Other Peregrine Projects > Canadian Peregrines
ON / Etobicoke - Bloor & Islington / 2008-21
The Peregrine Chick:
'Tis the time of the year when fledglings, and therefore future rivals, start moving greater and greater distances ... these kinds of things happen pretty much everywhere. Even though Chinook & Mistral (2007), Vesper (2009) and Isis-Kali (2010) weren't gone for long, it is one of the reasons I try to put them back in the nestbox and slowly/quietly re-release them. Hopefully they don't rush out of the box but rather are sort of back where Mom/Dad last saw them.
Not sure where or how Mercedes was released, maybe not so easy to access the nestsite at this time of the year without causing problems for the adults/sibs ...
bcbird:
Your reporting is never dull, Carly. You sure have the drama at that site!
Thank goodness Mom was talked into taking little guy back. It would be nice to think that Mercedes perhaps had Dad looking after him during his absence.
Hope things calm down a little from now on.
bev.:
I am so happy that Mercedes is back Carly. :-* :-* With some good feeds form mom , he will right in no time.
carly:
So we are back to three boys again. Mercedes actually turned up within minutes of Jack 2 days ago but it was such a chaotic event and at one point I thought perhaps that one of Jack's other 'sons' had followed him here from his other territory so I wasn't sure what I was seeing. Luckily I had witnesses who were just as perplexed as I was... ::)
I won't go into the harrowing details but it involved a mother not recognizing her son after being gone for almost 2 weeks...we won't mention what she tried to do to him but it wasn't pretty! Fortunately his brothers knew who he was and rescued him from mom and a bit of smooth talking by Jack seemed to calm her down. At the time it happened so fast and falcons were flying everywhere, one was trying to kill one it seemed so I wasn't really sure what the heck was going on so I waited a few days to scope out the situation!
Mercedes seems to be a bit behind in skills than his two brothers. While they are out trying to hunt, he seems to be sitting near mom and crying for food nonstop since his return..and I mean nonstop!.
Hopefully he will catch up soon as the other two are moving closer to dispersal with each day and spend a lot of time flying, playing and chasing pigeons together!
I feel bad for Mercedes as he seems to be on his own and just hanging out with mom now while the other two are going farther out and exploring. other than the reunion 2 days ago, I've not seen three in the air together since then..two together over on another building and little guy velcroed to mom.
I wonder if he was with Jack the entire time or if he was somewhere in a situation and Jack was watching over him as he wasn't seen at his other site the entire time either. The last 2 days I've seen jack here alot again, back to his old routine.
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: bcbird on July 05, 2010, 16:14 ---Great reporting Carly.
I hope you find that three boys are still around, not just two.
It has been very interesting hearing your reports of Jack and his families.
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Yes! :D
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