A New Nest in Town
April 14, 2012 - Stoney Creek
Sue McCreadie Reports:
On April 14th, Bill and I received a request from Mark Nash for our assistance in monitoring a new nest site in Stoney Creek. While Tracy Simpson was doing a site visit in Nanticoke on April 13th, she ran into a fellow who asked her what she was looking at. After a short conversation, he told her that there was a territorial pair nesting in a drum on a tall communications tower in Stoney Creek. On her return from Nanticoke, Tracy side tracked to this position and was able to confirm both the presence of the pair and that they were in fact involved in incubation activities. Sadly, Tracy could not stay long so Mark contacted Bill and I to do some follow up. We headed out and arrived on site around 2 pm. Unfortunately we did not find too much, other than there was definitely 1 PEFA visible. We were not able to see inside the drum. We walked around all the properties trying to get a site line inside but were unsuccessful. We decided to just wait it out. Eventually a PEFA kited in from South East and landed inside the communications tower. Even though we saw it land, we were not able to find it amongst the beams of the structure. As it started to rain we departed around 3:30pm.