Just found them behind the Food Basics with the help from a gentleman and a camera trotting young lad. The birds are on the northern embankment of the pathway where many cars traverse back and forth. One even started following me along the road! The one with injured leg has been sitting down in one place and eating grass. I don't see how it can get any better without specialized help. Lovely bird.
Perhaps it can be taken to the Toronto Wildlife Centre? Certainly these birds don't belong in a Food Basiscs parking lot...but apparently they've been there a while. I wonder how they got there. There were a few that were seen near Bethesda and Bayview last year. That's approximately 10KM almost straight north from the Food Basics plaza. Could these been the same ones?
About one year ago, I kid you not, I did see a fat type of bird that flew down the 404 one morning (shortly after the Bethesda sighting and before the Food Basics sighting of last year) and it flew very fast and straight. Almost like a fat white pidgeon that was shot out of a cannon. Now I can't say what it is that I saw, but I was always wondering.
Anyway, like you said, it's a lovely bird, an interesting sighting...worth a look for sure.
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