Yes....our Beauty is back and feeding babe!   MAK was right!  Wise woman (MAK) knew Wise woman (Beauty) was doing the right thing.  Betting that DC  brings a lot more food to babe from now on!

Far as I can see DC is still in NB right now.  Maybe B on Merc?

Don't know if I'm doing this right...if not....someone fix it
(movie)

   
This one is for you ginha!  You posted it fine!  More than I can accomplish right now!   Love to see DC feeding the babe.  What a mess!  I don't think I've seen a messier feeding. Maybe only when I was trying to handfeed my Winnie bird (six week old sun conure). I got as much on me as I got on her.  But good for DC!  He is learning...like they all do after a while!  
  So this one is for DC!  You are getting it.  And maybe Ei is right.  Maybe B left so that DC could see the little open mouth...I saw that earlier!  They were beak to beak but earlier DC did not have any food!   Just like maybe Beauty...wise woman...left DC on the egg before this little babe hatched!  

I'm so nervous I just erase message.  I watched all day while I was packing up classroom for summer.
I left after 6 pm and B had left and DC was on eggs and hatch.  He looked nervous and baby looked hungry.  Was babe fed?   No sign of B since  she left?    I have to believe MAK.  If MAK ain't nervous, I ain't nervous ;-)
I  hope all is okay.  Pictures of DC at NB look good, but I'm just catching up, and trying to watch graduation on TV (television, not turkey vulture, folks  )    

I didn't see this part the other day.  Priceless!  Thank you for posting, Donna.

It is nice to see Beauty relaxed and not so restless today since the temp is cooler!   Even the eyas is content to stay under mom. 
 

Hopefully the storm will change this extreme heat and humidity and be more comfortable for the nesters and babes.   Maybe it will keep them in their next boxes for a bit.  Sure hope the rain and winds reach here over night!

So glad that all are accounted for at Don Mills!      And Linn's little ones too!

Finally___FOOD

"I'm so happy, I flipped and can't get up!"

Trying

Success!!



A nice full crop!

 
Yes! I was getting worried about this little 'un.  Good mama finally  fed her/him!  I was more worried about hydration than anything else.  The dinner looked pretty fresh.  Do they usually bring the whole, unprepared prey into the nest box as B did just now?    Nice job of documenting all of this feeding!     

Egg, don't see a pip yet but then again, yesterday I looked at the eggs and saw no pips either when suddenly----it just Hatched!!!

Question:  Do you remember last year when A and B's eggs that did not hatch, just sort of disintegrated?  Looking on cam, it appeared they softened and became mushy.   My question is, Unity's egg was laid somewhere around the end of March or very early April, and yet it appears to be still intact.  This egg is almost three months old!   Any ideas why it has held up?

Call him "Scooter"!! What a mover!

Smart too!  Seeking the shade!   You can see how much he/she has grown in just 24 hours!

Catching some rays

I don't see any cracks in the egg. However, I do see lots of detail in Beauty's feathers and in the eyas' downy fluff. (Or is that fluffy down?)

A precious picture!

[MAKfalcon (MAK):]

MAKfalcon (MAK): FYI anyone wanting to see Donna-Due to heat, Amtrak has slowed down trains so she will not be arriving until 7 or later

Link:
http://twitter.com/MAKfalcon/statuses/215552481520918528

I think that thought went through my head earlier today!  I know trains!    And I was in a 95 degree classroom today!  Yep,that is what it said!
 Hope Donna arrives safe and sound. I would love to meet her sometime while she is here.  And I'm "...out for summer"...except for the other job.   The heat is bad, so hope she arrives safe and sound.

Donna got to Rochester OK and was with MAK heading to BS about an hour ago.

Welcome to Donna!  You  arrived at exciting time!  I'd love to meet you! 

[MAKfalcon (MAK):]

MAKfalcon (MAK): FYI anyone wanting to see Donna-Due to heat, Amtrak has slowed down trains so she will not be arriving until 7 or later

Link:
http://twitter.com/MAKfalcon/statuses/215552481520918528

I think that thought went through my head earlier today!  I know trains!    And I was in a 95 degree classroom today!  Yep,that is what it said!
 Hope Donna arrives safe and sound. I would love to meet her sometime while she is here.  And I'm "...out for summer"...except for the other job.   The heat is bad, so hope she arrives safe and sound.

