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Great report, Carly! Its hard for me to imagine those chicks being raised in a communication tower drum! Miss Fran sounds like a whopper - 220 grams bigger than her brothers!

Thank you, Carly for the Holcim banding news! Three bouncing boys! If you ever get a chance, please tell the folks at the Holcim plant how much Caspian's aunties and uncles in Ohio appreciate the wonderful care they take of the falcon family!

Great story Kittenface!! Thankyou for bringing it over here - I think her grandma Jersey (from Ohio) was watching over Miss Fran!

White and Yellow Both Fledge Gives New Meaning to Double Trouble
June 24, 2013 - Etobicoke - William Osler Tracy Simpson Reports:

The morning started out relatively calm for a falcon family with all four kids on the nest building just hanging out and attacking each other for fun and exercise. The bouncy crew made their way around the nest ledge until finally I had one on every corner of the building. I positioned myself as best I could and waited for food to be brought in. When Hurricane arrived with breakfast he drew three off their corners running and screaming and little blue took to the air. He chased Hurricane as best as he could but their is no catching this master of the air. Blue finally gave up and landed on the nest ledge with his screaming siblings knocking two of them over in the process. After a spirited battle over breakfast blue, red and white trundled off to the southwest corner for a nap and yellow opted for the northeast corner for himself. All was quiet until suddenly the threesome were bolted awake and in the air. Now only two of these kids are flighted and so I had to figure out which one was white and where was she going. I walked around the hospital twice and found her on the low roof of the medical center looking furious that she was now here instead of home. She bounced, ran and wailed for the next hour and a half in the heat but it didn’t bring the building any closer. Finally she decided to go for it, determined as she was, and she flew around to the south side of the hospital landing on the low mechanical roof. She didn’t stay long and her next flight went out and around the parking lot, a swoop back up to the south side and she grabbed the nest ledge with two talons. Flapping like mad she managed to haul herself up onto the ledge just as little blue came bombing in. He knocked her off of the ledge and she was airborne again. This time she made for the tower and landed very neatly in the back section. Triumph!! This was a perfect time for me to now get out of the heat for a brief moment and inside I went for a cool down. When I returned, I began to count heads again and could only find three. Grrrrr. I could hear this wee voice calling from the tower but could only see white, mom and dad. Wait… …at the very top!! Here stood little yellow and boy was he proud of himself!! Just then Hurricane flew in and the whole place erupted. Blue was in the air heading towards Hurricane, red came off the ledge and cirlced the roof while white stayed in her place in the tower and wailed. Hurricane headed for a landing next to yellow and in his excitement, yellow slipped off and began to fly north off of the property. Once again, demonstrating that this is very purposeful, Hurricane went above yellow and steered him down before he could leave the property and thus leave Dad’s protection. I ran over and found yellow sitting on the roof of a house in the residential neighborhood behind the hospital. Lovely. He ran screaming and jumping along the rooftop for the next hour before flying over to the next house. Now he was pretty tuckered out and when all else fails, take a nap in an eavestrough! Oh yes, with his butt squiggled down into the eavestrough of the house, he laid down on the roof and went to sleep. Good timing as white was quite determined to get home. She had been ramping up for the last half an hour and then without so much as a peep she was off. She headed straight for the nest ledge and like a pro, landed on the ledge with a splash and skid. I’m surprised any of these kids have tail feathers left with these sandpaper butt skid landing techniques but its working to get them home and that’s all that matters to them right now. Yellow was now awake and running the new rooftop that he found himself on. He decided to try another hopscotch to the roof next door and missed the edge. He was now sitting on a shed looking quite miffed. I raced over and met the homeowner in his driveway and we were off into the yard to see if we could help little man. He tried for the rooftop of the house from his position on the shed and narrowly missed an open, flaming and very hot BBQ. Phew. He ran between the house and the shed and forced me to make a very ungraceful and squishy rescue. Yellow was going home. After a cool down we took him upstairs for the release. When I took him out for his exam he was quite nasty for such a cute little thing and after trying to grab my face several times we got through the exam and all was well. He was unceremoniously released to the roof and chased me back a few steps before I was gone. You are Hurricane’s son for sure little one!!

Oh Boy...Midnight didn't have a successful hatch, so she must be on the move...Hope things are settled without any battles....
Thanks Carly!!

Wow, Carly, thanks for that information! I hope the falcons can work everything out, and play Nicely!! Personally, I think it would be awesome if Midnight made her way over to Sante's nest... He is such a tremendous tierce!!!

Yes, I thought about that after I had posted it.... But surely luck for Santes ladies has to change Sometime!! (I say hopefully)......... AND didn't I read somewhere that Sante's mate before Cass has recently been released from rehab? (sigh) I guess my plan wont work.....

Neat article about a juvie
Gwenis in Temporary Rehab in Michigan and Doing Great
August 29, 2013 - Windsor - Ambassador Bridge Tracy Simpson Reports:

A few days ago I received an email from Barb Baldinger in Michigan that Gwenis was found in Allen Park healthy and hopefully a little wiser after entering a pigeon trap in the hopes of an easy lunch. She was taken from the trap to a local rehabber where she checked out very well and should be released shortly after some rest, food and rehydration. Thank you to our friends Barb and Chris in Michigan for taking such good care of her and sharing her story with us. Hopefully Gwenis has learned that there really isn’t an “easy lunch” in these pigeon traps and steers clear!!

VERY NEAT STORY ABOUT A JUVIE
Miss Fran Spotted on Migration in Indiana!!
August 29, 2013 - Kitchener - Sun Life Centre
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Marty Jones, a birdwatcher in Indiana, posted this story about a juvenile peregrine that was passing through her area. It turns out that the juvenile is Miss Fran from the Kitchener CTV tower nest on her way south!! Her is what Marty wrote;

“I thought I’d share an interesting story about this juvenile peregrine falcon I photographed last week on August 24th at Goose Pond in Greene County, Indiana. The falcon had legs bands on both legs. The right leg band was all yellow and the all black left leg band read S over 29. With the band information, John Castrale, Non-game Bird Specialist with IDNR was able to help track down the origin of the falcon. It was found that when only 23 days old the bird was banded on May 30, 2013 at Kitchener Ontario (about 30 miles west of Toronto). The bird was determined to be a female and weighed just 866 grams on May 30th and she was one of three chicks in the nest. I calculated that this peregrine falcon flew approximately 552 miles and was only 106 days old when I photographed it on August 21st”

It shows how important the act of banding these juveniles is as we now have not only a resighting of Miss Fran on migration but we also know how far she has travelled, the route that she is taking and so much more. The bands will also readily identify her as part of a recovery program and protect her as she travels. Way to go Miss Fran and thank you to Marty Jones for this awesome story!!!

I just looked up Greene county, IN. Miss Fran is clear down in the southern third of Indiana! Way to go, girl!! Grandpa Flash and Grandma Jersey from Ohio would be proud of you!

that is just great news

I really need to hear these success stories. Great job by everyone there and a thank-you to man who found him

That did my heart good today, Carly.... Thank You for posting!

I am SO GLAD that Stormin is OK !