Hancock Wildlife Foundation

The fledglings have tended to remain in and around the street, often using some of these same perches but gradually moving around the surrounding backyards as well, and these have provided lots of pretty good opportunities to get close looks at the juveniles: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5015...

Progress of the nestlings off of the tree was quite rapid, July 24 I caught a rather interesting sequence between (I believe) the adult male and one of the nestlings, after the male arrived with a prey item; https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50149363363_6d9e0f0161_z.jpg A larger fledgling (which w...

After identifying the nest, it was evident fairly quickly that there were at least 3 nestlings probably at least a couple of weeks old, with some definite pin feather development but with lots of down still retained. It was now much easier to catch the sequence of food deliveries, often with the mal...

The male and female adult merlins are reasonably distinguishable based on plumage, at least when one has a reasonably close look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQzPYChTveI&t=78s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlchShjTZB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbTKV2Q_e2o With the possibility of a nest i...

This year in my neighbourhood (suburban Toronto) I did not have the usual Coopers hawk breeding that has been present in the territory from 2012-2019 with the exception of 2016. This spring, although there were adult and subadult/juvenile on territory briefly, they did not However I had been noting ...

This thread is for the discussion of merlins (falco columbarius), especially merlins in the urban environment. In many areas merlins are starting to become a more common urban raptor.

Both Thor and Loki are back at the nest again, but I missed when they returned.

Mar 11: I went out early in the morning in the park to check for activity, and I heard some vocalizations coming from the trees just near the N entrance to the park. I saw one Coopers fly across over into the lower trees immediately across from its perch, after which it subsequently flew over into t...

Mar 5 - I got my first adult back in the Silverthorn territory about 6:30am in the morning, there was one adult making a couple of kik announcement calls from a tree in a yard just off of the NE corner of the park. After roosting there for a few minutes it suddenly flushed into the park and started ...

Feb 22: I came across one of the High Park Coopers, close to their nest area from two years ago (but apparently not used successfully last year). This bird seems to have a small distinctive abrasion across the front of the beak.

Feb 2 - I had a sighting of an adult Coopers high on top of an antenna on top of an apartment building which is ~800m east of the park area. It's not as common to see the Coopers up on those very high perches -that same building is one I've seen RTs on a number of times.

This young Coopers had a bit of adventure in an indoor mall:

http://www.providenceraptors.com/2020/0 ... ce-arcade/

Today I came across an adult Coopers approx 800m or so NW of the park area, sitting on a light pole beside the road. It's conceivable this bird is one of the territorial adults but it is of course hard to be sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlbfUmtR9s4

After quite a long time without seeing any Coopers around the area, this afternoon just outside the park I saw a Coopers glide by overhead heading into the park and dive down as if perhaps pursuing something. When I walked over to find the bird roosting in a tree along the NW area of the park, it wa...

Some more of the hawk-owl. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49294957936_dd1df14512_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49294958471_2685d58263_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49295153597_e34b7237cb_b.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxcNVMbuPVQ&t=14s https://www.youtube.com/watc...