The First Riverdale Street Sale was originally called “Where is Fred” street sale, named after the infamous guinea fowl roaming the west end of Langley Ave for about 6 months ending May 1990. Fred suddenly appeared, wandering about searching for a mate, calling out in a horrible rusty metal rubbing rusty metal pitch. Some people thought it was a runaway from the farm but they claimed it wasn’t, others thought a family living on Riverdale Ave which was known to have live birds used for consumption lost an inmate, but the origin of the bird was never found out.
The Riverdale Farm sent up skilled bird catchers with no luck, they even brought up a female guinea fowl from their flock but she wasn’t enticing enough for this frisky fellow. One day neigbours noticed the bird going to one spot on a regular basis and went to see what was up; they discovered Fred built a nest along the driveway of 21 Langley Ave under some bushes and than for the next 38 days laid 19 perfect eggs, one every other day. The Riverdale Farm caught the infamous Frederica sitting on her nest, the new name given to her by the neighbourhood kids and removed her to a new home at the Riverdale Farm.
Sandi Akins
The Riverdale Farm sent up skilled bird catchers with no luck, they even brought up a female guinea fowl from their flock but she wasn’t enticing enough for this frisky fellow. One day neigbours noticed the bird going to one spot on a regular basis and went to see what was up; they discovered Fred built a nest along the driveway of 21 Langley Ave under some bushes and than for the next 38 days laid 19 perfect eggs, one every other day. The Riverdale Farm caught the infamous Frederica sitting on her nest, the new name given to her by the neighbourhood kids and removed her to a new home at the Riverdale Farm.
Sandi Akins
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