A Visit to MEC; Female Still Being Elusive
September 03, 2012 - Mississauga - Executive Centre
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Yesterday I attended the Mississauga Executive Centre nest site to try, again, to identify our new resident female. I found her sleeping on the west facing “J” in the Desjardins sign and set up to try and get a good view of her. She was in perfect position, the sun was right and I was ready but it wasn’t meant to be. Two osprey came bombing through, one quite low, and that sent her packing to the nest box!! She took off over to the box ready to defend it from all comers. This was a golden opportunity to head upstairs to the monitor and try and get the elusive bottom letter of her band!! The great folks at Garda security sent me upstairs and I perched myself in front of the monitor to watch. She was on camera in the old nest bowl doing some house cleaning and was initially facing the wrong way for me to see the band. When she turned, the bottom of the band was visible and so I snapped as many pictures as I could. Due to the curved surface of the monitor and its inability to process HD images as they are meant to be seen, all of the pictures are not usable for identification. Grrrrrr……
I headed back downstairs to check on her as she was now on the landing platform. I took several good pictures of her but again she is turned the wrong way for identification of her left leg. I swear she knows what I am after and is purposely giving me a hard time. In truth, this site is very difficult for ID’s due to the height of the buildings and the positions in which the birds perch on them. I will continue to work away at it as I was successful in at least acquiring the top letter so far. You can bet that I will have the web camera open often throughout the day today in the hopes of getting lucky on a visual!!
