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Dec. 15, 2006 - I checked the main road across the Grand Pre dykelands, and the immature PEREGRINE FALCON was sitting on the top of a power pole about half-way across the łreclaimed˛ marshland. I was able to view it closely with my scope from inside the car. Its moustache marks are very heavy and bold on this very dark bird, very dark brown on its back and heavily streaked underneath, with a blue-gray cere. The heavy moustaches etc. suggest this immature is of the łanatum˛ race, what Cyril Coldwell used to call a łDuck Hawk˛ -- this was the most heavily endangered race of peregrine. I also saw a first-year NORTHERN HARRIER, a large female, harrying at low altitude over the fields not far from the peregrine. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- łOur ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.˛ -- Whitney M. Young -- [found in Nov. 2/06 Chronicle Herald] ----------------------
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