[obol] FW: Peregrine Falcon at Oaks Amusement Park

[Don Baccus]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:24 PM, gneavoll at comcast.net wrote:

>
>> Peale's PEREGRINE FALCON (ad.) in strong flight over Portland's  
>> Oaks Amusement
>> Park this a.m. (Thursday, 6/26/08). Lighted on high crossbar of  
>> tall tower
>> adjacent, vocalizing loudly.
>>
>> George Neavoll
>> S.W. Portland


This reminds me ... a couple of weeks ago I was walking a block north  
of Foster at about 56th - the heart of the light industrial zone on  
Foster - just happened to look up and saw a peregrine chasing two  
pigeons who were circling like crazy trying to escape.  Didn't see the  
end result as the pigeons broke off circling and fled south and I lost  
sight due to the mass of buildings in between me and Foster.

Didn't have my binoculars and they were backlit so didn't get an age,  
etc, but it was a pretty cool sighting for this part of SE PDX.

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