A Brit abroad

Winter on the way?

Caz Taylor and I birded the City of Davis Wetlands today. I have to confess I felt a little guilty dragging Caz off to the sewage treatment works on her birthday! The birding was perhaps more typical of winter than fall: we saw a Short-eared Owl on the entrance road, a Lesser Scaup in with thousands of ducks on Stormwater Lagoon, and this Peregrine causing mayhem amongst the local blackbirds.

This bird is much smaller than the large female anatum Peregrine that has been seen here over the last month, suggesting that it's a male. I'm not so good on ageing raptors or assigning them to a particular race, so any comments on this bird are welcome.

Posted by rjhall at September 14, 2004 2:28 AM