Other Peregrine Projects > Canadian Peregrines
ON / Etobicoke - Bloor & Islington / 2008-21
Alison:
Many thanks for the updates, Carly. It sounds as if things are very confusing at your site. I hope everything is okay with Angel.
Please keep us updated. I do miss being able to watch the cam at this nest site.
carly:
Where to start? After our rooftop visit last night - I am more perplexed than before. After last Wednesday - things have changed alot here. It's been a bit like a ghost town as far as peregrines go.
We stood on the rooftop last night for an hour until the male showed up, he basically stared at us staring at him for awhile and then he took off. He did call for his mate but no one came. No eggs in the box but we couldnt' see over the lip of the box..safe to say that after the past few days there is nothing as no one was guarding the site at all.
First time in a week I saw them together this morning, they had a quickie on the condo and then she went to eat - saw her backside and saw ...brown mixed in with the black?? That was a shock. Both flew off in separate directions again and that was that. Saw one or the other today but never together at the same time and other times - the site was desserted. It's been that way since mid week last week.
The male looks like Jack to me, did a photo comparison and his stripes, everything lines up and he had a black band but couldn't read the numbers. He's pretty big when you stand across from him I must say. Female, she never showed up in the 1.5 to 2 hours we were there until we hit the ground again. Then she showed up alone and when I did see her -I thought she's not my girl.
It's like everything stopped suddenly and they show up to eat, have a quickie and go. Mathew says it's strange at his site too..so we keep watching.
The Peregrine Chick:
Sun-Life Financial Centre
3250 Bloor Street West, Etobicoke, Ontario
webcam: www.peregrine-foundation.ca/Web_Cams/Etobicoke/index.htm
website: Sun-Life Centre Peregrine Home Page
The nest is on the east tower, on the southeast face of the building on an 18th floor ledge.
Resident Pairs & Offspring
* more info hopefully coming soon
carly:
I've had reports of sightings of possibly up to 4 falcons in the territory including one report of two tiercels having an aerial battle last week further in the territory from a long time CPF watcher.
Tomorrow after work Frank and I will be going to a nearby building to the top (with special permission) to see if we can get a look at the birds and the nestbox. Some strange things have been going on the past few days and we're not sure now if Jack is at both sites or we have a new male possibly. I personally saw three falcons in the territory on Friday and thought I was mistaken until I went to the sportsman show and learned of the other reports.
Might be nothing but you can't ignore reports from separate people especially when they are seasoned birders..unlike myself who is an amateur! I only watch the nestsite and can't see what is going on in the rest of the territory so I wouldn't even realize if something happened several blocks out.
carly:
Angel has spent the past two days either in the nestbox or velcroed to the side of it. I can't see her when she's in the box but Jack has been coming in to visit and then I can hear them both chupping so I know she's in there. It's usually now she starts laying her eggs so we will see...well we won't see cause the computer needs fixing to view the cam.
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