Ossie Home Alone at Mississauga North
August 12, 2013 - International, National and Local News
Tracy Simpson Reports:
Well. On Friday he had two girls arguing over him. On Saturday he had one girl hanging out with him. Yesterday little Ossie was alone at the Revenue Canada building and seemed to be enjoying time to himself to sleep and do some feather maintenance.
Watching him I was feeling a little nostalgic and thinking about the fledge watch at William Osler last year with him and his sister. When he was just a juvenile at William Osler, he and his sister Tobi spent much of their time teasing one another. He being the older of the two would often take advantage of his sister’s wobbly growth period, sneaking up on her and plucking down off of her rump after which he would happily bounce down the ledge before she could catch him. He thought that it was just a gas! As flighted juveniles, the games between the two would get rather racous and it was always tit for tat. His sister would fly by him roosting on the H sign at the hospital and bonk him on the head with her foot as she flew through and in return he would fly into the ledge while she was sleeping and grab her by the tail with both feet, hanging on while she wailed and dragged him down the ledge. All of these games along with the training by his father, Hurricane, set him on a course to be ready for days like these. He has shown us over the past few days that he has the potential to be a great territorial male and boy does he ever look like Hurricane!
Yesterday he was quite happy for the break though, resting on the northeast corner of the Revenue Canada building on his own. As I watched, his head was swivelling north, then east and finally south towards the MEC complex that he could see quite clearly several kilometres south. He has learned well by the experience of his father that when the girls get into it, you just simply get out of the way. On this day he was doing just that. Out of the fray but keeping his eye on everybody around him. The MEC territory is the closest to Mississauga North whereas George St. in Brampton is almost 10km away. We still have migration and a whole lot of activity to come but we do hope that Ossie is successful in setting up a territory of his own.
I was able to get some pictures of this handsome young man that I do hope you enjoy.
