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We are very glad to have you hear Moose! Its great having local experts to bring additional perspective. Is your home close to their nest? How fun to see them over you house!

Moose, you were right! Here is the (partial) report from the website:

April 10, 2010 - Lead Monitor Audrey Gamble reports: Once again Madame X has laid four eggs in the Sheraton Hamilton nest. The wet and cold weather has kept her very close to the scrape all week, and it was cold and windy up there again today, but at 13:35 she left the nest and let us have a good look the four big brown bruisers in the image at left! What pulled her off the nest was the need to chase the juvenile Peregrine, who is still hanging around.

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Hello: Thank you kindly for the warm Welcomes as tis a treat being apart of this community. I'm up the road sort of say highway(only 10minutes away) as I'm up in the Niagara Escarpment. Just past weekend on the 10th myself and better-half were driving out of Hamilton coming up to the Sheraton Hotel when I caught sight of the immature Peregrine an I'll say it's one of the girls as there were 3 born last year. I'd be willing to say she even stays nearby as she is well fed as there is a good food source near to Madame X & Surge a park full of pigeons across the street and east 1/2 a block. Madame X is in her 12th year an a pretty girl as well as big which all 4 of last years brew. The joke last year was in fact the size of the chicks as all the girls were indeed porkers probably behind a little in flight school. Ok of the girls Strathcona, Durand, Glieg (lightest 1st) and Glieg well she was our heaviest chick ever banded here in Hamilton and well I'm thinking it's her Glieg hanging around. Glieg was actually the last to fly and she was a darker bird of the girls with pale feet compared to Durand hers were easy to see yellow. This bird I saw was chased off by Surge and this young girl was close in size and dark appearance hard really too look long enough as also in the middle of 3 lanes of traffic going out of the city.
Enclosed is a photo I archived last year of the two heaviest girls themselves with Glieg closest and Durand yellow feet.
Thanks again .
Enjoy

Ahhhh, what a great shot of those two beauties from last year. Thanks, Moose, for your report of your recent visit to Hamilton and sighting of the juvie who may possibly be Glieg. Did you know there is a juvie hanging around the nest at Montreal? If you are interested in reading about it, here is BCAW's thread on it:

Yes very large and well fed as when this shot was snapped they'd only been hatched 6 weeks.
This picture is Glieg (back to you) and Strathcona (lightest of the girls and first to fly). Strathcona is probably saying there's nothing to it really just jump and flap your wings. Other funny story is Strathcona actually nudged the middle girl Durand off the ledge for her first flight.

Nest exchange.

Hi Moose.

I was thinking the same thing, Susan! Somebody needs to go up there & pull that weed! (Just kidding)

We have to wait till banding time. they clean the ledge then. I remember the year they had Tim Hortons coffee cups and all

Later in the day.
You know that weed has grown a lot.

It's even blooming.

April showers well that's all we had last week here was rain and this week mainly sun and warm temperatures so the weed grows. It's actually bigger then last year as I recall one day last years chicks moved over towards the weed and they knocked it over before the mountain climber removed it. Yeah it's a site to see him come down to collect the chicks for banding and see Madame X dive bombing him but he'll have to show up early this year as you all mentioned it'll block vision.
First shot tis Surge getting dive bombed by Madame X

Surge 10 seconds later saying you missed me!

She has him trained real well as he's always near the nest.

Welcome, Moose

Hello and thank you for the Welcomes.
Well the weed has bloomed now; where our couple have enjoyed a week long of sunny weather it's about to change as rain and cooler temps. for the weekend starting soon will roll in here. Both Madame X and Surge are quite hardy since they stay here all year round.