Anyone who is interested in reading more about these falcons and seeing some spectacular photographs should go to:

http://www.falconcam-cmnh.org/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?14107


---- Clyde Witt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As I was heading  under the I-480 overpass, on Canal Rd. in Valley View this morning, I watched a
> Great Blue Heron cruising along, about 10 feet above the canal. Out of the sky, coming at him full-
> tilt-boogie was a Peregrine Falcon! Straight at the poor heron! The heron spotted her and made a
> jerky  dive to the right and the falcon zipped past, turned with one wing tip on a dime and shot back
> while the heron shifted to the left and up a bit--craning its neck to see where the falcon was. It was
> like watching a stealth fighter attack a Boeing 747. The falcon just seemed to want to harass the
> heron, not eat him.  it was probably a young one showing off for mom and dad.  I later saw the two
> juvenile females in the evening on the way home.
>
> Nothing like stopping traffic to watch birds on the way to work, I say. Much of the honking I heard
> was not coming from geese.
>
> Clyde Witt
> Sagamore Hills
>
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