Hot Day…Adults Play
May 15, 2012 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Frank Butson Reports:
Canada Square report, Tuesday, 20120515.
I had a lovely two hours today watching the peregrines.
When I arrived there was no-one about but twenty minutes later Haven popped onto the south side of Rio-Can, Three minutes later she flew west and then returned over 53 Division and onto the nest ledge on Canada Square. Several minutes after that she flew off the nest over Canada Square, over RC, over the gold building at the corner of Eglinton and Duplex, to the west side of Canada Square where she hovered at a window three floors down from the nest ledge. She surprised the heck out of the chappie at the window!!! I wonder if she saw him as a *human near her nest* and *warned* him off? She did not actually touch the glass and her flight to the window, although swift, was not perilously so. That done she flew out (away from the side of the building) then up and back to the nest ledge. Two minutes later she walked to the edge and then disappeared again to the scrape.
Then, finally, Stormin flew in and Haven came to greet him (chuk chuk) and they both disappeared before Stormin flew out and onto the last *upright/wall* on Canada Square. Fifteen minutes later Haven left the nest and flew to the east side of Canada Square and did a turnabout over the top of the building, down the west side and through the gap to the condos across Yonge. A minute after that Stormin left his perch and headed south over the black building above the TTC garage, did a quick turn and flew to the north end of Canada Square and then to the condos.
Haven came back again, flying up Duplex, north of the apartment building into the gap over the YE Centre back down Duplex, circled Canada Square and then over 53 Div. She reappeared and flew to the railing on the balcony below the nest where she did a balancing act as she turned to face outwards. She then flew out over the black building, around 2180 Yonge, over Canada Square and landed on the south face of RC.
Six minutes later she flew to the top of the black building where I saw her join Stormin, who was eating. She said thanks for the meal and promptly took the food from him. He stood there looking at her for a minute then walked a few steps away and cleaned his beak on the side of the building. Four minutes later Stormin flew to the nest ledge.
When Haven had finished eating some eight minutes after Stormin left she flew east, turned and went straight to the nest. Shortly thereafter she left the nest ledge, flew over Canada Square, over Eglinton and over RC three or four times before returning to the nest ledge and disappearing. Two minutes later Haven was off the nest ledge again, flew south and then back over Canada Square with Stormin. The two of them then flew to one another, with one another and away from one another for the next eight minutes. They were all over Canada Square, RC, the apartment building on Duplex before Haven flew back to the nest ledge and Stormin flew onto the roof. After a while Stormin flew to the RC building and sat for three minutes then flew to the Bell building across Yonge where he settled on the southwest corner and tucked into something. He flew east after that, then turned and came back to the nest ledge with a food parcel. Haven met him at the edge and flew off with the food parcel. She landed on top of the mast above the Hydro building at the corner of Duplex and Eglinton. When she had finished eating she flew to the nest ledge and Stormin flew to his roost on top if the fifth *upright/wall*. Then I left.
There was a tremendous amount of flying today and I am not too sure what it was all about but it was very good to see the two of them *play together* for a few minutes.
Lyn