Loki is terrorizing both his parents and his sister! No place to hide now!
June 28, 2013 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Mark Nash Reports:
June 28th - 2013
Rain, Rain, and more rain, but despite rain, these birds don’t seem to notice (other than being wet of course). Shortly after 5pm, the rain finally slowed down to a drizzle and the adults started into hunting mode and several meals were brought in, but now without Loki persistent harassment’s. This little guy just didn’t give it up throughout most of the day and was very active in between the short periods of rain.
No one told him you shouldn’t be flying around like this in the rain, (or he was simply not listening)! KIDS!!
He spent allot of his day dive bombing his sister and both of his parents in addition to chasing them around out to most of their hiding spots out at the Investors Group building to the west - (the building that we call the kitchen) where the parents often prepare the food just before its brought in to the nest building.
Just before the “falcon follies” typically around 8pm, the rain had completely stopped, and Ruben flew over head with a piece of food with Loki in hot pursuit. I saw the first mid air food drop for Loki, and he was in the right position to catch it. Out of nowhere, Linn suddenly appeared at warp speed and snatched the food out of the mid air just feet prior to Loki actually being able to catch it!!
Talk about “peeved-off”!! The little male fledgling chased his mom to no avail, as she easily escaped his pursuit and eventually flew off to the nest building and gave the food to his sister still on the ledge that she had earlier fledged to.
By 8:20pm suddenly, every thing stopped! Both of the juveniles had tucked them selves back onto the building ledges out of my view and both adults had taken up a roosting spot on the Yellow pages building obviously finished for the evening. It was actually quite spooky that all activity simply just stopped!
By 9:15pm, the heavy overcast really made it dark and almost impossible to see the upper corners and building ledges and I closed the fledge watch for the evening.
Many thanks to Winnie for coming out and keeping me company this evening, as it was a very long wet lonely day for the most parts, as the rain obviously scared most people away. Oh yes, right, I just found out that this is a long weekend, Canada Day weekend!
Sorry, no pictures today, just didn’t have the opportunity to get the camera out given all of the rain.
Stay tuned……..