peregrines

I've been watching the peregrine cam   for Salt Lake.  They are getting ready to fly (within the next week possibly).  Lots of fun for us.  It would be really fun to go down with scope and binoculars and watch them learning to fly next weekend.  There are 4 eyases (baby falcons).  They were cute and stumbling around in all their white downy feathers last week.  Now the eldest is almost all molted.  The youngest is still mostly downy feathers with a few adult feathers.
Peregrines have been clocked at 200mph.  Their diet is mainly composed of other birds.  It is quite amazing to watch them kill their prey, usually mid-air.

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