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!!! Still only one egg, and they moved it!

March 28, 2016 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre

CPF Postmaster Reports:

Monday March 28th - 2016

While its still too soon to venture a guess (other than the obvious), as to what’s going on at the Toronto Sheraton nest site, (and not being able to confirm the “who’s who” yet),, the first egg was observed on March 26th, clearly visible in the night webcam shot captured and posted by Linda. Good going Linda!

As Linda notes, the first egg was deposited both outside, and to the left of the nest tray.

This morning, (March 28th), the egg is now in a different position, several inches beyond the end of the nest tray in a well defined scrape. So, it appears that one of the resident pair have been busy moving the egg into the scrape!

After several hours of watching the live video this morning and early afternoon, I was able to capture a few more webcam shots of one of the resident adults (believed to be that of the adult male given its smaller size) that finally took up some incubation duties.

After careful review of the webcam photos taken, this adult appears to be dawning a solid Black coloured leg band on its left leg and a silver band on its right leg.

Unfortunately, I was NOT able to get a positive identification or ID of the band numbers as the photo is simply not clear enough, even after some photo-shopping and enlargement :-( Sorry, maybe next time!

The question always remains until band confirmation as to the who’s who at each of the nest sites each spring!