[Ontbirds]Peregrines @ Yonge & Bloor - YES (Jan. 3/08)

[Donald Davis]

I get an unobstructed view of the CIBC and The Bay
buildings from the large windows on the north side of
our building (Child Welfare Centre - Children's Aid
Society of Toronto  - 30 Isabella). AT 9:35 am this
morning I took a look at these buildings, with
beautful blue sky in the background. No
peregrines...except when I took a quick glance to my
left and on the south-east corner ledge of the Comfort
Hotel on Charles Street sat one peregrine - possibly
also warming up in the sun! There is an abundant
supply of pigeons in the area, and they had all
scattered. I watched this bird for about 5 minutes
before he or she took off for the tall buildings on
the north side of Bloor near Church. 

Don Davis
Toronto, ON

--- David Selley <dselley at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Two Peregrine falcons were roosting today on the
> CIBC building on the North
> West corner of Yonge and Bloor in Toronto.
> Periodically this afternoon
> (after the snow) they dashed about in fantastic
> aerial displays, diving and
> soaring, sometimes seeming to miss each other by a
> few feet. We had not seen
> them much recently.
> 
>  
> 
> Get off the subway at Yonge and Bloor and look up to
> the top of the CIBC
> building near the illuminated (all day and all night
> - ugh!) sign. We are on
> the 38th floor of 44 Charles Street West so we get a
> great view.
> Occasionally one will zip past a couple of feet from
> our window. We see them
> roosting on the South and West sides. They may roost
> on the other sides as
> well but we would not see them. They usually roost
> quite a long way apart,
> but within sight of each other.
> 
>  
> 
> David and Barbara Selley
> 
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