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Peregrine Falcon |
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Photos by Laura Bunton Peregrine Falcon - Village Creek, Tarrant
County, April 14, 2009 |
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Photos by Laura Bunton Peregrine Falcon - Village Creek, Tarrant
County, April 14, 2009 |
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Photo by Ken Nanney Peregrine Falcon. July 17, 1980. Possum Kingdom Lake, Palo Pinto County.
This unique record remains an enigma. Late migrant? Early
migrant? Does a pair or two perhaps nest somewhere in a remote canyon along the
Brazos River in Palo Pinto or Young Counties? I first spotted the falcon
standing on the beach on the unsettled north shore of the lake as I cruised
along in my boat. I viewed it well enough to determine that it showed no signs
of being an escaped falconer's bird and that it was of the southern "anatum"
form rather than the far northern "tundrius". I was so dumbfounded by the
sighting that I forgot to take a picture until the falcon had taken flight and
towered high in the sky [Ken Nanney]. |
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