Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: campbellsoup on December 22, 2010, 04:07:21 PM
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Although not exactly rare, in case you want a pretty much guaranteed sighting - there is one daily at the corner of Coxwell Avenue and Eastern - there is a small apartment building on the north east corner which has a large side/back yard which is freely accessable to the public.
Our local sharp shinned is there pretty much daily - I see it usually 2 to 5 times/day, often sitting menacingly :twisted: up in the weeping willow and has a steady diet of pigeons.
Just an FYI
Oh, and here is a link to pics our resident hawk: http://picasaweb.google.com/liisa05/201 ... irectlink# (http://picasaweb.google.com/liisa05/20101216December2010Hawk?authkey=Gv1sRgCOi1le3RhceLKA&feat=directlink#)
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This is a cooper's hawk, not a sharpie. A sharpie can't really take down a pigeon, let alone greatly outweigh one like in these pictures. In fact, I think it is a rather large female, it just looks so big. Nice bird anyways!
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I stand corrected. :)
Our resident Coopers had another nice pigeon meal yesterday. Sitting as plain as day right in front of us.
Merry Christmas...well not for the pigeon.