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MASTERING THE SKY
Friday, June 20, 2020 - Falcon Watch Coordinators Nathan and Chelsea report: Whitehern's flying skills are improving wonderfully. Her flights are strong, with no hesitation. Landings are perfect, wherever she likes! Most of her flights are of her own accord. She is only enticed by meals being left on top of different ledges and buildings.
At 6:28am Ossie flew from his perch around Stelco Tower. Suddenly Whitehern appears with him in flight, circling around Stelco, then lands back on a window ledge. A minute later, Ossie brings food, drops it beside Whitehern and leaves. At 7am Whitehern flew across the south face of Fairclough, east across the building and came to land on top of CIBC. Ten minutes later, she flew south and landed on BDC. It looked as though she had food left there for her on ledge. Over the next hour or so she alternated between strolling along the ledge and taking rest breaks, pancaked on the ledge. 9:45am she flew out above David Braley parking area, around the west and northside of Standard Life, then back over to the Sheraton. From there, another flight over to Stelco. 10am Whitehern flew from that spot over and around Fairclough building, back over David Braley parking area to land on the roof of Standard Life. She went out of our view, where she stayed hidden for the next several hours.
Whitehern eventually flew over to BDC, then a while later, headed to Stelco, where she got fed around 1:50pm. She stayed there for another 3 hours, at one point flying to the west side of Stelco and landing on the grid at the top, staying there for about 7 minutes. At 3:45, about 8 turkey vultures were seen circling above and near Stelco. However, that didn't last very long as one of the parents started to chase one of them away, which gave a clear message to the other vultures. At 7:11, Whitehern was seen on the east side of Stelco, about 8 floors from the top. Shortly after, she took a short flight but landed back on the exact spot she took off from. Half an hour later, Lily was seen on the south-east corner prepping food. Both Lily and Whitehern were very vocal. At 8:04, Whitehern flew south towards bdc, but then headed back towards Stelco. Lily was on the nest ledge. Whitehern flew to the Sheraton and landed two ledges beside the nest, she was very vocal, and eventually made her way to the nest where she chased Lily off, who flew to the eastern corner of Standard Life. Whitehern chased her around for a few minutes, while being very vocal. Lily landed Stelco and the chick landed on the roof of Sheraton. At 8:37, Whitehern was on the north side of Stelco where she stayed for the rest of the evening.
Update from the Owl Foundation: Griffin is doing well. In recognition of the fact he had barely started to develop his flying skills before his accident, and how well Whitehern is doing, they have decided to keep him a few extra days, to let him practice his flying in a safe environment, and bring his skills up to a level a little closer to those of his sister, before returning him to the nest. This is something the Owl Foundation does routinely, so we expect good results. And as always they have our extreme gratitude!
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I. So glad they are doing well- thank you, Loza!
