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carly:
Apparentely they do have 3 hatches here.  I think there was alot of confusion during the territorial battles and I've noticed some of the earlier posts have vanished.  I think what may have happened is that they posted the updates from Port Colbourne under Burlington Lift Bridge by accident a few times and as there were battles going on at both places and both sites have new couples..well things got crazy!!!.  That's how I got confused too just reading them...lol  ;D

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carly:
Thank you Alison for the background on Cirrus, obviously her papa brought her up very well!  I've made up my own ending for Mercury after reading your story. 

After losing his beloved snowball and expending so much energy raising their children, Mercury thought to himself...do I really want to do this all over again at my age?  Maybe I will go south this year and find myself a nice place somewhere in the tropics where I can roost just like snowball and I had talked about doing someday when the kids were grown, where the food is plentiful and the view of the ocean is peaceful and where I can fly free  ;)

Liz:
Ah, the Burlington Bridge.  I took drivng lessons in the winter, and one thing we did repeatedly was drive over that icy, wet bridge.  Good practice for Winnipeg winters!  I can see the structure being perfect for PFs, but never understand why they'd want to nest in a place with so much human traffic.  :) 

I hope all is okay with them. 

Alison:

--- Quote from: carly on May 19, 2009, 20:07 ---With a huge thank you once again to Juanita, we have some history on the new adult female at the Burlington Bridge nest site..  Black K over Green 83 was hatched in Dayton Ohio USA in 2006 from a nest site on the At&T building.  Her name is Cirrus.

--- End quote ---

No information is given on her parents, but if she was hatched at the AT&T building in Dayton in 2006 her parents would have been Mercury, much loved Dayton patriarch, and his mate Snowball. We lost Snowball on May 19, 2007, when she and Mercury had three chicks in the nest ranging in age from 8-10 days. She was never found. Mercury, already seventeen years old, continued raising the three chicks on his own; they all fledged successfully. Sadly, Mercury did not return in 2008.

bev.:
do they think they will renest or is ti too late???
thanks Carly. I have been looking for info on this site.

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