!!! Bad Day to be Redtail Hawk
January 04, 2013 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
This morning around 9 am a coworker cam running over to my desk to inform me that there was a dead peregrine falcon on the rooftop outside her window.
It was not one of our juveniles but instead a Juvenile Red Tail Hawk, she was very large and absolutely gorgeous. I saw her two days ago hunting over the Bell Building across the street and remember thinking - you better not let O’connor see you!
Mark informed me that an adult Red Tail wouldn’t come near the nest site however this gal being a juvenile wouldn’t have known the danger. I expect she did run into O’connor as she was directly between the nest site building and the centre tower and her injuries and positioning would indicate she had been aggressively driven to the rooftop.
Both Jack and O’Connor have been velcroed to the nest ledge for the past 5 hours in the exact same positions so I expect this altercation happened very early this morning as both seem to be ‘on alert’.
Many thanks to the Security Team at Sunlife for taking me out and helping with the retreival of her body.
!!! RTH - Round Two!!
January 04, 2013 - Etobicoke - Sun Life Centre
Kathy Reports:
So before I left the office I decided to see if our dynamic duo had moved at all and in fact by 3:30 both were gone from the ledge. So I went out the back entrance thinking I might catch them on the Moneris sign when suddenly I saw O’Connor’s reflection in the glass doing recon over the rooftops and the area where I had removed the RTH earlier this morning.
She flew over to the West Tower building and landed on the edge as I walked down towards that tower. I had to put my head down as the wind was so sharp but I swear only about a minute went by when suddenly I heard her and jerked my head up. She was way over by Jack’s ‘Man Cave’ building and I honestly thought I’d lost my mind. No way she could get there that fast could she? Well she can and was engaged in dive bombing another RTH that was hunting over that area.
She dove and chased and wailed on that bird until I saw both go down, the RTH was by some new condo towers further out and O’Connor above the bird headingg into a partial stoop. I only saw one bird come up and it was our fearless falcon. I waited and watched as she flew right back to the edge of the Moneris building and parked herself there looking quite pleased with herself.
She’s had a busy day and she’s quite a contrast to our previous female who, in weather as bitter as this, would rather stay somewhere warm and out of sight! This girl is going to keep me on my toes!
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