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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on February 23, 2010, 04:40:36 PM

Title: Sharp shinned hawk at the Distillery District today
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on February 23, 2010, 04:40:36 PM
My fiancee and I were at the Distillery today at 3ish.  As we were walking down Mill St, I noticed a large hawk fly and land on a tower/building on the northwest corner of the Distillery. It immediately left and flew towards the condos at 70 Mill St, making this noise as it flew (http://www.kwic.com/~pagodavista/sharpshn.wav).  It landed on the top floor (7th) balcony railing and a parade of feathers came floating down. I guess it caught a nice pigeon lunch on the tower it landed on.
We watched it eat and couldn't identify it other than it looked like a red-tailed hawk, but not really.  I am using its call (linked above) as the identifier.

We left before it flew away.