!!! Yellow Pages Banding - June 12th-2013 - Success! 2 very healthy hatchlings
June 12, 2013 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Marion Nash Reports:
Yellow Pages Banding - June 12th-2013

2 more healthy chicks for the Scarborough Yellow Pages Nest site!

Late this morning, 2 healthy Peregrine chicks were successfully banded by Mark Heaton of the Ministry of Natural Resources with th help of CPF volunteers, and returned back to the nest ledge to their parents.

One of CPFs long time volunteers and supporters, John Miller our Rock Climber who extracted the chicks from the nest high atop the Yellow Pages building with the help of Mark Nash who watched his back while he went over the edge and extracted the two young peregrine hatchlings for banding.

While in the lobby many people anxiously awaited the new additions to the family Linn the long standing resident adult female was busy giving John the business and her opinion of the hole matter.

When the chicks where brought down to the banding table, Dave Currie assisted Marion Nash at the banding table to record the banding data and Mark Heaton and his crew banded the chicks.

The chicks, 1 male and 1 female were weighed, sexed, and banded without much fuss from them at all because they had full crops and like a human baby that had just been fed were a little sleepy and content to accept the new bands and have their pictures taken for the family album.

The two young peregrine hatchlings were although full of energy and very feisty by the end of the banding process and clearly had their mothers attitude. Very healthy indeed!

The resident adult male father - “Ruben� was also on hand assisting his mate with her efforts to dispatch the human extraction crew on the upper roof walkway.

The young female hatchling weighed in at a whopping 1010 grams one of the heaviest this year and was named Neira. Her young brother weighing in at 690 grams was named Loki.

A huge thank you to Petra and Yellow Pages for all of their support and assistance and to the Aurora district of the Ontario Ministry of Natural resources and Mark Heaton and his crew for banding support.

What a great team!!

 

Day 4 of Etobicoke Sunlife Fledge Watch...

I really like those names, thank you for the updates 

[LONESOME NO MORE!!]

    From the Hamilton Web site!!   

LONESOME NO MORE!!    

Friday, May 31, 2013 - Around 05:47 this morning Madame X took a break, allowing the camera to clearly see that Chick No. 2 had arrived. Judging from the relatively tidy condition of the second youngster's feathers, it was hatched several hours before. The photo at left is the first view available - the two remaining eggs and pieces of No. 2's shell can also be seen; the one at right shows them about two hours later, moved more into the centre of the scrape and cuddling up. Stay tuned!!

From CPF:

!!! Second Hatch for Madame X and Surge!!
May 31, 2013 - Hamilton - Sheraton Hotel
Kathy Reports:

What exciting news for Madame X and Surge and all the Hamilton fans!!  A second egg has hatched overnight!

There was almost 3 days between the laying of Egg 1 and 2 and the weather being damp and wet, full on incubation likely started earlier than usual hence the delay between egg hatching..that’s the story I’m going with!    

Congratulations Hamilton!!!


 

Congrats Kitty, I always love reading your posts! 

I swear he waits for her to feed, then gets going himself! Who cares, it works!!

 

I don't recall ever seeing this much tandem feeding!  Are they in competition?   Are they over feeding the babies?    What are they bringing up to the nest box?  Ducks? 

Before the banding today, Tracy and I caught Jack sneaking into the ledge with food shortly after O'Connor had fed them!  So I guess that's where he gets it from!  And speaking of ducks...they found one up on the rooftop    One day when Frank and I were up on the condo tower a few years ago, we also saw a duck in the cache!

Etobicoke banding was held this afternoon! 

So we have 3 Girls and 1 Very Special Boy for O'Connor and Jack:

1. Layton - Female
2. Shania - Female
3. Lizzie - Female

and in honor of our good friend Frank we have 'Big Frank', our little boy who at an impressive 760 grams was as feisty as his sisters and showed plenty of attitude! 

Just wanted to share the good news with you all 

It's OK little bro...you'll catch up REAL quick

 

First hatch for Jack and TR Mom at Toronto Residential!!

http://www.asic.ca/peregrinefalcons/

Etobicoke Sunlife Web Cam is finally live!!  See Jack and O'Connor and the babies!!  The kids are huge and there are four of them!!

http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/Web_Cams/Etobicoke/index.htm

Thanks Donna 

Blow this one up, you can see the two halves have separated and see the baby...go full screen..!!

It's hatching now!  Should be out shortly.  I love how she's encouraging it along, chupping and shuffling 

[!!! We have a hatch at the Scarborough nest site - so far at least two chicks!!]

!!! We have a hatch at the Scarborough nest site - so far at least two chicks!!
May 24, 2013 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages

Thanks for bringing the day's news over carly. Totally on hatch watch here LOL!