Tobi and Ossie Amazing Today!!
July 19, 2012 - Etobicoke - William Osler
Tracy Simpson Reports:
I arrived on site at just after 6:00am to find that Tobi had flown off of the nest building roof and was now sitting squarely in the tower in Dad’s seat!! She was at the very top of the first spire on the top horizontal beam and looking quite proud of herself. She sat there preening and roosting for quite some time during which Ossie came over to visit several times. He was landing with a really good “J hook” and right in beside Tobi which shows great control and accuracy. The pair spent the rest of the morning in the tower together with Ossie occasionally trying to encourage his sister to join him back over on the ledge. At 9am, Marion and Kathy arrived for the day shift and took over watching our little “screaming 747”. Tobi started getting active around 10am and made a flight back to the building roof top that looked really good. From there she flew back over to the tower and made the landing again. She continued back and forth from the roof top to the tower several times and then just around 1:00pm, headed for the nest ledge and made it!! Tobi was now back home and received a feeding for her efforts. Then she made an excellent flight around to the north and disappeared from view. Marion and Kathy went to have a peek at where she ended up and found her on the north “H” sign!! This is a very important feat both for her confidence and for her coordination in breaking, steering and landing. Very good indeed!! Ossie was all over the place flying from the tower to the roof and then to the nest ledge. He made lots of great flights around the circumference of the hospital with fairly good landings at all stops. At around 2pm, Bruce arrived for the early evening shift and all was quiet for the first half an hour. Tobi received a few small feedings throughout the early evening and it wasn’t until 5:30pm that Ossie received his package. Not for lack of trying though. When I arrived Tobi was on the northern “H” sign and Chessie flew in with a rather large package of pigeon. In her excitement and fervor, Tobi grabbed it out of Chessie’s mouth and lknocked Mom backwards off of the sign. One of those, “ I love you, now leave!!” Ossie just couldn’t handle watching her eat all the grub anymore and flew over to join his sister on the sign. She was not in the mood to share and tried her best to shut him out but Ossie is a tenacious little man and was able to grab a corner of it. Just as they have done in past days, they each started from the outside and worked in towards one another before the squabbling broke out. No Lady and the Tramp love story here, pandemonium until the last scrap was gone!! After 20 minutes, Ossie took off to see what Dad was up to and Tobi started a preen session that would last a good hour. As the color was draining away from the night sky, Ossie was on the north side of the nest ledge, Chessie was in the tower, Hurricane was on top of the antenna and Tobi was flat out snoring on the north “H” sign.
A really big day for Tobi and excellent flights by Ossie. I can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings!!
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