The Hamilton Community Peregrine Project is pleased to announce the almost simultaneous arrival of two Peregrine Falcon chicks this afternoon at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel. The third egg is expected to hatch within the next few days.
This is the seventeenth year that the same 18th floor Sheraton window column ledge has been occupied by Peregrines. More than 50 juvenile Peregrines have fledged successfully from the nest. The current female, Madame X, was hatched on a bridge in Pennsylvania in 1999. The male, Surge, was hatched in Etobicoke in 2002. The falcons can be observed on live web cams at: http://falcons.hamiltonnature.org/ Falconwatch 2011, which monitors the chicks as they learn to fly and assists if they run into trouble, will begin during the first week of June. Volunteers are needed to help keep an eye on the birds. Anyone interested can contact Falconwatch at: [email protected] Mike Street Ancaster, Ontario, Canada [email protected] _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
