I had a nice naked-eye look at a peregrine falcon on the Microsoft campus in
Redmond this morning. I saw it flapping toward me and climbing -- it had
either been flying very low or had been on the ground -- and it then tacked
to its left, affording me an excellent view of the classic falcon shape from
a range of 30-40 yards. It seemed too dark underneath from that range, even
on a very gray day, to be a prairie falcon, and was easily too big to be a
merlin or kestrel.

Has anybody else seen a peregrine on the Eastside this winter?


Jim McCoy
jfmccoy at earthlink.net
Redmond, WA