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May 26, 2019 - Toronto - Don Mills

Cathy Kerr Reports:

Update from Don Mills : Sally was by on the weekend and she reports:

It was quite warm, and Quest had her back to the road, wings out slightly. One of the eyas came out to the front to have a peek out but pretty quiet for a while.

A while later, Mystery brought food and the chicks got a feed. Then pretty quiet again, except for the one (pretty big! A female?) who kept popping up to the front of the nest box, wing flaps and then back in to join her/his siblings who were pretty inactive.

Both Quest and the chick had their mouths open much of the time and by then the sun was hitting the nest box. I agree, the warmer weather has arrived suddenly!

I decided to wander down from the parking arcade to get some shade myself. As I heard an incessant alarm call from north east, I saw about 20 cyclists come up Duncan Mill Rd out of the ravine trail. I chuckled at the timing thinking: surely cyclists in 80s neon colours are not rifling a few falcon feathers…. The cyclists went by, and then I heard the alarm call again. I looked to see where it was coming from (somewhere above 240 Duncan Mill building), then heard another call from the west, saw Mystery flying deliberately to where I’d heard the other call, quickly confirmed Quest still on the nest ledge, but looking over in the same westerly direction, and then spotted the 3rd peregrine. Uh oh! Larger than Mystery. Maybe the female who got chased away from the ICIC nest? Hmmm…who knows, but Mystery called until the intruder had flown away. He circled for quite some time then disappeared, probably to a spot with a 360 view.

Quest remained unmoved from her spot, back to the street, facing into the nest.

Ciao for now

Sally

Thanks to Sally for the great report and pictures! Banding this week…