1630h
We haven't had Smiley napping on the box or Smiley & Joli waltzing in the nestbox but we do have a very large female hanging out on the Rogers sign right now and first thing this morning she spent a couple of minutes at the nestbox. Though both Joli and Smiley are bigger than our Manitoba hatched birds at the moment, this bird just seems that much bigger. Not enough time to identify who she was when she visited the nestbox but enough to say that it looked like she had a particularly dark band on her left leg, so maybe black or more probably black over red. We say she looks large, for those who are downtown, she is larger than the opening/the loop in the 2nd "R" on the Rogers sign. Both my impression from the camera and Dennis from street level was that she is very large - this is the same reaction we had every time we came across Alice here in town (she spent the summer of 2010 in Winnipeg). With luck, the bird will come to the nestbox again today or hang around until tomorrow and I might get another oppotunity to read her band number - keep your fingers crossed.
