Subject: Cruising with a peregrine
Date: Sep 22 19:45:26 1997
From: Janet Carroll - jrc at pop.seanet.com


While all the rest of you were out on great birding trips this weekend,
I had other obligations. But I did have one experience that lifted my
birding spirits. I was driving up Marine View Drive in Everett heading
north and just to my right a peregrine falcon few into view. The falcon
and I cruised along at a speed of between 35 and 40 mph with the falcon
flying just front of me over the trees along the road. We traveled this
way for about a mile before the falcon banked to the left and headed out
to Jetty Island. Ah, the simple pleasures.

And then there are the aggrevations. There are rafts of ducks now on
the west side of Jetty Island. Late in the afternoon on Sunday I could
see two jet skiers zooming into the rafts having great fun, I assume,
harassing the ducks.

I prefer to think about the peregrine.

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Janet Carroll
Everett WA
jrc at jrc.seanet.com
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