!!! No nesting activity or territorial grins around??
May 02, 2010 - Scarborough - Bell
CPF Postmaster Reports:
With allot of excitement and anticipation of a nest in the making over the past five months, we are saddened to report the unidentified resident (off again - off again) peregrines have flown the coop! After months of daily and weekly sightings of an adult pair of peregrines hanging around the Bell building and were observed going in and out of the old hack box, it appears that they flown the coop. The last three weeks have been a bust as they say, in that we have not seen either of the adults on site for the past three weeks. The usual roosts around the territory (including that of the huge water tower at Warden and Eglinton) has also been void of any peregrine sightings during this same time frame.
Today, and for the last week, we have seen crows, pigeons, Sharpies, and now Kestrels on the building roof top, but no signs of any peregrine activity at all.
We can only speculate that the peregrines were either sub adults not biologically ready to produce, moved to another more attractive nest location, or that they simply failed at bonding & courtship with one another. Remember that the female does not accept every male suitor that comes a calling!
We will continue to keep a very close eye on the old hack box that drew their attention in the first place.
Stay tuned……….