July 12, 2019 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
Lucie’s Report
2 boys and 2 girls for DR. JANE (black/red 32/Z, 2014 hatch from Toledo, Ohio, daughter of Belle and Allen) and her new mate, an unbanded one-year-old sub-adult! (He was not seen during our visit)
Welcome LIND (m, 11/AW, 643g, 33 days, white tape), MASON (f, Z/45, 879g, 32 days, red tape), PORTLAND (m, 12/AW, 600g, 28 days, blue tape) and STONE (f, Z/46, 862g, 30 days, yellow tape)
This is the first banding in St. Marys and also a first for DR. JANE! Although she produced three kids in 2017 (two survived) and one in 2018 with her former mate, COSMO, banding was not possible. This nest site is also in a new location, which is not far from where she and COSMO were the last couple of years. Coincidentally, her nest site is the former workplace of Don Bailey, who retired not that long ago, and is passionate about following these peregrines! He is our main contact in St. Marys and we are so grateful!!
We would also like to thank the wonderful people at St. Marys Cement Plant for hosting this banding and sharing in our excitement! This certainly is not an experience that everybody gets to have and we are so fortunate that St. Marys has been very welcoming to DR. JANE and her new family!
A little background on DR. JANE: She is the daughter of Belle and Allen, and there is a bittersweet story behind this couple and why Dr. Jane is a very special falcon. Belle (hatched in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2003) and Allen (hatched in Lima, Ohio in 2004) have been together since late 2006. They produced 24 offspring from 2007-2014. In 2014, Belle was attacked by another female and was seriously hurt .. while incubating her four eggs! Two eggs hatched and Belle, even in her injured state, took care of them. It was not expected that these eggs would hatch, much less thrive and fledge, but they did .. Dr. Jane and her brother Tennant! Belle never returned to the nest. Allan was with a new female in 2015 named Liadan, but in 2016 was replaced with a new male, Rocky. As far as I know, they are still together.
Belle and Allen’s legacy will continue with Dr. Jane’s children, who can now be identified if they are spotted! I don’t know the status of Dr. Jane’s brother, Tennant.
For anyone wanting to know more about Toledo’s birds, you can check out Toledo Peregrine Project’s facebook page.
Some of these photos are mine, and some are Don Bailey’s (also known as ‘Beetle’ .. cute) We wish our kids safe and successful fledges
Posted on July 16, 2019 11:36 am
June 29, 2019 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
4 chicks produced at St MAty’s Cement in St MAry’s Ontario. We are planning to band them on July 12th stay tuned for pictures and further news from that site.
Posted on June 29, 2019 9:40 am
June 27, 2019 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
Home of JOE (48/Y, 2010 hatch from Hamilton Sheraton Centre), VIRGINIA (76/AX, 2013 hatch from Buffalo), ROSIE (red band), GRACE (blue band)
One of the biggest fears a fledge watcher faces is the prospect of a young falcon coming to ground .. and coming to ground in the middle of busy street is absolutely terrifying! However .. in Beachville, coming to ground is a natural occurrence .. after all, the nest box is about as high as a three-storey building.
On Tuesday, I got to spend 4 hours sitting in the parking lot watching the girls! With nothing but the hum of the hydrator (yes, I find this very relaxing compared to all the continuous construction noise everywhere else), I also got to observe other species in the area, primarily barn swallows, which photo bombed a few of my pics.
Although most of my photos were challenged by the sun, I did get quite a few with some decent lighting. It was also refreshing to be able to watch without straining my neck muscles LOL
I hope you don’t mind all the photos. Cheers, Lucie
Posted on June 28, 2019 9:56 am
June 05, 2019 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
2 chicks banded successfully thanks to the great folks at Beachville Quarry and Carmeuse and CPF’s volunteer Master bander Anne Yagi.
There was 2 female chicks this year, good thing since we have had more boys than girls so far in 2019.