!!! All of the boys and girls are doing great!
June 19, 2012 - Toronto - Don Mills

Mark Nash Reports:

June 19th - 2012
It would seem that for the next few days during this heat wave and this oppressive humidity that our for best friends will continue to our cars air conditioning and a steady supply of Advil - (pretty typical for most of us at this time of year anyway)

Despite the heat wave and humidity reaching 36 plus degrees C - (over 95 degrees F for us old imperial folks), with the combined help of the many supporters, local volunteers, the great Harlequin staff and the CPF fledge watch team, we had a pretty good idea on the whereabouts of the young fledglings positions throughout the entire day and evening. They didn’t escape our view for very long! Ha Ha, we’re good!!!

Most notability today given that so much has been happening with the “kids�, they have learned - (at least in part) what shade is all about and have hiding out in some shady spots to get out of the blistering sun. Like most all young children (and some adults I have met) they have limited attention spans and for the fledglings, even hiding out in the shade to col off is short lived.

Now that all of the fledglings are actually flighted, they are back together again and have been off and on all day. Several time Quest came in with food (mostly to the nest building roof top) and we watched all of the fledglings come together and mom fed them beak to beak. Quite a tender family moment for sure!! * See photos

While Amora is still not as confident as her tow other siblings in their flight, by the end of the day she was taking some very short flights from roof top to roof top between 220 and 225 roofs.

Mira and Blaze on the other hand are rocking!! Actually scary given that they are building up allot of speed (and still 50% of their landings are terrible)!! Learn by experience!

This is typically the time that they end up sometimes crashing into stuff (very hard) unable to operate the “air-brakes� proficiently enough to stop them in time. Lets hope that they settle down. This time is like the 16 year kid, just got his drivers licence and the keys to the parents car for the first time,, ONLY the car is a Porch!

On three occasions today when the fledglings were hiding out in the shade and couldn’t be seen, Quest was back into the nest box almost appearing to be pinning for babies again. While she didn’t actually lay down, she just stood upright gazing out into the airspace.
(Maybe she was actually thinking and wondering when all this stress is going to be over and have a quiet house - back to herself again)?

All of the birds were noticeably very hot and panted all day trying to cool off and get oxygen. I really felt sorry for them as both adults really struggled for the mosts of he day to hold their altitude in this air.

Later on the in the late afternoon and early evening, it got a little cooler (but don’ kid yourself, not by much), but enough to given the birds some decent air and less direct sun to do some flying around. Still bad landings, and allot of shortness of breath, all three fledglings were airborne playing some short “catch me if you can games�, and “tag your it�. Lot so rests and more food.

By the end of the day, all of the fledglings were back on the nest building in various places all in view.

Given by what I have seen today and their activities and ability to both hold their altitudes and able return back to the nest ledge itself (and all of the upper roof elevations), we can conclude our full time dawn to dusk fledge watch.

We will remain watching with daily spot checks but must depend on you to carry on with periodic checks to ensure that they are not getting in trouble. They can still run into challengers as they investigate their new world and get trapped behind glass balconies and run into windows that may bring them to the ground.

We must also remember that despite the fact that the juveniles are now flighted, they are solely dependant on the adult parents for food, support and protection for the next 30 to 60 days until they are trained to hunt, shown what to hunt, then able to successfully hunt, they will still be returning to the nest box / ledge and the nest building roof top for security and their parents protection. This is still their home, and at this point the only one that they know!

We are counting on your support (as are the birds) for your support to further watch out for them.
We are, and remain on our mobile cell phones on a 24/7 call and not too far away on yet another fledge watch at the Scarborough Yellow pages nest site where another group of hatchlings is only just now starting to take their first flights.

Stay tuned…………………………

Posted on June 20, 2012 3:01 pm
Observation for Toronto - Don Mills

An exciting yet sobering report from Mark.  Despite the excitement of today with our own hatch in ROC, I did check in our Quest and Kendal and babes. And our RM and T at Sheraton Centre!    Keeping all in my thoughts.  You at CPF are awesome!