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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:39:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Daniel Waugh <dwaugh at u.washington.edu>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: falcons at fill

I am not yet on your list (don't enroll me until I return in a month), but
a colleague told me about you and forwarded a couple of messages on the
current sightings of the pergrines. I report here as a new birder....
I have been watching the peregrines for, I would guess, about a
week to ten days. Generally pass through there in the period between
5:30-7 AM and then back in late afternoon. There are three of them who
seem to appear fairly regularly. I have a lot of fairly detailed photos
that, when I have time, I will try to post, in the event that would help
with identifications. The birds are pretty regular in the AM; also late
PM, but not as predictable. I assume maybe they moved in when the bald
eagles who had been the morning regulars moved on (a few weeks back). The
peregrines are quite unbothered by people--maybe this is a no-no, but one
can in fact stand right under those trees and photograph without bothering
them in the least. They cruise both along the edge of the marsh (in the
direction of Husky Stadium), occasionally to the north over the
grasslands, and often are out in the middle of the bay or just around
behind the trees to the East in the lily pad area. Tendency is that two
of them hunt together.
Other observations in past few weeks (perhaps noted by others on
your list). The male pheasant over near Urban Horticulture seems at one
point possibly to have had two families--one morning I saw him and two
females, one with one chick and the other with half a dozen. That was
before all the haying and underbrush cutting which has taken place
recently. The more recent sightings included only one of the females and
two chicks. This morning only the male. Don't know what happened to the
rest.
Dan Waugh
UW History Dept.