<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Elaine and Tweeters,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thanks Elaine and thanks Dan Reiff for the horrible building-fatality report from Chicago, sad as it was</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best wishes,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ed Newbold ednewbold1@yahoo.com Beacon Hill, Seattle</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div></div></body></html>