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Fledge Watch Begins

June 14, 2014 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre

Linda Woods Reports:
All four juvies remain on the ledge.
Not much happened until 7:40 p.m when Rhea Mae and Tiago were seen doing big flights south of the hotel and near the nest ledge. Rhea Mae had food with her, went to the ledge and then flew off again, trying to lure one of them off. Huge flights with prey and Tiago in tow. Tiago would fly near the nest ledge with big flaps as he past ( flight training )
Eventually Rhea Mae took the food into the ledge and dropped it and both Rhea Mae and Tiago took off  and continued their huge flights south of the hotel. They were flying over 130/120 Adelaide, towards Trump Tower and over 390 Bay st and then out of sight.
Rhea Mae was seen earlier sitting on the south east corner to the Hilton. Good sign to see where they might encourage the young ones to fly to.
A little bit of flapping by the juvies, certainly not the excited frantic flapping I would expect close to fledging. All remained quiet for the remainder of the evening, until closer to 9p.m. when Rhea Mae and Tiago returned with the big flights south of the hotel
This was short lived and both adults went out of sight for the night. I closed the watch for evening around 9:20 p.m. At this time all four juvies had tucked into the corner by the active camera for the night.