This morning, a block from my home in Brooklyn Center, at the corner of Ekberg Ave and France Ave N., I was surprised to see a raptor emerge from between two houses on the western side of France Avenue. The bird was flying two feet off of the ground, so I expected it to be the resident Cooper's Hawk, but when the bird passed slowly in front of my car, passing within 20 feet of me, I saw clearly it was an adult Peregrine Falcon. I did not see anything in its talons as it passed. The flight strokes were stiff-winged and the wings never got above even with the body, the bird was moving very slowly, not appearing injured, yet it reminiscent of the wing action of some peep sandpipers when flushed. I didn't have time to pursue it, had to get to work, but it made my whole day.
Mark Alt Brooklyn Center, MN P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
