June 02, 2016 - Mississauga - Executive CentreTracy Simpson Reports:
Bruce Massey attended the MEC site today to drop off the rescue carrier and to do some more work on assessing the young boys. When he arrived he could only see Olimar up on the nest ledge flashing his red tape. He was looking good with little down left to go and quite active on the ledge. For a while the only bird in view was Olimar and Josally was no where to be seen. Now we know at MEC that one of the favorite games the little ones love to play is in and out of the window well where the nest box sits. Often when we can’t see a young one that’s exactly where it is. Not this time!
Bruce followed the actions of the adults as he did a walkabout of the four MEC towers. He was getting a response from Midnight around the base of MEC 1 so he set up across the street to watch. He brought out his scope and as he was panning around he got lucky and found Josally in the top of a tree out front MEC 1. He was settled in there for a while but was getting anxious to go home. Given the amount of down on this little man it was clear that his “fledge” was most likely an accident. Josally tried to get a little higher in the tree and decided that this wasn’t fun anymore, it was time to go home. He took a flight out over Robert Speck Parkway and maintained his height for a bit but was way too low for the nest ledge. He flumped into the south side of MEC 1 and fluttered down to the ground. Bruce was over in a shot and Josally gave him a good chase before surrendering to his rescuers towel.
Thank you to Bruce for the great rescue today, the first of the 2016 fledge watch season. Mark will be releasing Josally tonight to the roof of the nest building where he can continue to gain strength and confidence for the days to come.
Thanks again to Bruce and Mark for the great team effort.
!!! Beachville peregrines seem to be very excited and happy about their new peregrine nest box and tower!
May 23, 2016 - International, National and Local NewsMark Nash Reports:
May 23rd - 2016
Some additional photos of Joe and Virginia from Lucie that she was able to send to us from the UK where she is currently on vacation.
Have a great holiday Lucie!
It almost looks like the resident male “Joe” is trying to convince his mate “Virginia” that he did this all himself,, (build the new home and put up the tower just for her) :-)
While I don’t think that she’s buying it,, she has obviously approved and decided to lay her eggs in it.
Hopefully, we will be able to see just how many hatchlings the pair have produced as soon as they get large enough. .
Congratulations are in order for a successful hatch!
Stay tuned……………….
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!!! Both resident adults still very much on site, on and off the various ledges, and still very protective of their home,, but no eggs anywhere to be found!
June 02, 2016 - Toronto - King StreetMark Nash Reports:
Tuesday May 31st - 2016
A big thank you to the Dream management group and their engineering staff for allow me access to several of their buildings that allowed me a opportunity to get a 360 degree view of the entire upper elevation of the 18 King street nest building. After receiving a flurry of phone calls from our good friends at the Solar Group, the organization that has been supporting the CPF for almost 20 years with their equipment and staff that allows the CPF to access the upper ledges of 18 King Street to do the extraction of the young hatchlings for banding,, (and the same group that does all of the window washing on many of the other buildings that host active peregrine nest sites).
Last week, the Solar window washers were aggressively stooped and dive-bombed by the King Street pair as they attempted to wash the windows on the east side of the 18 King Street nest building. The green light was given to go ahead with the buildings window washing as there has been no indication of any incubation activity on the CPF web camera this season.
For the most parts, during their window washing activities on the South, West, and North parts of the building, the resident peregrines although still very much on site and quite visible, paid little to no attention to the window washers. It wasn’t until they got to the upper east side that the peregrines let loose with an on-slot of attacks and forced them away from the east elevation. Solar had to abandoned their efforts to continue and departed the site.
So, I spent the better part of the afternoon scanning the entire upper elevations of the nest building and ALL of the ledges in an effort to find the eggs that was reported by Solar, but no eggs were observed. The resident adult female was although once again laying down on north end of the nest ledge in camera view,, but again, no eggs were present.
I can only surmise that the resident pair (which we have confirmed to be the Erin and Stormin), are simply territorial and still protecting their home as we would expect. Remembering that hormones still control most every action and its still breeding season!
I took allot of photos of ALL of the ledges on both sides of the building so I could review in detail once on the computer, and sadly, there were no eggs to be found.
