!!! A call to all falcon watchers in Brampton Ontario-we need your help!
April 03, 2011 - International, National and Local News
CPF Postmaster Reports:
With a huge thank you to Terry Osborne who first alerted us of peregrine activity in Brampton, Bruce Massey from the CPF has been visiting the Brampton area regularly to get a handle on the birds activity. After several visits, and just when he thought he had the peregrines pegged and showing great interest in a ledge on the Brampton courthouse, the same pair was later observed at yet another serious of buildings well over a km away from the Courthouse building itself. .
The adult male dawns a Balck over Green coloured leg band, (and a USFW coloured band on the other leg). The adult female is NOT banded at all. We have yet to identify the digits on the males band and still trying to identify the digits so we can trace his origin.
While this is very typical of a pairs behaviour when they are looking for “their ideal nest ledge”, (what ever that is), it does make things difficult for us to know where and when the peregrines have decided to set up house.
Usually, the adult male has already chosen several good nesting spots with in the territory that he has been holding and protecting over the past weeks and months, and he goes to great length to show his new mate all of the nifty places within his protected territory. While the male actually believes that it is “he” that decides and chooses the final nest ledge within the territory, it is actually his female mate that chooses the spot within the given territory that she will lay “her eggs” on and raise “her” family at.
Hey guys, does this sound at all familiar?
In any case, we need your support to help us identify the spot that the peregrine have finally chosen to settle in at, as we can never have enough eyes to skies given that the birds are very mobile and still activity looking.
We are interested in knowing where the peregrines have finally settled in, and asking for your help with observation reports of the birds being seen “regularly” on a ledge of a building.
Typically the peregrines will NOT be interested in the flat upper roof areas to nest, and instinctually prefer a suitable ledge BELOW the higher flat top elevations.
Please give us a call or send us an e-mail if you are seeing the peregrines spending any increased amount of time on the actual ledges of a building. Any photos are most welcomed, especially ones that we can use to identify the males band numbers!
The search begins!
Sincerely
CPF Postmaster