Toronto - Four Seasons

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June 11, 2009 - Burlington - Lift Bridge

Matt MacGillivray Reports:

If you have photos of any of the CPF monitored nest sites, birds or fledglings in this exciting time, we would love to see them!  If you have older photos or videos from CPF events, like the 2009 Sportsman show, we would love to see those too.

We’ve got a flickr group that you can upload photos and short videos to.   If you have longer videos, upload them to youtube and tag them with cpf and peregrine and I will find them.

Example shot from the Sheraton Banding in the Flickr Pool -

We might include some of the videos or photos in our updates, or around the site.  You could be famous!

Matt.

Peregrines at Bay and Bloor

May 30, 2009 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Harry Crawford Reports:

At 5:03pm, two peregrines flew past my living room window heading
west.  The female was carrying a pigeon and the male was along for
the ride.  She landed on the north-east corner of the roof of 1057
Bay, directly above the Tim Horton’s and proceeded to prepare her
meal.  The male disappeared.  This is the first time I’ve seen a
peregrine in this location.  Usually, they prefer the taller
building next door, 77 Bloor West.  Peregrines continue to be seen
in the area but not as frequently as in the past.

!!! Updated News of Miriam - (89 over H) and Tonga - (85 over H) from Michigan USA

April 27, 2009 - Mississauga - Executive Centre

Mark Nash Reports:

With a huge thank you to Kariann in Michigan USA, we have received some great news about Miriam and Tonga, two Canadian produced peregrines that have not only beat the mortality odds of survival, but have continued to go on and produce their own families in the USA.
Miriam (blk 89/H) successfully hatched three male peregrines last season in 2008 and is still paired with the same male (Allegro) at the Whittier Apartments in Detroit Michigan. She is currently incubating. Tonga (blk 85/H) successfully hatched three peregrines last season in 2008 (2 male and 1 female) and is still paired with an unbanded male at the Blue Water Bridge site in Port Huron Michigan. We have a new Peregrine nesting at our DTE Monroe Powerplant, we are yet to hear any origin information (blk 8/K).

Kariann,  SE Michigan Peregrine Falcon Coordinator DNR.

Miriam was hacked-out and released  to the wild from the CPF’s Richmond Hill Hack site in 2003, see CPF Project Track-Em and Project Release sections on the CPF web site at -  http://www.peregrine-foundation.ca/programs/trackem/track2003.html All 3 hacked birds survived and fledged and were closely monitored by the hack site attendants until they were finally hunting on their own and later disappeared by mid October of that year.  Miriam was also involved in the CPF’s Project Track-Em and was tracked by satellite  up and until she got into trouble in Detroit Mich. USA.   Miriam was later found  and rescued the following winter of 2003-2004 in Michigan USA during a bad winter storm of freezing rain and snow having been frozen by her tail to a concrete ledge of a office tower.  She was  rescued and spent a number of weeks in rehabilitation, and was later released back to the wild.

Tonga was produced at the Mississauga Ontario MEC nest site in 2003 and was one of the best fliers of the bunch.  He has obviously survived the test of time and both of these birds continue to remind us all of the importance of banding for many reasons, in particular for the purpose of monitoring the species, and a reminder that the urban produced birds do in fact contribute to the restoration and recovery of the species - North American wide!

We wish both Miriam and Tonga continued success, and extremely pleased that they have chosen a home where they are  so appreciated and so lovingly cared for by the great folks in Michigan USA.

Sub-adult female at Yonge and Bloor

May 03, 2009 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Harry Crawford Reports:

I went searching for peregrine activity in the Yorkville area this
morning and found a male on the north-west corner of the roof of
the CIBC building at 10:14am.  He was standing on the track that
supports the swing stage equipment.  He was gone by 10:57am at which
time workers were on the roof of the nearby Marriott.  At the same
time, I spotted the female.  She was on the maroon strip of the west
CIBC logo.  With binoculars, the body and head looked normal but
the breast colouring was off.  I then dusted off my scope and took
it to street level.  She is a sub-adult, likely one of last year’s
chicks.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t see if she was banded.  She slept
most of the time and finally disappeared from view at 12:35pm.
Clearly, these birds are not Ranger and Hunter from last year.  They
also take up different locations from the previous birds.  I still
need to find out where they normally hang out.

Pair spotted at Yonge and Bloor

May 02, 2009 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Harry Crawford Reports:

At 8:07am, two peregrines appeared to come off the roof of 44
Charles West and headed to the north side of the CIBC building.  A
couple of minutes later, one of them was circling just north of that
building.  I checked the area just before 9am but couldn’t find
anything.

Activity at Yonge and Bloor

April 30, 2009 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Harry Crawford Reports:

An adult male peregrine was on the west side of the CIBC building at
3:22pm and was feeding.  No activity has been seen for several days
but food leftovers have been seen on both the west and south sides
of the CIBC building.

Not promising

April 12, 2009 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Linda Woods Reports:

Regular observations in the Bay Bloor area of the Four Season Hotel, have resulted in very little activity of the peregrines. At this time there is no evidence that nesting is being attempted at this site, at this time.

It’s still early, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

!!! Who is this

July 23, 2008 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Linda Woods Reports:

While walking south on University Ave at Edward St, I stopped to take a look at the area, I didn’t wait very long, when a peregrine came into view from the west side of Mt.Sinai Hospital flying south towards the east side of University. It landed on the north- west corner of the grey building on the north east corner of Edward and University. Peregrines have been seen on the same corner and building in years past. Not sure if it is a Sheraton bird or one from the Four Seasons.

Both at Yonge and Bloor

June 12, 2008 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Harry Crawford Reports:

This morning at 7:10am, both Ranger and Hunter were seen on the CIBC building. Ranger was on the west logo and Hunter was on the ledge just under her. They were in the same location when I checked at 8:04am but by 8:25am they had moved to the middle ledge on the west side with Ranger feeding. Hunter made an appearance on the west side of the building at 5:48pm. He has been seen daily on this building for the past couple of weeks.

Reported by Harry Crawford.

Four Seasons - north side

May 26, 2008 - Toronto - Four Seasons

Harry Crawford Reports:

Approaching the Four Seasons along Scollard from Bay at 2:10pm, I spotted Hunter on the ledge of the west-most false balcony on the north side of the the hotel. This is the location of the first failed nest. He immediately dropped down to the surface of the
balcony, out of view. At the same time, Ranger was seen heading towards the east. She returned to the ledge of the east-most balcony on the north side at 2:20pm. At 2:30pm, Hunter appeared on his balcony briefly, flew over and mated with Ranger, then went back to his previous location and dropped down to the floor of the balcony.

Reported by Harry Crawford.