Outdoor Ontario
Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: Ed O'Connor on February 05, 2011, 04:21:51 PM
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About 9:30 this morning, I was coming up to the Greenwood subway station when I heard a noise like a book slamming shut--a flock of pigeons had exploded from the ground beneath a small tree on the north side of the station. I looked up just in time to see a large hawk land in the tree and steady itself, then turn around so it was facing me. Quite surprised to find it was a juvenile Goshawk, since it's much more common to see red-tails and the odd sharp-shinned in this very urbanized area. The bird sat in the tree, no more than 25 meters from the subway entrance, for about a minute and then flew off to a stand of spruce trees to the southwest.