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Peregrine Falcon on Back Patio

petie11o5 Mar 25, 2009 04:36 PM

So I'm off for spring break this week and as I was walking into our kitchen I noticed a big bird stuck in our screened-in-patio. It turned out to be a Peregrine Falcon which are very rare and supposedly just made it off the endangered species list in 1999 but are still listed as "rare". There was also another smaller bird in our patio that the falcon had caught and eaten. But the falcon had actually gone through the screens and was stuck in the patio. It must have been "dive bombing" after the bird and went right through our screended-in-patio Here are some pics. Sorry about the quality I didn't want to get too close becasue the Falcon was freaking out everytime it saw us.

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falconess May 11, 2009 09:33 AM

Sorry. Not a Peregrine. Your pics are kind of fuzzy, but you have a Sharp Shinned Hawk. These are very common, and like the Cooper's Hawk, frequent visitors to backyards, and especially bird feeders.

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