Thank you to all for the thoughtful and educational replies. The consensus is that it is a Merlin.

Appreciate the folks on this list very much!

Phil McCrain
Kirkland

On Feb 2, 2014, at 11:38 AM, Philip McCrain <phil at mccrain.com> wrote:

Hello,

My wife and I made our first trip to Boundary Bay on Friday and saw a falcon that I initially thought was a Peregrine but after returning home and reviewing pictures I?m not so sure. Thinking it may have been a Prairie falcon. I have just a couple of pictures from the front of the bird, nothing showing the wing length. It went out over the bay chasing shorebirds then climbing up and away to the South. The pictures can be seen at:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.698923143463940.1073741842.208622462494013&type=3

Thoughts?

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