Peregrine Falcon--Hantz Road, Rudyard, MI: Noon, Monday, January 8, 2007 via Chuck MacDonald

[C MacDonald]

    We had an extreme close-up view of an immature Peregrine Falcon, perched
atop a telephone pole today at Noon near Rudyard. We cruised Centerline Road
twice looking for snowy owls, with no luck.  We then crossed I-75 to Hantz
Road and headed south, parallel to Centerline Road. At Noon I stopped near
the UP Hay Co. barn to watch two flying rough-legged hawks (light-phase).
We then saw the immature peregrine looking down at us from a utility pole
directly in front of us, on the east side of Hantz Road.  I tried to "wish"
this bird into a Prairie Falcon or a Gyrfalcon with no luck. The five-minute
close-up view while perched and the following in-flight view as the bird
flew away toward I-75 left no doubt-------immature peregrine falcon.  After
a break for lunch we returned at 1:00 P.M. and cruised both Hantz Road and
Centerline Road.  We did not find the peregrine again, no snowy owls either.

      Other miscellany:   Northern Shrike in pursuit of a snow bunting, the
snow bunting escaped (Riverside Drive and 22 Mile Road, 1:30 P.M.)

                                   Kestrel:  Riverside Drive and 9 Mile Road
(1:45 P.M.)

 

Chuck MacDonald

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/mich-listers/attachments/20070108/5f702cf5/attachment.html