MISC. CANADIAN NESTS ~ 2012

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:58 pm

Yep, this is the spot for the article, KF. :thankyou

SusanE · **Posted:** Sun Apr 08, 2012 7:50 am

Hurrah, for Marlene and Fred. They must have a good "bird's eye" view of the ledge.

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:11 pm

I'm glad to hear that Milton is doing well. :girlluv:

bev. · **Posted:** Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:01 am

Glad Milton is O.k. also.

who is TRuss again.

SusanE · **Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:03 pm

Thanks for all those updates, carly. :thumbup

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64773

Thanks so much, Carly!!!

SusanE · **Posted:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:36 pm

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:28 am

For some reason, I can't get to your link, carly. :egg16:

Tried Chrome and Firefox and neither would work.

Elaine · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:19 pm

Here is another link to the falcon story in Moncton, New Brunswick. The link to to CBC News in Moncton:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns ... lcons.html

This should work.

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue Apr 24, 2012 1:50 pm

You are not an idiot! Thanks, carly & Elaine. Hope they can get a cam going.

SusanE · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:48 am

What a shame. These kinds of reports always make me nervous for obvious reasons. :nailbite:

Let's hope the other two hatch.

SusanE · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 9:11 am

SusanE · **Posted:** Sat May 05, 2012 8:03 am

Here a hatch .. there a hatch .. everywhere a hatch hatch. :egghatch:

Thank you, carly, for all the news.

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue May 08, 2012 9:03 am

Update from site - Toronto Residential

May 4, 2012 - Incubation continues - 2 eggs?

At one point there were 3 eggs being tended to as confirmed by multiple observations. At the current time it appears we now only have 2 eggs and incubation continues.

At other sites in Toronto hatches have already taken place, and no doubt in the near future we will have hatches here too.

SusanE · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 8:31 am

Great news! I had checked this site yesterday, but the news wasn't posted yet. Thanks for checking, carly. :hithere:

kittenface · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2012 7:41 pm

4 falcon chicks to get birth certificates, of sorts
Four peregrine falcon chicks living under the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., will be named and banded Friday, according to volunteers keeping watch over the birds.

Gwen Gidge of the Canadian Peregrine Foundation Windsor Watch said her group originally thought only three of four eggs hatched. But the group learned Friday all four of the falcons, which are considered a species at risk, did hatch.

"The way [their mother] Voltaire had been standing on the nest box when she was feeding, we just couldn't see the fourth one until then," Gidge wrote in email to CBC News. "You can imagine how excited we were."

The baby birds are to be banded at 11:30 a.m. Friday. It is also likely volunteers and officials with the Ministry of Natural Resources will name the four chicks. Previously, volunteers named the mother and father birds, Voltaire and Freddy.

The falcons in Windsor have become a local sensation of sorts, since arriving nearly five years ago.

Past offspring from the pair have been named Windsor, Bridgette, Lady Gaga, Spitfire — after the city's OHL hockey team — and Lancer — after the university's athletic program.

Peregrine falcons are a species at risk in Canada.

CBC Windsor viewer Michael Evans captured video of Windsor's peregrine falcons at feeding time under the Ambassador Bridge.

Published on May 14, 2012 by mnime978
The days old Peregrine Falcon Chicks are fed by their mother in their nest under the Ambassador Bridge

SusanE · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2012 8:18 pm

The 2-minute mark.

kittenface · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 2:53 pm

Baby falcons get their dog tags

Windsor's latest brood of baby falcons was banded Friday in the shadow of the Ambassador Bridge where they were hatched.

Two male birds — Eddie and General Brock — and two female birds — Viper and Twitter — were taken from their nest, weighed, banded in a tent and safely returned.

The birds each had attached to their talons a black, metal, numbered Canadian Wildlife Services band and a similar silver U.S. Fish and Wildlife band. The names won’t appear on the band, but will be registered with the number in a database.

The birds, which have a mortality rate of between 80 and 90 per cent, will then be monitored. Peregrine falcons are a species at risk in Canada.

“We monitor them so if there is any trouble, we can go out and help them,” Marion Nash of the Canadian Peregrine Foundation said.

Nash played the part of the "villain" Friday. She rode up to the ledge in the bucket of a cherry picker. Once there, she distracted the parents as another volunteer took the birds to and from the nest.

This was the third consecutive year falcon parents Freddie and Voltaire nested and hatched chicks on a ledge of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont.

2VIDEO"S HERE: Marion Nash sure does have a way with words :egg11:

SusanE · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 3:35 pm

Thanks, KF. I wish they would say what numbers are on the black bands.

kittenface · **Posted:** Sat May 19, 2012 2:21 pm

SusanE wrote:

Thanks, KF. I wish they would say what numbers are on the black bands.

Well its not numbers but we're getting closer as far as ID's
Windsor's new Peregrine falcon chicks named and tagged

The crowd loved the name Viper, given to the first female tagged with a blue anklet
as well as the name General Brock, given to the male with a red tag.

The littlest bird, Eddie, will wear a green tag and was named after an employee at TD Bank, one of the sponsors of the event.
But some in the crowd grumbled about Twitter, the name given to the second female marked with a yellow band.

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