The remainder of the MEC watch today had so many twist and turns but most importantly a good scare for all.
June 04, 2017 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Marion Nash Reports:
June 4th 2017
The morning started out with the two girls on MEC 3. Angelina was now halfway around the building from where I released her the night before and Mary was on MEC 4. She flew over and the two girls had a great reunion. Mary made another couple of flights and then Renegade flew in with breakfast. It went straight to Angelina who tore it off of him and ate the whole thing. 20 minutes later Midnight arrived with more food that she beak fed… …to Angelina! The whole time Mary was wailing away but received nothing for her efforts. The two then relaxed and snuggled for a while and then a third package of food came in that went to Mary. Satisfied, the girls then jumped down onto the catwalk around the roof of MEC 3 and slept together for 30 minutes. Seeing as Mary didn’t get much, she was up and screaming pretty quickly. She did several more flights throughout the day and finally took the long flight home. She made it to the nest ledge and back to the box! While all this flying stuff was going on, Angelina slept the day away, much needed after her battle with that nasty tree yesterday. Mary stayed at the nest box for a bit and then took off after an adult. She circled back to the nest building to head home but the sun was right in her eyes. She hit the building, really hard. She dropped straight down for the length of one window and then shot out her wings. She glided down towards the ravine and that was the last Bruce saw of her. He walked and searched everywhere, again and again, to no avail. Mark and Winston arrived at the site to help and Bruce headed home as he will be the opening shift tomorrow. Mark and Winston also walked and searched the buildings and the ravine but still no Mary. It was beginning to get dark when they decided to take one last look along the valley and who should they find but Mary up in a tree looking deflated but perfectly healthy. The relief for us all was immense. Angelina thankfully stayed on top of MEC 3 for the day and didn’t distract us from our mission of finding Mary.
Thank you so much to Bruce for helping share the watch with me today and a very special thanks to Mark and Winston for sticking with the search and finding young Mary safe and sound. Ok Mary, no more scares!!!!!