Hello,

Did you notice anything interesting about this
peregrine? Was it particularly large or dark, allow
close approach or have any bands? Just curious.

In the middle of March I had an immature female at the
fill. Beautiful bird. She was one of the darkest
(and largest) peregrines I have ever seen. In fact
she even attacked a Canada Goose while I was there! I
watched her from about 20 feet away or so for well
over an hour.

A few not so great pictures of her can be seen at:

http://students.washington.edu/idaeus/unsorted/aaperegrine.jpg

Think this is the same bird?

Michael Dossett
Bothell, WA
Phainopepla at yahoo.com


--- Deborah Wisti-Peterson <nyneve at u.washington.edu>
wrote:
>
> hello tweets,
>
> this morning, i met a group of undergraduate
> students and dragged them
> around the montlake fill this morning for a tour of
> the birds there.
> the best sighting of the day was the male cinnamon
> teal and the peregrine
> falcon (sitting in the beaver trees). also of
> interest, and following
> trends mentioned by others on the list, were the
> change-over in the
> relative numbers of "audubon's" and "myrtle"
> butterbutts. i saw one
> female "audubon's" yellow-rumped warbler and
> zillions of singing and
> fighting "myrtle" yellow-rumped warblers. this
> change in relative
> numbers was dramatic and it occurred in less than
> one week.
>
> it was a nice day for birding, although a tad bit
> cold. we saw 49 total
> species and subspecies, as follows;
>
> pied-billed grebe
> double-crested cormorant
> great blue heron
> canada goose
> "cackling" canada goose (Branta canadensis minima)
> 20, flying over
> mallard
> gadwall
> green-winged teal
> american wigeon
> northern shoveler
> CINNAMON TEAL, 1 male on west side of central pond
> ring-necked duck
> lesser scaup
> bufflehead
> common merganser
> red-breasted merganser
> hooded merganser
> ruddy duck
> red-tailed hawk, 2 (possibly a pair shopping around
> for nesting sites?)
> peregrine falcon, appeared to be immature due to
> chocolate brown coloring
> ring-necked pheasant
> american coot
> killdeer, 1 flying over and calling -- they were
> strangely silent today
> mew gull, 14 flying over together in a group
> western gull, 1 beautifully marked individual
> glaucous-winged gull
> "olympic" (glaucous-winged x western) gull
> rock dove
> anna's hummingbird, 1 male
> american crow
> tree swallow
> violet-green swallow
> barn swallow
> black-capped chickadee
> bushtit
> marsh wren
> ruby-crowned kinglet (heard only)
> american robin
> european starling
> yellow-rumped "audubon's" warbler, 1 female
> yellow-rumped "myrtle" warbler, zillions
> savannah sparrow
> song sparrow
> white-crowned sparrow
> golden-crowned sparrow
> red-winged blackbird
> house finch
> pine siskin
> english house sparrow
>
>
> Deborah Wisti-Peterson, PhD Candidate
> nyneve at u.washington.edu
> Department of Zoology, University of Washington,
> Seattle, Wash, USA
> Visit me on the web:
> http://students.washington.edu/~nyneve/
> Love the creator? Then protect the
> creation.
>


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