On the way to my shrink’s today, between San Quentin and Larkspur: a merlin, perched on the roadside wire.
So far, so good.
Posted by: Ron Sullivan
January 2, 2012
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1 | By: Monado on January 4, 2012 at 08:35 AM
Me, too, more or less. I was on my way to my shrink appointment when I saw a falcon-like-object above the subway station. It had pointed wings and a long, rounded tail with single dark bar at the end, and was rather ruddy. I thought it was a peregrine falcon but it was a little pale underneath for one of those. I’d say American kestrel but it looked bigger than that to me, and flew with a few flaps and a short glide—kestrels aren’t supposed to glide. And it has to be something that’s around the Great Lakes in winter. I really need to get out birding with someone who knows hawks. So many things I see aren’t quite like anything in the bird books.