Update on the North York Peregrines!!
May 18, 2012 - North York - Nest
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Bruce Massey has been watching a pair of peregrines in the Yonge and Finch area for the past several years but they have not raised any young nor settled on a territory. It would seem that things may have changed for the pair as they have been sighted now using the Trans America building at Yonge and Sheppard with great interest as well as the North American Xerox building at Yonge and Finch. What makes this new development so interesting is that there appears to be a change in the bonded pair as the female has been identified as a banded yet unnamed 2008 hatch from the Statler Tower building in Buffalo, New York and a full sister to the female who last winter lost her territory at MEC known as Infinity. She is currently bonded to an unbanded adult male and is seen most often in the Yonge and Sheppard area.
To this point, the female has always been an unbanded adult and this change may herald a new interest in nesting. Bruce believes that the pair did make an attempt this spring at the North American Xerox building but it failed to produce any young. Right now Bruce is seeing only one adult at a time and will continue to work on pinning down just where the pair is showing interest.