Action at Mount Sinai this Weekend
April 07, 2012 - Toronto - Mount Sinai Hospital
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Frank and I joined Linda Woods this weekend to catch a view of the territorial pair at the Mount Sinai Hospital. This year their interest has turned to the nest tray installed on the eastern ledge of the building and we were delightfully surprised to see both adults on site.
At first there was no indication of an adult anywhere. Within 15 minutes of our arrival, a pair was seen soaring above the hospital moving southwest and the male was stooping the female in spectacular displays of “see what I can do”. Their soaring took them in a complete high altitude circle around the territory and finally out of our sight. A few minutes later, in flies the male to the eastern ledge where the tray is located. Into the ledge, then out. Then back in (out of our view) and then back out to the edge. The male was very interested and had a morsel of food that he was obviously attempting to draw the female in for an exchange. He lost patience and flew off with the food landing several ledges to the south where the female was hiding back out of our line of sight. The pair then made several short flights and landings back and forth on different ledges along the eastern face of the hospital and if I had to guess, based on what they were doing, which ledge they had chosen I would have said all of them!! The didn’t settle on one in particular while we were there but most certainly the third ledge south of the northeast corner was landed on the most, which coincidentally is where the tray is located. While we weren’t able to confirm their band numbers, this territory has long been held by Ranger from New York and Hunter from Ohio but sadly none of their eggs have ever hatched. Let’s hope that 2012 will be the year for them!!
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