AND CANUCK IS HOME!!!
June 09, 2020 - Toronto - Don Mills
Cathy Kerr Reports:
DAY 5 FLEDGE WATCH: What a great day!! Our boy made it home-yayyyyy!! I arrived to a quiet nest, girls hanging out(Seven was proud of herself, getting up onto the nestbox) and parents on their usual corners. Darn! No sign of him. I did a sweep around but no Canuck. So I drove up the street and started to drive in and around buildings, just in case. I stopped behind one low building and listened-tons of alarm calls by resident robins etc…could it be our boy? I got out and peered back into the forest–on a dead tree–a baby hawk! Not my baby…So I headed back to watch the girls. I hadn’t sat for long, when I heard that beautiful squee of a juvie coming from the area he had been last seen…did I really hear that–again, closer and Dad called back! OH YES!! I ran, going toward that beautiful sound-loud now. And there he was, on the building that he just missed before he went into the forest. ON THE ROOF! Whoohoo! I moved my chair where I could see him and the girls, but he didn’t stay there long-he flew over me to the rooftop of the building across from the nest! Way to go Canuck!! He chased Mom off, then whined at Dad–he was hungry lol. But he did not stop–he flew all over the place, sometimes landing at not so great a place but got himself out and about over and over again! It was fantastic! We called him our Crazy Canuck lol. His last flight took landed him, quite nicely, right in front of the nest box!! He truly was home. His sisters were very happy to see him. He spent the rest of this very, very hot day, resting with his family on the nest ledge. Seven is getting very close to fledging, Hope has a few days to go, unless an accidental fledge lol. A very good day!! Thanks to Sally & Bob for helping out again!
