!!! Great Day in London; Resident Male Identified!!
May 03, 2012 - London - TD Tower
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Today Frank and I were out in London visiting the resident pair and delivering Project School Visit to two great schools. After our first school, we made our way down to Wellington St. where we could see the female sitting on the edge of the nest tray. Once we got into position on Wellington, we noticed that the female had left our sight and the male was now on the ledge. The male remained in full view giving us ample opportunity to see his band number in good light. The male’s recovery band is solid black 16 over V and he is Dougal hatched in 2008 at the 18 King St E nest site. Later in the afternoon, Frank witnessed a third peregrine entering the territory. A subadult female had flown over towards the nest building and Dougal went out and met her in the air. He stooped and contacted with her a few times and there was also a talon lock before he escorted her out of the area. The entire time that the battle was going on, the resident female stayed on the tray out of sight. With the interloper gone, Dougal returned and the pair spent the afternoon in and out of the nest ledge and taking time out to mate twice. It was a rare moment to see the pair together as the tray was rarely left unattended. We have yet to determine if there are any eggs in the tray and how many but that news will be coming very shortly. We did get a few looks at the legs of the female and have confirmed our earlier observations that she has a Black over Red recovery band on her left leg and a silver USFW band on her right. We will hopefully identify her shortly and finally put a name to a face!!
