!!! MEC egg(s),, - full time incubation appears to be underway!!
March 22, 2014 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
CPF Postmaster Reports:
March 23rd - 2014
Some great news for MEC in that it appears that we have full time incubation underway at the MEC nest site!! While we continue to work on the camera’s internet connections and the replacement of the new camera component needed to get the camera back on line, the colour camera is never-the-less producing a great live colour stream to the internal monitor.
Today, we were able to photograph the resident male - (“Sante”) hard at work incubating an undisclosed amount of eggs. Sadly, the bitter cold temps and high wind chill factors still exist and we can only hope that warmer weather will be soon upon us and spring weather and warmer conditions finally arrive!! It has been a very cold winter indeed!! With temps today still minus -9 degrees and minus -13 degrees with the wind-chills, its still bitter cold out there!
As far as the resident adult female (Rogue), after being more than a year in re-hab, the returning resident adult female (Rogue) seems to have settled in quite nicely and resumed where she left off two seasons ago. Remembering that she was seriously injured in a territorial dispute with another adult female two seasons ago and had to be taken into re-hab for some long term care. Rouge was eventually released back to the wild last August 2013 in the Niagara area, and as expected, was back at the MEC Mississauga territory in less than 12 hours after being released back to the wild. She was banded prior to being released back to the wild with a single Silver USFW leg band on the LEFT LEG and does not have a coloured recovery band on, so it should be very easy to identify her. Typically, the Silver USFW band is put on the right leg.
The adult female that had injured Rouge two seasons ago and took over the territory did in fact produce offspring last season at this nest site with the resident adult male - “Sante”, but she was found dead in the Square One parking lot late last July. Sante is unbanded and his original origin is unknown.
Sante immediately went into welcoming Rouge upon her return and they are obviously holding the MEC territory and doing well!
Stay tuned for more news…….
