ON / Etobicoke - Bloor & Islington / 2008-21

[carly]

#1 bird still in his tree and not budging it seems.  Second male fledged at 6:05 this morning while I was in the shower and he had a great first flight and is now on top of the building - right above the ledge with the nestbox where mom and dad perch.  So he scored some food for that feat!!

Hoping our other guy will try to take flight and leave the tree, Bruce say he's really hungry and was observed trying to eat the bark on the tree this morning 

I'm working today but I'll be out to check on them when I can.  Oh and the next tower over is putting a swing stage up to wash windows during a fledging period...should be fun watching people get attacked this morning...hope they brought helmets 

[bcbird]

Thanks, Carly, that makes sense.   

[maggieblue]

Great fledge report.  Thanks Carly

[carly]

Really? The parents won't feed him, just because he is too low?  

They don't want the juvies to think it's ok to be so low, they are young and vulnerable to predators - those 2 crows could have hurt him because he can't fly well enough to get away from them or he could panic and fly into traffic or a building.  They will alternately try to lure him out with food or leave him alone a bit so he might get hungry enough to try again.  If they went down to him, he would think it's cool to be down there - alot of juvies die the first year by going down too low or to ground to feed and a predator gets them.

[carly]

Well hopefully he will get hungry enough to take flight and try to go back higher.  If he comes down they will rescue him otherwise he may make it to a higher area - like a rooftop then the parents will feed him.  That's what screech did last year.  The parents generally stay out of sight for a few hours to get them to fly home but about now one of them is no doubt flying around with food in talon trying to lure him out. 

The guys said he'll be safe in the tree, he just won't get fed. 

[allikat]

So now what happens Carly?

I guess he will have to get some courage and try to fly.  Hope all is well!
Good luck little guy!

[bcbird]

Really? The parents won't feed him, just because he is too low?

[carly]

When I left he was still in the tree.  There are people there until sunset so maybe they will post something later.  The parents won't go down that low to feed him.  They did fly in the air with food in their talons to try and get him to fly out and follow them but he didn't budge.  So he wasn't fed and fledged at about 8:30 so he must be hungry. 

He is in a tree but on the lower branch.  I'm not good at judging distance but he's about the same height up as Screech was last year when she landed on the Bell building - only about 2 stories up which is low for a falcon.

[bcbird]

Carly, do you know yet whether he made it out of the tree, or was fed there?

[carly]

The neck is better, my nose is all sunburnt though...I could give Rudolph a run for his money 

I had it easy, the lady at the house brought me a nice lawn chair, some water and some cookies  .  It's the CPF staff that do all the hard work - really they do.  One man, Bruce has been there pretty much from dusk to dawn for the past 3 days.  He doesn't go home for dinner like me and get to relax. Honestly I don't have the stamina, I wilt like a flower but these guys are there at about 4:45 in the morning and stay until the sun goes down.  And they will go to all the other fledge watches in the city and do it all over again.

I wanted to climb the tree and get him out, he looked so forlorn there and hungry too - he hasn't eaten today at all.  But he sure is a beautiful bird, closest I've ever been to a juvie. 

[bcbird]

Bayley posted two good pictures of the little fledgling on the CPF site, one of him sitting on the plastic owl on top of the condos and one of him in a tree - where he spent the day and I was down below in a lawn chair in a strangers yard watching him!  That's the job the rookies get 

He sat on that branch with his talons clamped to it while 2 jays kept trying to attack him.  They harassed him on and off all afternoon while I sat there and kept an eye on him and that's how I left.  I think mom knows where he is because I saw her circling way up high in the sky above the tree but he's down too low.  Hopefully he will make a move out of there soon as high winds and rain are coming tonight.

The other one will no doubt fledge cause i'm not there now

How is your "falcon neck" today, Carly?  That job is probably tougher than you make it sound.  Thanks for giving us this report.

[carly]

Yay..I see mom on cam beak feeding the other 2.  She must not want them to go out especially with other one not in a really safe place and rain coming.  I love falcon parents, they are just the best 

[eagle63_1999]

Quite the afternoon you spent Carly! Excellant!

[Pchemist]

that would give me heartburn, carly!  I sometimes envy those who get to see more than what I can on the cam, and other times am grateful I only have to read about stuff after the fact...

[carly]

Well of course we had first fledge today while I was on the subway to get there *sigh*, missed the first one again.  Number 2 male looks ready to go now too but I had to come home  - need to eat 

Bayley posted two good pictures of the little fledgling on the CPF site, one of him sitting on the plastic owl on top of the condos and one of him in a tree - where he spent the day and I was down below in a lawn chair in a strangers yard watching him!  That's the job the rookies get 

He apparently had a nice first flight to some lower condos, when I got there he was perched on the owl and then he jumped down and ran around the roof a bit.  Then he came flying through the 2 towers, turned and tried to gain height but missed the ledge and hit the glass - my heart skipped a beat!  Two other birds - not sure what kind were on his tail, parents swooped down and drove one into the glass and that one didn't come back up.  Our fledgling - I think it is Perry - flew up over the 4 lane traffic and I thought I saw him try to land on a roof but it was full of pigeons.  I ran around the building and by that time Bruce had located him in the tree. Two crows were on him and it's the screaming birds that alerted us all to him so we ran over, got permission to enter person's yard and crows fortunately left.

He sat on that branch with his talons clamped to it while 2 jays kept trying to attack him.  They harassed him on and off all afternoon while I sat there and kept an eye on him and that's how I left.  I think mom knows where he is because I saw her circling way up high in the sky above the tree but he's down too low.  Hopefully he will make a move out of there soon as high winds and rain are coming tonight.

The other one will no doubt fledge cause i'm not there now