Manitoba Peregrines > Radisson Peregrines
Radisson - 2010 / Ivy & Princess
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Fantastic report Cooper, so glad you saw this.
Kinderchick:
Excellent, Cooper! Lucky you! :D
Cooper:
There's at least 4, maybe the whole family, cavorting downtown between the Rogers and Hydro buildings this afternoon. At first I thought I wasn't going to see anyone - no one in their usual spots on letters and whatnot - but then I saw one come in for landing on the roof below the Hydro sign. I watched as he or she went a running down the roof to the northeast corner where he sat.
Meanwhile I spied someone, a juvie I think, try to land on one of the apparatus on the Rogers building but couldn't quite "stick" the landing, so circled around. When along came a parent (I think) gliding effortlessly behind juvie. When they both got to the front Portage side of the building, there arose such a kacking that I assume there were more birds there. Of course they could have been kacking at each other too.
Anyway gliding parent was now in front as they circled back toward me and circling up. Juvie was a flapping and coasting to keep up. Up, up, up they went, circling higher and higher. I could hear them talking to each other now and then and I watched as they circled ever higher and higher. Then I noticed that they were joining someone else up there. So I watched as now three birds continued circling higher and higher until I could tell they were in the clouds. They were just three small dots now and eventually I lost them up there. I watched for a while longer hoping I'd see them come down again but no such luck and I had a crick in my neck by then. Truly amazing though!
Kinderchick:
--- Quote from: irenekl on July 24, 2010, 10:28 ---A blue heron makes regular stops at a fish pond in my friends backyard in North Kildonan. First sited this last summer and has been there as recently as last week. They have witnessed it take fish and simply just stand around til it decides to fly off.
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A blue heron in a backyard! Awesome, irenekl! 8) But does he take their "pet" fish? :o That wouldn't be too thrilling for them. ::) Or maybe it's a neighbourhood pond you're speaking of. :P
irenekl:
A blue heron makes regular stops at a fish pond in my friends backyard in North Kildonan. First sited this last summer and has been there as recently as last week. They have witnessed it take fish and simply just stand around til it decides to fly off.
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