HOLY SHEEP DIP!!
This has been the best day EVER!!! As I was walking up the ramp to get to the parkade top level I saw FOUR, count 'em four, beautiful chicks soaring and swooping and kacking and playing. I ran as fast as I could to the top of the ramp in time to see them doing the talon touching, twisting, turning thing. Man is that ever magnificent!!!
They soared around the MTS tower and once around the McK building before two went and landed on the Scotia Band building one on the McK building and one went and displaced Hurricane off the MTS tower. I was smiling from ear to ear by the time I got to the west side of the parkade where I met RCMF. She just throws up her hands and says, "Ya missed it!" I told her, "Nope, I saw the whole thing!" Right after that the one on the MTS tower flew over to the lower roof of the McK building with lunch, so I am guessing that the kerfuffle when he/she displaced Hurricane was over the noon meal. It was a big chunk o' meat too. Well, all the other kids dove right in and that was the last I saw of them. They prolly had to nap after that big meal.
RCMF had to leave and I hung around for another half hour or so. Oh, yeah, and while we were oohing and aahing over what we had just seen a merlin flew right past us no farther than 15 feet away. I said, "hey that's a merlin." and RCMF said, "really, they are really small." Well they are compared to our Peregrines.
So while I was waiting to see if any of the kids would show themselves. In swoops Zeus and displaces Hurricane off the clock tower. She flew off to the north and he flew up to the Scotia building. Must have been having a domestic I guess as this was the first that Zeus had been seen today.
Well, it was gettin' pretty darn chilly on the roof and the clouds are really moving in so I decided that I couldn't wait any longer. It was too cold for me and I didn't have a jacket. Silly me.
So, went and wandered the mall til bus time. When I came out the only one visible was Zeus, still on the Scotia building. And that's all I know.....