We were able to get a lift up to the nest thanks to the Beachville guarry’s lift operators extracted the chicks without issue band the chicks and get them back to Mom and Dad. Both chicks were a very good weight and were quite healthy. CPF Volunteer Lucie Kirchknoph assisted at the banding table for the first time and was very happy to have had the opportunity to help the birds she has been watching for so long.
here is the band information for 2019.
Female named Grace 909 grams Canadian black band Z over 42 Blue tape on the silver band
Female named Rosie 959 grams Canadian black band Z over 43 Red tape on the silver band
Hope they do well and stay aloft.
Posted on June 10, 2019 2:29 pm
April 01, 2019 - International, National and Local News
CPF Volunteer Reports:
March 17th - 2019
A big thank you to Lucie and Richard for their efforts and their successes in getting some good shots and an identification of the resident adult peregrines at the Beachville nest site again this year.
Confirmed,,, via their leg band numbers,,, that it is Joe and Virginia again this season back on territory hanging around on the CPF nest box and tower!
Posted on April 1, 2019 2:27 am
March 30, 2019 - International, National and Local News
CPF Volunteer Reports:
March 26th - 2019
Just as a quickly update on Hamilton’s second pair of nesting peregrines,, we have been notified that the Dafasco peregrine’s are once again back on site at the Dafasco plant in Hamilton and are currently incubating an undisclosed amount of eggs.
Fingers crossed that the pair will be successful again this year in producing and fledging offspring!
Given the huge manpower resource at the plant and the many social and environmental programs that Dafasco has, we’re sure that their peregrines are in good hands and will be well looked after.
Posted on March 30, 2019 7:11 pm
September 05, 2018 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
I know you have all missed keeping track of your local peregrine families but there is good news.
We now have someone to help with the web site and can post all the latest news.
Here is a quick summery of the 2018 nesting season, banding events and fledge watch. If you notice that I have not posted any information about the Bloor and Islington nest site it is because the nest failed this year. O’Connor the adult female has been replaced by a new female who although did lay eggs they did failed to hatch. We are not sure if O’Connor was killed by the new female in a territorial battle or if she has moved to an as of yet unknown location, hopefully the later is true.
Fledge Watch
although the fledge watchers were kept very busy by the fledglings and preformed many rescues we are happy to say that of the 41 chicks banded this season there were only 4 lost and 1 injured.
1 of the chicks lost produced at the Burlington Bridge nest was very sick with Trichominiasis a protozoan infection too advanced to save and who passed during extraction from nest.
The Second loss was Gigi from the Mississauga MEC nest site who unfortunately hit a window and died on impact.
The 3rd was Sun from the Toronto Downtown Sheraton Hotel nest who had gone missing for over a week and although our watchers made a tremendous effort to find him they began to expect by the end of the week that he passed. Unfortunately he was later found dehydrated and starving he was taken into rehab but passed same day.
I also got a report yesterday that one of the fledglings from 220 Duncan Mill Rd. Was found over the September long weekend in Hamilton with an injured wing. It turns out it is Loki identified by his band number X over 85. x-rays have been taken and shows a broken wrist so we are waiting on a report from the vet to see if this break is operable.
One other injury happened this year to the Adult male Lucifer in Kitchener at the CTV nest site and has been in rehab. Lucifer had a broken with that was operated on and he is now in flight pen to work the wing, His mate Mystery managed to keep her 4 chicks fed and protected but this is where the 4th loss comes in one of the chicks hopped off the nest box onto the tower where he spent a day or 2 and disappeared he was never found on the ground so we assume he was grabbed by and owl during the night. Hopefully all goes well for Lucifer and he will be released back to his mate soon.
Banding Events 2018
We are looking for funding to buy bands for next year as the Federal government is not longer supplying them to the Provinces and the Province of Ontario did not budget for them. If you are interested in supporting the banding program and help protect our Ontario produced falcon chicks please kindy make a donation to The Canadian Peregrine Foundation. You can send a cheque to the foundation at 25 Crouse Rd. Suite 20 Toronto, Ontario M1R 5P8 or go on line and click our donation button on the front page of the web site at www.peregrine-foundation.ca Canada Helps.
This year there were several unhatched eggs and most of the chicks hatched were male. The weights at banding age for most of the chicks was also low compared to pervious years.
