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[semperfiona]

Loading my car with Girl Scout cookies this morning, I heard something angrily squawking at me. I looked around, and I spotted this little guy about 20 feet above me in the Bradford pear tree, tearing pieces off what appeared to be a pigeon corpse. That's the rarest animal I've ever seen in my citified yard. Makes a change from bunnies and squirrels, ne? Of course, I took a cellphone picture, but it's crap. Too far away to see anything. The pic at right is swiped from National Geographic (the link goes to their original).

Comments

[birdbard.livejournal.com]

Cool! Amazing how Peregrine's are adapting to city life. There has been a pair nesting at Kodak's main office in Rochester for years, and they have successfully raised a number of young. It freaks folks out downtown when suddenly a falcon drops out of the sky, grabs a pigeon from the sidewalk, and flies off for lunch! LOL

[lil-mischif.livejournal.com]

[Life long conservationist here]
You really saw a Peregrine Falcon, near your house?! Wow, that's really amazingly cool!
I envy you! If you are lucky, it has moved into your neighborhood. Heck, if it was squawking at you, maybe it's moved into some crevice of your house. Keep an eye out.

If you are so inclined, I'd recommend that you contact the Audubon Society and ask them to check it out. Or at least notify them. I'm sure they would like to know. Although, if I've heard correctly, Peregrines have recently been taken off off the endangered list.

[egwenna.livejournal.com]

That is extremely cool.

One of your friend's cousins was responsible, I think.

[mousefeathers.livejournal.com]

There were feathers strewn across the new snow in my back yard a few weeks ago, in a line parallel to the roof line. No blood or flesh or bones, no signs of struggle on the ground--just feathers, in ones and very small clumps. One of the singles was even standing straight up, like a dart dropped from the sky.

I do love the resilience of nature. Life will out! *rousing cheers*

I remember when the first peregrines were moved into downtown St. Louis

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

They put up nests for I forget how many pairs of them on tall buildings downtown, including the Shell building. I recall hearing that the city makes a good habitat for peregrines, oddly enough, and that pigeons are great food for them! I've seen one myself in Forest Park. They're really pretty.

Re: I remember when the first peregrines were moved into downtown St. Louis

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Pigeons and peregrines both nest on cliffs, so they adapt well to downtown urban environments.