Subject: Re: Iona Is., Aug 18/97
Date: Aug 20 10:29:39 1997
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Michael Price wrote:

[snip..]

>
> This must be National Prey On Shorebirds Week. *Three* Peregrine Falcons
> having a three-way brannigan over the Outflow Pond, the little tundrius-race
> male getting (as is getting to be tiresome habit) rousted by the big female
> juv Peale's, then a large adult female came from nowhere to run *her* off,
> after which things seemed to settle down thus: the male and juv took turns
> every 20-30 minutes clearing shorebirds off the ponds (wotta show!), and the
> adult female went somewhere else. Best indication a falcon was incoming?
> Alarm notes from not just one or two but all the Barn Swallows. Other
> raptors there: a juv male 'Black' Merlin spending a lot of time in 'thrush'
> flight, a male Cooper's Hawk, a juv Northern Harrier, a Sharp-shinned Hawk,
> and a juv Red-tail. The tundrius Peregrine is such a pale blue-gray on his
> upperparts as to be almost blue-tinged white on the lower back. He likes to
> park it on the fence-posts of the chainlink fence surrounding the Outflow
> Pond (across the road from the Birders' Gate). Nifty.
>
Michael--

How about telling us what your secret is? This is an
amazing array of raptor activity... lucky you. :)

Tom