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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 18:22:38 -0800
From: Don Baccus <dhogaza at pacifier.com>

At 05:54 PM 11/4/99 -0800, Dan Logen wrote:
> initially sitting on a pile of dirt, then flying to the
> north, foraging. Then the 10 or so of us gathered at
> this site witnessed a breathtaking repetitive attack on
> the kestrel by a peregrine! After about 7 ro 8 dives by
> the peregrine, the kestrel flew east across Chuckanut
> Drive and disappeared into trees surrounding a house.

Does someone who remembers when this was first seen want to enter
it into http://donb.photo.net/rare-birds?

I know for a fact that some of the 135 folks registered at
the site belong to neither tweeters or OBOL and would at least
enjoy learning about this bird, even if they don't race off to
twitch it.

And, of course, it would be great to have the data enshrined
in the database for future enjoyment/remembrance/analysis...

At 01:49 AM 11/4/99 -0800, Jerry Blinn wrote:

> It sat on a wire and, I swear, spotted a rodent in a
> field 75 yards away, flew over there and hovered just
> like an American Kestrel,

Yes, they do this. On my first trip to Germany on business, we
were zipping down the autobahn when I sleepily noticed a kestrel
hovering over the median strip far ahead. "A kestrel, how nice".
"oh, a EURASIAN kestrel!". That woke me up!

> Is the upper leg a normal place for a band?

No, the lower leg (metatarsus) is where the band would be placed.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR mailto:dhogaza at pacifier.com
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