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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: BC on November 21, 2007, 12:18:32 PM

Title: Close Encounters of the Redtail Kind
Post by: BC on November 21, 2007, 12:18:32 PM

I was at the computer just before noon when I noticed a large bird outside, reflected in a photo. We're close to Yonge and Bloor, eighteen floors up and we see a lot of Red-tailed Hawks. I went out on the balcony and leaned over to check the edge of the roof. Nothing. I craned my neck back and, directly overhead within six feet of me, saw the underside of a preening hawk. It didn't take long for it to spot me. After the initial surprise and a brief mutual stare it flew off, dropping past me, in the direction of Ramsden Park. It was a juvenile bird.

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Post by: Kin Lau on November 21, 2007, 02:27:03 PM

Great story... thankfully it didn't "unload" in your direction before taking off :)