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Piping
Plovers at Hanlan's Point, Toronto
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Unbanded female Piping Plover at
Hanlan's Point, Toronto, on 16 June 2015. This was the first time
the female walked by close enough to where we are monitoring for me to take a photo.
Please note very sad news, the nest was inundated and
destroyed by a huge storm overnight on 22-23 June. The three adults
survived, stayed around for a few days after, then left the area.
This was unfortunate as the eggs were about to hatch. |
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It stretched and
spread a wing. It had just finished incubating for about 2.5 hours
straight. 16 June 2015. |
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Today, 16 June 2015,
Eleanor Beagan and I arrived at 10:35 a.m. The female was incubating
but the orange-banded male wasn't close by. |
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Kara, another volunteer, arrived about
11:30 and told us the male was foraging in the driftwood down the
beach half way between the snow fence and the lifeguards. It worked
its way back towards the roped-off area and changed over incubation with the female
at 12:50 p.m |
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At 1:27 the female was feeding amongst
the driftwood near the water's edge when suddenly she called and
took off southwest over the lake way out then zig-zagged back north
over the white buoys and we lost sight of her in front of Ontario
Place. A Red-tailed Hawk overhead may have caused her to take
flight. The incubating male left the nest at 1:45 and went to the
water's edge, returning at 1:53. During that time the nest was
unattended. Again at 2:35, the male left the nest unattended and ran
to the water's edge where he walked north. At 2:48 the male returned
to nest and continued incubating. We hope the female came back after
Eleanor and I left at 3:45. Hugh Currie arrived at about 2 p.m. |
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Good news: Wendy
Hunter reported the female returned to incubate after 5 hours away.
The male was happy to see her! |
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Links to
more Toronto Piping Plover pages
Piping Plovers
on 27 May 2015 - page 1
Piping Plovers
on 7 and 10 June 2015 - page 2 |
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Volunteers Needed. Please
click the volunteer button on this website to help monitor the
Piping Plovers.
http://torontopipingplovers.blogspot.ca/ |
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