!!! Looks like at least part-time incubation is underway!!
March 30, 2014 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Sunday March 30th - 2014
Some exciting news today, in that we have confirmed that there maybe part-time incubation underway, (if not full-time) at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site. After several hour of roaming around Toronto’s east end to get some additional nest site updates, we ended our day at the Scarborough Yellow Pages nest site and found Ruben (the resident adult male) high up on the upper elevation of the nest site building (south side) in the middle of a preen-feast, looking rather dapper indeed!
For the next few hours, Linn (the resident adult female) was no where to be found as we circled the building on numerous occasions with no luck seeing her. Then, just as 7 o’clock passed and the sun setting to the west, out pops Linn from a ledge on the upper south west column, (south east facing ledge) directly in our view from the south YP parking lot.
As she exited the ledge, it was obvious that she had food in her clutches and she proceeded to fly around to the east, then around to the north side of the building out of our view. Ruben took flight and pursued her. They both returned moments later coming around from the west side of the building, with both of them returning to the same ledge that Linn had appeared from earlier.
At this point, both birds disappeared down into the ledge itself and out of our sight. Some 15 minutes later, Ruben re-appeared from the ledge, spent several minutes looking down into the ledge where Linn had disappeared, and then flew up to an upper ledge elevation on the west side of the south east column, where he stayed until we left.
Linn never did re-appear from the other ledge, and it would appear that she might be involved in at least part-time incubation, (if not now involved in full time incubation).
We will be doing another site visit later on in the week.
Stay tuned……..