Had a buzz by the Radisson this morning and there was our girl playing Guardian-of-the-Nestbox - she was just perched there like an immovable object, very imposing and impressive. Ivy we saw over Portage and Main and then over the Red River immediate east of there (and north of the Provencher Street Bridge). At the time we wondered if he was off hunting but by the time we got to HSC we could see that the Immovable One had moved, so probably an aerial courtship flight. Same pattern as we have been watching in West Winnipeg actually, so it may be that the West Winnipeg and Radisson birds will be much closer with their nesting/hatching dates than they usually are - usually WW is a couple of weeks behind the Radisson.
It was a nice day for courtship flights, the wind was picking up in open areas by 11 am so soaring flights would be much easier - yesterday, Jules and Beau had to work a bit harder to get where/how high they wanted to go because of the lack of wind.
