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From: horvath@granite.cr.bull.com (John Horvath)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Lost Homing Pigeon
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.141732.21330@granite.cr.bull.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 14:17:32 GMT
References: <2227@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <1990Sep6.140149.18599@granite.cr.bull.com> <1990Sep6.224033.10637@nmt.edu>
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In article <1990Sep6.224033.10637@nmt.edu> john@nmt.edu (John Shipman) writes:
>...
>as if someone had thrown a grenade.  It was my first
>peregrine.  My pictures of this splendid bird showed that it
                ^^^^^^^^
>was a Peale's Falcon (_Falco peregrinus pealei_), a
>distinctly dark race of peregrine that ranges along the
>coasts of the Pacific Northwest.

Wow! You not only got to see this display but got a picture of
it that was *in focus* enough to see the race features!
Pretty lucky and/or skillfull.

All my raptor photos are either blurry dots or beautifull blue
sky and clouds.

When I saw my first 'Duck Hawk' at Great Meadows in Concord,MA it
went screaming past, appropriately enough, a sitting flock of teals.
Most of the screaming was from a group of birders, "Aghh! A
Peregrine!"  The teals just froze.