May 22nd 2018
Mississauga MEC
Female-GIGI
band Z21
William Osler Hospital
Male-Indy
band X14
May 23rd 2018
Windsor Ambassador Bridge
Male-Hermes
band Y59
May 24th 2018
Hamilton Sheraton Hotel
Male-Lawrence
band
Y50
Male-Ainslie
band Y51
Male-Gage
band Y52
Male-Lisgar
band Y60
May 25th 2018
Oshawa Lakeridge Hospital
Female-Ripley
band Z22
Burlington Lift Bridge
Male-Cooper
band Y61
Male-Jackson
band X13
May 29th 2018
220 Duncan Mill Rd.
Male- Thor
band X83
Male-TT
band X84
Male- Loki
band X85
Male- Velcro
band X87
June 5th 2018
Canada Square
Male-Petrus
band X95
Male-Bart
band X97
Male-Ricklin
band R14
June 5th 2018
Rogers Centre
Female-Diamond
band Z23
Male-Grand Slam
Band Z24
Male-Homer
Band X94
June 5th 2018
Toronto Downtown Sheraton Hotel
Male- Geoff
Band X15
Male-Sheraton
Band X92
Male-Sun
Band X93
June 6th
OPG Pickering
Female- Millidarry
Band Z25
Female-Candu
Band Z26
Male- Chadwick
Band R15
Male-Cobalt
Band Z27
June 6th 2018
Scarborough Yellow Pages
Male-Alfa
Band R16
Female-Sierra
Band Z67
June 8th 2018
ADM Mills Port Colborne
Female- Mongolia
Band Z59
Male-Brandon
Band X03
Male- Macaroon
Band X07
female-Red Velvet
Band Z63
June 20th
Mount Sinai Hospital
Male-Chase ( banded when rescued during fledge)
Band X05
2 other chicks not banded ( believed to be male)
June 27th 2018
Don Mills Amazon
Male-Professor X
Band X04
Female- Chalaza
Band- Z38
June 28th 2018
Kitchener CATV Tower
Female-Eos
Band Z39
Female- Sadie
Band Z40
Male-Monarch
Band X12
Male-Mercury
Band W92
There were also 2 Quarry sites that produced chicks as did the Mississauga CRH Cement plant but due to bad logistics this year we were unable to get the age of the chicks in time to band. Hopefully we will get the information a bit quicker next year and if we are able to raise the funds needed to continue to band your chicks.
I will post some photos soon
Posted on September 5, 2018 5:05 pm
June 09, 2017 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
Thanks to all the staff at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station we had another successful banding of 4 healthy peregrine nestlings. It was wonderful to see so many staff June 9th 2017
out to be part of, watch and assist us in the banding. Not only for their help in accessing the nest with a lift truck and operator but to navigate us through all the security and safety requirements to get this work done. Thank s to everyone involved!!!
Here is the information and photos of the newest addition to the OPG PNG peregrine family.
female 940 grams at banding named Eva banded Z over 15 with Red Tape on the silver band
Male 655 grams at banding named Grey banded Y over 48 with Blue tape on the silver band
Male 670 grams at banding named Becquerel banded X over 75 with green tape on silver band
Male 715 grams at banding named Fission banded X over 76 with White tape on silver band
As the chicks are 19 to 23 days old now we expect the first to fledge in about 12 to 14 days good luck to them all!
Posted on June 11, 2017 2:26 am
June 03, 2017 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
Reports have come in from the staff at the quarry of 2 hatchlings in the nest box. We are working out logistics to band them next week stay tuned for information and Photos.
Posted on June 3, 2017 9:02 pm
May 25, 2017 - International, National and Local News
Marion Nash Reports:
May 16th – 2017
Hi Mark, Richard and I checked in on Joe and Virginia on our way back from Pelee. Doesn’t look like a hatch yet. We watched for an hour and she didn’t move. Joe sat nearby on a tree. We’ll check again soon and keep you posted. Cheers,
Lucie
Posted on May 25, 2017 8:35 pm
