Hi everyone,
As some of you are aware, a young Peregrine Falcon at the Etobicoke Sunlife nest site was banded and named after a friend to many... Big Frank.
Well, at approximately 6:30am today, he took his first flight off the nest ledge some 20 stories above Bloor Street. He had quite the brief and scary adventure. It all started off good, he got nice height at take off, but upon exploring, he hit a window, lost altitude, got stuck on a window ledge at the adjacent condo, then got stuck on Pigeon netting, and from there took flight across Bloor Street, never gaining any further height and pretty much ended up right near what we call "Frank's Bench", a TTC bench at Bloor and Eagle.
I was not there for this but a friend was, and quickly scooped little Big Frank up before he tried to take off running and may have ended up in the morning rush hour traffic.
So far 3 of the 4 Falcon chicks have fledged and every one of them has been rescued from the street. This watch season at the sites already under way in the GTA has been something else.
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