A Typhoon has hit the Canada Square at Yonge & Eglinton in Toronto!!! Typhoon has taken to the air. The last 2015 fledge watch for us and the last to fledge!
July 04, 2015 - Toronto - Canada Square Building - Yonge and Eglinton
Marion Nash Reports:
July 4th - 2015
Tracy started the watch at 6:30 AM with Typhoon still in the nest and sister Omega still flying high. Although there were some nice flights by Omege on and off all morning Typhoon whs still practising on the ledge.
When I arrived at 11:30 he was doing a little flapping and looked like he was getting ready to go soon.
Later on the afternoon Lance came out to watch with us for a little while and brought a very cool home made telescope out with him he set it up on Typhoon and plugged a small camera into the eye piece which then plugged into a laptop.
We were treated with a live video to watch for about an hour and watched Typhoon flapping and getting ready to go. we were all hopping Lance would get a video clip of him taking off for his first flight. Well Lance wrung the laptops battery out to the last drop and no flight yet but sure got some sweet footage of him.
Thanks Lance this is so cool!
Here is the YouTube link https://youtu.be/w2EbT6ALmoA
Kathy came out to join us in the evening and got to see some more cool flights by Omega and more crazy flapping by Typhoon. Tracy said he is gonna go soon as we watched him climb the walls of the nest ledge and was just getting ready to go herself at about 8:30 when he took flight.
We watched him fly out hook to the north and over Young street past the CIBC building then hook back to the nest building with good height but not quite enough to make the roof. Kathy took off to Young street to go look for him we knew he had landed somewhere up high but where. Tracy went west and then north on Young, I staid put just in case he did not make a good landing and flew again.
By the time Kathy got to Young Street he had made the roof top and called me to say he was fine and made it to the top, Tracy had gone up Young for a better vantage point to make sure it was him she was seeing and not Omega who was at the time of his flight on the antenna of the nest building. Tracy confirmed that yes it was Typhoon he had just missed the roof and took flight again hooked back and landed on the roof where she was able to get a picture with her camera of his band with the blue tape.
We all parked ourselves in front of CIBC for a while until he walked the ledge back to the Duplex avenue side of the building and we packed it up for the night. We walked back to the cars and saw him sitting quietly on the edge of the roof and headed home.
Bruce will be out early in the morning to resume the watch and I will be back for the afternoon.
After things settle down Tracy will be putting together a flicker album of some of her photos and will post the link on this page.
Now the great flights with his sister, mom Haven and dad Malik will begin so bring your cameras and watch the lessons and playtime.