Folks fret about the denatured urban landscape but we are pretty lucky around these parts. In our little corner of where Lake Ontario pours into the St. Lawrence I've seen a stone's throw (not that I tried) from the shore, other than the crows, mallards and ring-bill gulls, kingfishers, mergansers, blue herons, Caspian terms, smaller terms, cormorants plus field birds like red-wing blackbird and a bunch of warblers. But the best was yesterday seeing an osprey dive very successfully over and over right off the shoreline - widdle fishies wiggling in the wiggly death dance clutched in talons - only to be beaten away by a mod of small nesting birds. Oddly, very few pigeons. No doubt the erudite urban pie making scene is to blame.