!!! Lorraine rescued from the ground again, and the other two still high and holding their altitude.
July 01, 2016 - Scarborough - Yellow Pages
Mark Nash Reports:
July 1st - 2016
A very busy wet windy Canada Day at the Yellow pages fledge watch!
Despite the heavy rain and gusty winds, Lorraine tried again and took her second, third and forth flight,, ending up on the street very defeated and out of gas!
With Tracy and Bruce having to tear up the streets as they say during the morning shift, little Lorraine (or better put,,,, big fat heavy Lorraine) attempted her second flight from the nest ledge where Marion and I had left her the night before. She ended up on the lower elevation on the west side of the nest building for this second flight. The next two short flights (number 3 and 4) didn’t go so well either!
After having a hissy fit as a result of getting soaked with a heavy downpouring of rain, she bolted from this elevation once again into the air again, this time flying to the north across Progress Ave away from the nest building,, once again loosing more altitude and ended up flopping down on the rooftop of one of the town homes.
Shortly thereafter for the third time this morning, she tried flight again (well sort of), after slipping off the townhome roof during another gusty serious of north west winds, she came down to the roadway pretty much defeated and out of gas! 
With Tracy and Bruce in hot pursuit, both soaked and rain drenched themselves, they were finally able to retrieve her from the roadway and get into the rescue carrier safe and sound.
Marion and I arrived for the afternoon and evening shift and had what would be best described as one of the most uneventful fledge watch shifts that we could remember.
Joined by Cathy after the diner hour, the three of us all agreed that little Velcro was living up to her namesake as both she and her brother NEVER left the nest ledge all afternoon or evening!! Yes, stuck to the nest ledge like Velcro with no interest in returning to the air!!!
As a matter of record, both of the two fledglings laid down and slept most of the afternoon into the evening right up until we closed the watch by days end and departed for home.
Neither of the adults did much flying at all,, nor did they feed any of the fledglings during the afternoon or evening watch!!
The overall lack of activity by all (including most all of the local resident birds) was likely because of the very aggressive gusty winds and heavy rain downpours that harassed us all afternoon and into the evening until we closed the watch down for the day.
There is nothing more satisfying like spending your day (and the holiday Canada Day at that) in a rain drenched, cold barren and empty parking lot, with gusty north west winds blowing everything all around, while trying to stay warm and dry (and trying to stay awake) on a fledge watch with absolutely no activity for 8 plus hours! 
Only the fledge watchers will ever really know what we all go through!
Despite all of our whining, you only have to look into the rescued fledglings eyes to have it all make sense and truly a rewarding experience!
Stay tuned,, we’re all back at it tomorrow…………..