my wife and i spent part of a foggy afternoon at the river s unit of ridgefield nwr and saw the usual suspects, but a fun encounter was a merlin perched on a bare tree on the left side of the road before marker 10, having his perch usurped by a very dark peregrine falcon...and further down the road at marker 13 was a perched american kestrel, to make a falcon trifecta ....happy new year all... steve kohl, brush prairie,wa