Last night, as I was driving out of the Red Lot parking area at Port
Columbus (after an unexpectedly longer stay out east with my in-laws
than I had planned), I observed a juvenile Peregrine Falcon hunting
along the fence that divides the parking lot from the southern runways.
I'd fathom a guess that it was preying on the bumper crop of Mourning
Doves present at the airport.  This was a lucky sighting for me as I had
yet to see a Peregrine Falcon this year.

 

I don't know if the bird is going to hang out there, but if anyone is
going to the airport this week, keep your eyes open! The Red Lot itself
is a pay lot, so I suppose someone could go, get a ticket at the gate,
and cruise around the edge of the parking lot hoping to see the bird,
but that would probably constitute as "Suspicious Behavior" and I don't
know that I would advise it...

 

Andy Sewell

Columbus, Ohio


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