West Winnipeg - 2009 / Ivy & Jules

[photosbydennis]

A few more West Winnipeg photos have been added.
http://www.pbase.com/photosbydennis/west_wpg_peregrines

[msdolittle]

it's making me mental ... is west winnipeg down portage ... or charleswood?

[allikat]

Saw Ivy and Jules again today...I'm so lucky that I get to see both pairs to and from work. 

Not sure who was perched on the North East corner of the building this afternoon, but someone was out hunting again....falcon doing fancy flying and stooping gulls again!  Oh and yes, I parked in a nearby parking lot to observe all of the excitement!   

[irenekl]

I'm all for a Phanatics get-to-gether on B's rooftop.  I had to miss the gathering last year and was so sorry I did.  How many can you host up there?!

[bcbird]

I'm in the Okanagan Valley, where we have a few eagles.  My Sister in law lives in Courtenay waterside and the eagles are gloriously everywhere!
Still, though, I'd love to see a peregrine.

[bev.]

Bcbird

Where are you in BC.
I go to the eagle  fledges.
they are my nest love .
Very majestic..

[Loriann]

Our 'tower' birds here in mississauga at the St Lawrence plant live on seagulls ( being right beside Lake Ontario).  the guy who i talk to there told me that they are forever wiping seagull heads off their cars ( must not taste good.. or too crunchy) and finding corpses in the lots under the silos.  (yum)..

[bccs]

It's a great building Ballywing. We just moved here a little over 2 years ago and they gutted and redid the place to our specs. Till the new Hydro came along, we had the greenest one in Wpg. Even our water is collected from rain and then filtered and used throughout the building.
The neighbourhood can be a little rough, but everything is a tradeoff.

[bcbird]

Moonstar, I also would love to see a peregrine in real life.
I'm fortunate enough to see bald eagles regularly, though.

[ballywing]

Name the time TPC, I certainly have the place. And it's not your average rooftop with guck all over the place, we have a nice bouncy type flooring, picnic tables, garden and I'm working on a bbq.

Geez! - I wanna work at your building!!! 

[Moonstar]

I sure hope I can make the Phanatics get together this year.  Would love to meet the other Phanatics here.  Would love to see a Peregrine in real life.  

[bccs]

Name the time TPC, I certainly have the place. And it's not your average rooftop with guck all over the place, we have a nice bouncy type flooring, picnic tables, garden and I'm working on a bbq.

[The Peregrine Chick]

Might have to arrange the next Phanatics Get-Together on B's rooftop ... I know Dennis is itching to get back up there!! 

[bccs]

I envy you both!  It's harder in downtown Wpg, when you don't have a window seat OR co-workers who get it (remember after Black Friday, those who thought we were nuts for sobbing at our desks?). 

I am SO glad you have free access!   

Hi Liz. If you'd like you could come over to my building I'll take you up on the roof. I have a pretty good view of 3 or 4 of the places they like to hang out. And I have binoculars so you could get a close up view.

[The Peregrine Chick]

On my way home today, I thought I saw a falcon trying to hunt a sea gull.  There was some pretty fancy flying happening and some stooping.  All I saw was a falcon and lots of gulls scatter 

Oh, they like gull, some birds more than others and some nestsites more than others.  At the Radisson we get more shorebird remains, same at the Diner in West Winnipeg.  At the U of M however, we were hip deep in gull parts when the birds nested there - it was just a couple of minutes from the bend in the Red by St Norbert where the gulls congregate so they were like the pigeons downtown.  When we had birds hanging out more regularly on the Legislature, we used to find, almost exclusively, the wings from blue and green winged teal (a smallish duck). 

Glad to hear you pulled over Allikat!!