!!! Mel drops in for a visit! Bye-Bye now!
July 05, 2015 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Mark Nash Reports:
July 5th - 2015
Just after closing the Canada Square fledge watch at Yonge & Eglinton, having observed both of the two young fledglings flying high and doing incredible well,, it was off to the east end and the grocery store to actually get some real food for the house!! After weeks of having to eat fast food, always on the run, some home cooked food is sounding pretty good indeed!
Although pretty typical of the fledge watch time frames where the 16 plus hours days simply don’t allow you to do much home time, (let alone home cooking), it is something that most fledge watches understand and learn to deal with.
During our shopping event, (and I gotta refer to it as an event, given that we haven’t actually been able to get to a grocery store in weeks), the phone rang out again right in the middle of isle #5, (dairy). With the caller explaining that a young peregrine falcon had been trapped behind the glass on her balcony overnight and was still unable to get free, she was concerned that its 24 hour plus imprisonment while trapped behind the glass without food or water may now be getting critical.
After a short question and answer period, it was obvious that the raptor on her balcony was in fact a banded peregrine, Banded Black Y over 10, (with White tape) and non-other than “Mel”, one of the young peregrine falcons produced at the Etobicoke Bloor & Islington nest site. Remembering that Mel was one of the smallest little male peregrines we have seen this year.
So, it was back into the car rushing off to Etobicoke. Upon or arrival with the net, rescue carrier and towels in hand, we were greeted by Ann, who took us to her balcony where little Mel had only moments ago been successful in squeezing under the glass balcony front and was finally able to get free. Now roosting on the corner of her balcony (on the other side of the glass), little Mel curiously watched us snap a few pictures of him, and then simply flew off without even a thank you 
A huge thank you to the Aberfoyle condo security and to Ann for calling and chasing us down, as we are never too far away to help!
