I have posted some photographs of yesterday's interaction between the Gilgo Beach Gyrfalcon and a Peregrine to my Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/ . It was about 4:40 pm when the Gyr decided it wanted to take the "closest" osprey platform from the peregrine standing on it. Once displaced the Peregrine dove on the Gyr at least a half dozen times before giving up and leaving the Gyr to preen and rest. The photos were digiscoped from a sizeable distance and it was late so there was not a great deal of light but despite those limitations I did my best to document the encounter. I think that the photos are best viewed large (by clicking on the image) and then clicking the older button you can see the events as best as my camera could keep up. Also there is a somewhat boring video of the bird enjoying it hard won platform at the end of the photos.:)Thanks for your time and thanks to all those that have helped so many of us to have the opportunity to view this wonderful bird. regards, jeff davis
Downingtown, PA Checkout our bird photos at the link below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/ or for a slightly different viewing experience: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jeffamy/ "Birding Like I Have Six Months To Live" -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
