Once again--many thanks to Mike Waller at the Woodland Park Zoo, for his
regular updates on the birds there. Thanks to Anna Coles for some
enthusiastic reports while she was downtown looking up. And regards to
Irene Wanner for her nudges about another update. (You're on your own
from here, Irene!) [Oh, yes--and thanks to all of you who supported the
Falcon Research Group by buying t-shirts. Wear them proudly!]

>From now on, check the Hotline at 517-7363 for news. This hotline will be
shutting down soon, since the nesting/fledging activity is nearly over
for this season.

So far, we've met the "Peregrine Odds".... one out of three young
Peregrines make it through their first year. This year's "baby boy" has
had great training-- 2:1-- from his parents, Stewart and Belle. He should
be hunting for himself in the next week. And then the WAMU Family should
break up. // Last year, Belle arrived on the scene on about August 8,
just after Stewart had finished his training of the young female
fledgling of 1994, Olive. And last year's family was just about exactly a
month "behind" this year's family.

Nobody seems to know if Stewart and Belle will stay-- or go-- for the
winter. The food source is certainly stable.... rock doves and starlings,
etc. Will we see the usual wintering Peregrines back again?-- Angeline,
somewhere around downtown, and Freeway/The Freeway Bird, on the Ship
Canal Bridge. (They usually come back in early-to-late September.)

And Ruth Taylor, the fun, informative, stalwart reporter on the Peregrine
Hotline, reports two more Peregrines to be seen locally. One is familiar
to Peregrine watchers-- a female at the Grain Terminal. One is newer-- a
young female, seen frequently on the SAFECO building since about April.

There's still more to see. Wow! We may now have Peregrines WINTER AND
SUMMER! What a thrill for the falcophiles! Keep looking!
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And so, Friends--this observer is off to... Texas! Wish me luck. I'll
toast you with hot barbecue and cold beer. And thanks to all of you who
sent ideas about birding-in-Texas-in-July. I'll let you know! --EB

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