!!! There’s no place like home
July 02, 2009 - Toronto - Sheraton Centre
Jan Chudy Reports:
For the whole day, one or more juveniles were spotted on various locations of the Sheraton - proving that it is the best place to stay in Toronto! First sighting was at 8:15, with a juvenile on the south east corner of the hotel roof. At 8:30 I spotted a juvenile on the east Sheraton antenna - I think this is a first for a Sheraton juvenile. At 10:05, one juvenile was sitting on the last “e” of Centre and one on the nest ledge. A third bird, later identified as Osler, was on the east side of 120 Adelaide. At 10:20. Osler joined his siblings at the Sheraton by landing on the north east corner of the roof. At 12:30, two juveniles were on the east side of the Sheraton roof, and so it continued until 2:10. One juvenile was on the east antenna and as I scanned the roof I realized a second juvenile was on the west antenna. As I got the bicoculars focussed on it, the one on the east antenna flew over and knocked it off! The two juveniles then put on a spectacular show of swooping and diving and talon tag, soaring higher and higher, then dropping down. After more than five minutes of this, one clearly had had enough and landed on the north east corner of the Sheraton roof. The other did a few more laps and then vanished above me over First Canadian Place. From then until 5, there were at least two juveniles in sight on various Sheraton perches.