!!! It might appear that incubation may be underway! Two resident / territorial adults on site!
March 27, 2016 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
CPF Postmaster Reports:
Sunday March 27th - 2016
Doing it the old fashion way, (and much more rewarding I must admit), I spent some time out at the Yellow Pages nest site today. Although quite nice, sun shine and blue skies, the constant wind gusts did present challenges holding both the binoculars and digital camera steady for any length of time.
Again, faced with another high fever day and nagging flu symptoms, I could only stay a short time and made the best of my time as I could.
Moments after my arrival, a peregrine was observed flying in from the west and both landed and disappeared down into one of the upper northern western ledges. While it happened too quickly for me to identify its gender, (combined with the fact that I was alone and around the south west side of the building), it was obvious to me that the adult was on a mission to quickly get back to the building and down into the ledge!
As I was re-positioning to get a better look at the upper north west elevations of the building, a second falcon popped up from yet another one of the upper ledges on the north side of the building and flew around to the south east side of the building,, this time out of my view. By the time I get repositioned AGAIN,, it became quite obvious that playing this “cat & mouse / shell game” (given the 16 available nest ledges that surround the entire building) by myself was not going to be a productive afternoon, especially given the closeness to dark fall. With one nest site still to check, I decided to move on.
Conclusion,, Oh yes, two territorial Pefa’s on site,, and given the time of year with hormones running high, and most of the other nest nearby pairs are already on eggs (its breeding and egg production time don’t you know),, there is a high probability that the Yellow Pages pair are on egg(s), or very very close to laying.
Sadly, I can’t confirm who the two peregrines are that is on site,, but two adults are present!!!
We will have to return next week to do an upper ledge survey to confirm.
Stay tuned……………