The Canadian Peregrine Foundation

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Daily Updates - 1998

Friday, March 13
-- An interesting report from London: So far, there have been sightings of the female adult around the nest site. What is remarkable, evidently, is that it is the same female as last year. Apparently in previous years, the nesting peregrines have been different birds each year. Now we wait to see if the same male from last year will also stop by.

Thursday, May 28
We have now learned that the adult female at the Niagara Falls site has been identified as "Amelia Earhart", one of the hatchlings from 1996 from London. For an excellent photograph of the three chicks and one of the adults from the 1996 London nest, check out the Photo Gallery from the Niagara Falls page.

Friday, May 29
Amelia Earhart's mother has also now been found! Yes, it's been confirmed that the "adult female" who successfully raised three chicks in 1996 and then seemed to disappear has shown up in Mississauga. "Hazel" has chosen to take up with a younger male (an immature that is believed to be a local bird, although this has yet to be confirmed), and although there seems to be no eggs this year, we are hoping the pair will return next year to do some serious family planning.

Monday, June 8
Seamus Redmond reports: We were up to see our babies this evening. There were 4 eggs in the scrape, but we have only 3 chicks; the fourth egg is still in the nest tray, but is long past hatching. The parents are bringing food and leaving it; the chicks seem to be feeding on their own. They have grown considerably in the last few days; the largest one is starting to get some pin feathers on the wings.The mother flew in and perched above us on the building that we observe from (#1 London Place) and we can easily hear her calling; other than that there's not too much activity.
-- Apparently two of the chicks hatched on May 20, and the third on May 22, not the following week as we originally thought.

Friday, June 12
Seamus Redmond reports: All went well with the Banding in London Friday. We were able to band two of the chicks, one male, one female, the 2nd male was too far down the ledge to retrieve. The mother was quite anxious, but all settled down quickly.

Saturday, June 27
Shay Redmond reports: Mulder, our banded male chick has taken his first flight at 7:15 this morning and did very well. He ended up by staying the majority of the day on the roof of the building that the nest tray is on. He was parading around on the edge of the roof, when we arrived.
-- His sister Scully, was still on the nest ledge, but doing a lot of flapping and wandering up & down the ledge.
-- X, our unbanded chick, was doing some flapping but is still a little behind.
-- The parents flew in and around building a couple of times. We think they were trying to encourage Mulder to fly back to the nest tray. He wasn't particularly interested - but at 7:45 he did decide it was time to try flying again. He flew about a block and a half to our observation building, then circled back to the nest building. In the meantime Mom had come from somewhere to follow Mulder. It was as if she was there to help him if he ran into difficulties; she would fly below him and almost give him a boost. When he didn't land on the other building, Mom circled and seemed to be trying to guide him back to the nest building. They both perched on the rooftop on the North tower, (rather than the south tower, where the nest is) for about 10 minutes. Then Mulder was off again to the other building he had tried to land on before. This time he did and Mom landed with him - to make sure he was alright??? He was pretty tuckered, it was a lot more flying than we have seen on the first day of flight. The siblings were restless on the nest ledge with Dad watching close by. Some time later Mom had enough and flew and so did Dad from his perch. We wondered if they were trying to encourage Mulder to fly again - hopefully back to the nest tray.

Tuesday, June 30
Shay Redmond reports: One of our birds got killed to-day. Scully crashed into the Canada Trust tower and died instantly, the two males are still ok.

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