[NatureNS] imm. peregrine (anatum) plus harrier at Grand Pre today, Dec. 15

Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:16:07 -0400
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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 ³reclaimed² 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 ³anatum² race, what Cyril Coldwell used to
call a ³Duck Hawk² -- 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
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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>
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