[mou] Year-old Peregrine from Duluth is in Twin Cities

[Laura Erickson]

One of the Peregrine Falcons that hatched on the Hotel Duluth box last
year, P77 or "Diane," turned up in a Twin Cities parking lot last week,
and was photographed by a man from England.  He posted photos here:

http://homepage.mac.com/johnsound

(scroll down to "Parking Lot Raptor.")

The photographs are splendid if a bit squicky for some--she's eating a
pigeon.  It's absolutely wonderful to see such detail of a one-year-old
bird's plumage as some of her feathers have been molted into adult-type
ones while she's still got a lot of worn feathers from her immature
plumage.

I have some photos of this individual bird from last summer here:

http://www.birderblog.com/bird/Species/Hawks/PeregrineFalcon/Photos/Downtown/Daily/PEFADuluth071205.html



Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

Staff Ornithologist
Binoculars.com
www.birderblog.com

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. 
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the
winter.

			--Rachel Carson