Canada Falcons: All but those hatched in Rochester

[carly]

Female is home now.  She has such a fierce look at times.

[Kris G.]

Female is home now.  She has such a fierce look at times.

Sad she’s not banded...we’ll never know what her history is.

[carly]

Both back again.

[Kris G.]

One on ledge.  Finally see a scrape here

[carly]

Yes they've been quite busy the past few days.  Wish we knew who they were...I convinced myself it was Stormin but I"m not so sure anymore.  Tiago and he are similar in many ways so I may be wrong on that one.   Perhaps once they get some eggs, Linda can go up and peek through the peep hole and get his ID for certain.

This was earlier this morning while I was doing laundry:

[Carol P.]

It saddens me to do this, but life goes on in the falcons world.

The new pair are on the nest ledge. The male, hopefully Stormin, is at the far end of the ledge and the female is behind the nest tray. I would not be surprised if she lays an egg back there. Looks like a nice, big pellet in the center of the nest tray.

Be safe Rhea Mae and Tiago!  

[carly]

He is so close but the second you zoom the photo, it's just pixel city 

[carly]

First egg for Stormin and Chaos arrived around 8.32 am this morning.  We had to wait a bit to get a clear enough photo of it and Linda managed to get one to prove that indeed an egg had arrived.  About 10 minutes later Stormin came in - for like the 6th time since I woke up this morning - and he was one excited tiercel I'm sure!  

Linda's photo and announcement:

April 4 2018
Toronto Sheraton
Egg # 1 Has Arrived. This image is dark, it's sitting at the base of her tail.

[carly]

The happiest tiercel in the GTA this morning.  He just came in with food for her and ran over to greet his egg.  As far as we know this is his first egg since he lost the Canada Square site in 2014.

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[Kris G.]

I’m so happy for Stormin! ❤️

[Carol P.]

 

[carly]

End of day 3 and still no second egg for Chaos and Stormin.  Think that new female spotted at the King nest site might be a factor but without the cam there working we can't tell what's going on.  

[Kris G.]

End of day 3 and still no second egg for Chaos and Stormin.  Think that new female spotted at the King nest site might be a factor but without the cam there working we can't tell what's going on.  

That’s too bad.  I was really hoping for Stormin to finally have a family this year.

[carly]

End of day 3 and still no second egg for Chaos and Stormin.  Think that new female spotted at the King nest site might be a factor but without the cam there working we can't tell what's going on.  

That’s too bad.  I was really hoping for Stormin to finally have a family this year.

Me too, I'm really annoyed about this.  I wonder if it's not Ivy since she knew about the site.  It has no nest box so it's not an obvious site like Sheraton is but I guess it would be naive to think others haven't been scoping it out over the years.   Any way I hope it sorts itself out and they get back on track.