  

Wow and the Legacy continues! Now, is this a totally new nest site?? Thanks Carly!

As far as I know it's a new site.

She's soooo beautiful 

They've posted the updates over at CMNH with many photos as well.  Tough situation and I'm sure not easy for them as they've followed Newton and Bolt for many years and rescued their offspring over the years.

I still remember Mariah losing her long time home and seeing the photos of her clawing at the netting so I can imagine Newton and Bolt losing their home wasn't easy either.  I hope Bolt and their fledglings, SW and Ruth are all somewhere safe.

 

[After checking the banding database, Black 53 over X turns up to be a peregrine named Rihannon, a female peregrine produced at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site in 2011. Her parents are Linn hatched 2007 from Rochester NY USA and Rueben, hatched in 2003 from Wisconsin USA.]

!!! Beachville territorial female has been identified! Its Rihannon from the Yellow Pages nest site!
July 27, 2014 - Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel
Mark Nash Reports:

Sunday July 27th - 2014
The Beachville territorial female has been identified! Its Rihannon from the Yellow Pages nest site!
Wow, Lucie and Richard are determined!!! Great works guys as all of your efforts have paid off!!

Lucie texted me Sunday with some great news, in that she and Richard attended the Beachville Quarry site again this weekend determined to get the identity of the territorial female that has hooked up with Joe - Black banded 48 over Y, the little 2010 Hamilton produced male who they earlier identified a week ago on one of their earlier visits. Well, their efforts have paid off, as they were able to identify the territorial female via its leg bands, - (Black 53 over X).

After checking the banding database, Black 53 over X turns up to be a peregrine named Rihannon, a female peregrine produced at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site in 2011. Her parents are Linn hatched 2007 from Rochester NY USA and Rueben, hatched in 2003 from Wisconsin USA.

During their visits over the past month since the peregrines were reported, we have found no evidence of them having actually produced offspring this season as we would have seen fledgling juveniles still hanging around at this time in the season. As we know, the fledglings are solely dependant on their adults for food, training and support for 2 to 3 months after they fledge,, and there is no evidence of any fledglings.

That being said, our fingers are crossed that the pair will stay (or return if they migrate) and produce offspring next season………..

Sorry to hear this news...poor SW.     Hope she's OK.  I know she's up there I age..how old now?

15 years old.

SW was last seen on July 22nd, a new female has moved in and has been seen bonding with Boomer the past few days.

Haven't the heart to post what little is known but here is the link to CMNH and read backwards if interested.  C&C working on trying to ID new female - she has black/green bands.

http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?75073.580#post_77215

I am well, MAK, thanks for asking. It would be really nice if Veteran brought back a mate to his old stomping grounds by you so he wouldn't be tempted to interfere with Beauty, DC, and fledglings.

Dot in PA

Dot, we are all hoping for that-the good news is that I'm seeing Veteran on the building and yesterday I watched him clear the airspace here by Seneca Towers so he's keeping his territory so far.   

Thank you for the update MAK, such a tragic situation.  I hope Veteran can find himself a new mate and I'm sure given all the pefas that go through the area he shouldn't have any trouble attracting someone.  Still sucks though, Luzerne was so young... .

 

I would report what those people said to DEC annonymously just as a precaution.  We have had a similar situation up here where a woman threatened to poison the falcons.  That way if something happens, they know whose door to be knocking on first.  It's also a good opportunity to 'educate' people and remind them of the 'laws' around endangered species.