[Tweeters] ID help please?

[Hans-Joachim Feddern]

Maybe a Sharpie??

Hans

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:36 PM Steve Hampton <stevechampton at gmail.com>
wrote:


> If it was blasting thru, mostly horizontal (and often quite low), at 80

> mph, then peeling up into the sky, it was a Merlin. One nearly hit me in

> the head the other day in my backyard as I was coming around the corner of

> the house.

>

>

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:12 PM HAL MICHAEL <ucd880 at comcast.net> wrote:

>

>> I don't think that Kestrel would be viewed as any sort of threat by most

>> birds.  Maybe a Merlin, if you got the general sizes right.

>>

>> Hal Michael

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>> Olympia WA

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>>

>> > On 02/22/2023 7:07 PM Catherine Alexander <cma at squeakyfiddle.com>

>> wrote:

>> >

>> >

>> > This morning caught a flash of flight out of the corner of my eye and

>> followed the bird for about 30 sec before it dove out of sight.

>> >

>> > You know that thing that happens when you see something you don’t quite

>> understand? This was it. The flight was swallow like - nimble and quick.

>> The bird, only in silhouette and in the company of a crow and some

>> starlings, was closer to the size of a starling and again, swallow like in

>> form. I remember sharp, narrow, longish wings and it cutting through the

>> air like an acrobat, but this time not swallow like and so incredibly fast.

>> It dropped out of sight just as I blinked.

>> >

>> > The weird thing was that it flew right next to the crow and that crow

>> immediately peeled off in a different direction.

>> >

>> > Could it have been a Kestrel?

>> >

>> > Catherine Alexander

>> > Lakewood Neighborhood

>> > South Seattle

>> >

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