A Rainy Day at Yellow Pages; Soaking Wet Lorraine Rescued Again
July 01, 2016 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Bruce opened the watch this morning early as all three kids were last together in the nest ledge on the east side of the building. He wanted to ensure that he had eyes on all three and that he was ready for the days antics. All three birds have now flown from the nest ledge and are experiencing the world beyond. Kojis has already demonstrated that he is well on his way to becoming a good strong flyer; big check mark beside his name. The girls… …well, they’re working on it.
After Lorraine’s rescue and cheater flop down to the nest ledge she was raring to go for another flight. She took off the ledge and made her way around to the west side of the building landing on the lowest granite ledge. A nice flight that ended with her at a good elevation with lots of room for play. Kojis and Velcro were happy to stay in the ledge although Velcro did decide to try out her wings… just this once… and ended up back on the nest ledge again. Whoopie, I’m out and home, my work here today is done. ZZZzzzzzzz. Ok, so Velcro needs to unstick a bit.
When I arrived, I stayed on the west side watching Lorraine while Bruce stayed on the east side keeping an eye on the two ledge potatoes. Lorraine was having a lovely little flap fest up on her ledge and seemed to have lots of energy to burn. There were waves of rain moving in and out of the area and it in no way dampened her mood. She seemed really determined to get off of that ledge today and was busy working up the courage for that next flight. At around 2pm the rain started really coming down and so I headed back to my car over at Wynn fitness where I could still keep an eye on her but stay dry at the same time. Just as I got into the car she started freaking out as the rain was now coming in buckets along with thunderclaps and suddenly she slipped off. She started to pinwheel down the face of the building and at the last minute, she recovered and flew out about 20 feet away from the building in an attempt to get back to her ledge. She fell short of her landing by about 10 feet and now was making her way back east following the south face of the building. She was low and dropping with each flap as she was soaked and heavy. She passed Bruce who had dove under cover from the rain and he saw her whip past about 4 feet off of the ground out towards the back field. I raced over in my car and met up with Bruce. The search was on.
Bruce thought she may have tried for the trees and had come to ground based on her trajectory as she barreled past him. The rain was now just gushing down and the two of us set out regardless of the deluge. We searched that field several times including the trees and low bushes but came up empty. Based on her direction of travel I now started looking at the trees on the north side of Milner. I also scanned the rooftops and… Bingo! On a townhouse roof looking like a drenched rat. Bruce headed into the complex for a different angle of view and I stayed on Milner. She made an attempt at a roof to roof flight that ended her up in the middle of the road of the complex. Bruce came at her from the west and I came up the driveway. Between the two of us we had her cornered and I scooped her up for some chill out time in a carrier. She is not amused that she has been touched once again by a ground dweller and hissed at me with all her might. Pretty cute. Bruce and I must have looked quite ridiculous as we stood there with a hissy Lorraine in the driveway of the complex, both of us completely drenched and dripping wet. We weren’t amused but both agreed it was worth it.
I left shortly after the rescue but before I did, we checked in on the two ledge loafers and they were both tucked in for the duration of the rain. Neither Kojis or Velcro were interested in taking any flights at the time and with Lorraine secured inside Yellow Pages I handed the watch over to Mark and Marion. A few pics are attached that I took of our wee Lorraine and her adventurous day.
