Maybe a Sharpie??
Hans
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:36 PM Steve Hampton <
stevechampton at gmail.com>
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If it was blasting thru, mostly horizontal (and often quite low), at 80
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mph, then peeling up into the sky, it was a Merlin. One nearly hit me in
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the head the other day in my backyard as I was coming around the corner of
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the house.
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:12 PM HAL MICHAEL <ucd880 at comcast.net> wrote:
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I don't think that Kestrel would be viewed as any sort of threat by most
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birds. Maybe a Merlin, if you got the general sizes right.
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Hal Michael
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Board of Directors,Ecologists Without Borders (http://ecowb.org/)
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Olympia WA
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360-459-4005
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360-791-7702 (C)
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ucd880 at comcast.net
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> On 02/22/2023 7:07 PM Catherine Alexander <cma at squeakyfiddle.com>
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wrote:
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> This morning caught a flash of flight out of the corner of my eye and
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followed the bird for about 30 sec before it dove out of sight.
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> You know that thing that happens when you see something you don't quite
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understand? This was it. The flight was swallow like - nimble and quick.
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The bird, only in silhouette and in the company of a crow and some
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starlings, was closer to the size of a starling and again, swallow like in
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form. I remember sharp, narrow, longish wings and it cutting through the
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air like an acrobat, but this time not swallow like and so incredibly fast.
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It dropped out of sight just as I blinked.
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> The weird thing was that it flew right next to the crow and that crow
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immediately peeled off in a different direction.
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> Could it have been a Kestrel?
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> Catherine Alexander
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> Lakewood Neighborhood
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> South Seattle
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> Sent from my telegraph machine
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