[Tweeters] Prairie Falcon is also likely

[Ed Newbold]

Hi Elaine and Tweeters,
We don't go up to Sunrise or Paradise in the fall that often but we are surprised by how regularly we see Prairie Falcons when we do.  Prairie Falcons are Ground-Squirrel specialists of a sort and there are many many Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels in that habitat.  I have thought all the Prairie Falcons I've seen up there were female-sized but a male Prairie Falcon would fit your size description perfectly Elaine, and if it were happily soaring in an updraft, it seems like that behavior could fit a Prairie Falcon also.  
Thanks Elaine and thanks Dan Reiff for the horrible building-fatality report from Chicago, sad as it was
Best wishes,
Ed Newbold   ednewbold1 at yahoo.com Beacon Hill, Seattle


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