Friday at MEC. Josally Doing Great!
June 04, 2016 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Bruce Massey Reports:
First full day of fledge watch started at MEC today. I arrived at around 5:30 am and found Josally ( Blue tape) on top of the roof ledge closely watched by his father. Olimar (Red tape) was still on the nest ledge close to the nest box. Olimar is certainly ready for first flights as he is readily jumping the gap and flapping like mad. Needless to say both adults stayed relatively close either perched on the window washing davit arms or on fairly close buildings.
Up until the later afternoon, most of the of feeding went to Josally who remained on the retaining wall of the nest building roof where he was released. Olimar did get occasionally fed small amounts. It was kinda funny because when Dad fed Josally was very aggressive. He grabbed the food from him and quickly turned his back in a full mantle over it. Now when mom fed him he tried to fight her for it but instead ended up being beak fed, Mommy’s orders. Olimar had mastered ledge hopping, really more like ledge flying, quite well throughout the day. He also mastered jumping up on to the nest box and was very proud of the fact that he was on top and dad had to sit on the landing platform.
Just after 5 PM Josally saw his brother doing some ledge hopping and decided he wanted to play too. He fluttered down from the roof and almost landed on his brother. He was back on the nest ledge level even though the landing wasn’t too pretty. Just when I thought that Josally had mastered flight, I watched him slip, do the bat maneuver for about 5 minutes and frantically tried to get back up to the ledge that he was just a few inches away from. When that didn’t work, he let go and flew over to the northwest corner of MEC 3. Please don’t ask me to score his landing as I think he was trying to land on the top level, but instead pancaked into the wall and dropped down to the ledge below. I still have to give him credit, as clumsy as he seems to be, he does seem to think through the situation and is able to keep calm and react in the right way.
Around 9 o’clock Olimar seemed to go out of sight in the box and I was able to check the camera and it appeared he was laying down. Josally was quite comfortable in his spot over on MEC 3 under the sign. Renegade took up position on the southwest corner of the nest building for the evening and even though I didn’t see Midnight in my view, I decided to call it a night at about 9pm