Tiago took over his father's site - he was born at the King street site.  I think his mother was Mandy but I'll have to look it up as I'm not 100% going on middle aged memory alone!.  His dad of course was the famous Windwhistler - the bigamous male that ran both King and Sheraton sites simultaneously.  

Windwhistler was born at my site in Etobicoke at the now Sun Life building.  His mother was Alberta and father was Toby.  Alberta was born at the Wainright breeding centre in Alberta (hence the name) and was brought to Hamilton as a foster chick for release.  That's as much as I can remember without looking it up..lol!

Just found this breaking news over at CMNH and thought you guys would like to know!!

C&C called me and said the female is black over green 95V and she is Seneca from the 2008 Rochester nest. Unfortunately, they could not get the male's bands today.


Here is the link to the thread!

http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?49383.10#post_50224

Wohooo!!!!  Thank you so much, that is absolutely great news!!   

I saw that on the map!  She seems to be a smart falcon though.  She flew by all our nest sites and didnt' get into any trouble and she could easily have taken some of the older females here given her young age. She's obviously not in any hurry to settle in.

There are quite a few sites this Spring suffering from a lack of tiercels...there seems to be an over abundance of females but not many males around.

Interesting...I knew she'd come back in the Spring.  She is not far from here or her sisters nest site for that matter!   Will keep my eyes to the sky!

Nicole, does Polly hunt on her own at all that you know of?  Or is she entirely dependant on the parents?

Thanks for those links Paul, very interesting and encouraging in my opinion   

Well I'm no expert but I thought you might be interested to know of two separate cases in the UK where parents tolerated a juvenile the following year when they nested again.  In one case they witnessed the young subadult feeding her parents new eyases while she watched on.  She helped the parents hunt and protect the nest, and was seen hanging out with the parents even after the season was over so it does happen.  But it doesn't seem to be common or maybe we just dont' know about because the cams and people usually only watching during nesting season.  

Urban nesting seems to be showing us that falcons don't always behave the way the experts said they would.  I remember reading that the parents drove the young out of the area - and yet I've seen at my own site where the parents tolerated their young for months after they should have left.  From what I've seen they leave when they are ready, our female this year stayed until the end of September and hunted daily with her mother.  I also read that a tiercel and a female would never have a territorial fight - then we saw one on the live cams in Sussex last Spring.  Everytime I read they 'shouldn't or don't do something - it seems they do the opposite!  

It will be interesting to see if anyone else has experienced what is happening at your nest site, and also to see what happens.  Obviously the fact they are still feeding her shows that perhaps they know she can't get along on her own and she's not a threat as she is their offspring.  Now whether they will feel that way when she is an adult will be interesting.

You might also be interested to know that there was a young juvenile male in Hamilton that lost one of his legs and everyone said no way he would ever survive or learn to hunt with one leg.  Not only did he survive but he was discovered at a nest site with a mate two years later.   There was also a wonderful female falcon at GRE in the US who had a bad leg, one talon was missing and her leg looked like it was turned inwards.  She successfully nested and raised young.  I remember watching her on cam and she would hop on the one bad leg so it is possible to adapt.  Maybe Polly just needs some time to learn to survive with her handicap and once she does - she may surprise everyone.  I hope she does  

As pretty as she looks, my first thought was she is like a 'beacon' to a falcon!  They won't have trouble spotting her !

Wow is right, very pretty looking!  Thnk you for sharing.

Does someone have an alternate way to contact Mark Nash at CPF?  Their website is down (getting a 404 website not found error) and I tried emailing him, but that bounced back with "domain not found".  I know the email address was good yesterday-he had replied to something I sent.  Thanks!

Hmm..it was up this morning.  Check your pm kitty, I'm sending you an alternate contact.

Hmmm...that's one of ours for sure.  We put colored tape on one leg during the banding so we can track them when they fledge.  

I asked BigFrank and he thinks it's a juvie from 2007 as he saw the photo back when it was first posted, he will try to find out who it is!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S from a Canadian Mariah fan ! 

Very interesting indeed...she's skirted the nest sites in Mississauga.  If she stays near the lake by the time any of the existing falcons spotted her she would be well out of harms way...she's a smart girl that one