Today I was at Klineline park in Salmon Creek (Vancouver, WA) when I saw the partially eaten carcass of a cormorant on the shore of the main pond. ?It seemed like a falcon kill, except I didn't think that they hunted such large birds. ?About half an hour later, while walking toward the smaller pond, I spotted a juvenile Peregrine Falcon under a tree, eating something on the lawn. ?I took some ID shots, not the greatest because of very low light conditions, so they aren't going on Flickr. ?I went back later and saw that the ?bird it had been eating was a duck, probably an American Wigeon.??Other birds noted at the park were American Coots, American Wigeons, a single male Common Goldeneye, a single male Common Merganser, a California gull, two Double-crested Cormorants, three Cackling Geese, a Belted Kingfisher, several Mallards, ?a Spotted Towhee and two California Scrub Jays.?

Michelle MaaniSalmon CreekVancouver, Washington