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Around 6:30 this evening I noticed what I first thought was a juvenile = crow flying short distances from treetop to treetop in a neighbor's = yard. It was raining at the time, and viewing from my bedroom window = made it difficult to identify the bird without optics. After watching = it for a couple of seconds I realized that it was one of the larger = falcons. When it stopped and perched on a treetop, I quickly set up my = scope. I was delighted to see a juvenile Peregrine Falcon perched there = in the rain. The bird was cooperative for several minutes, allowing my = parents to have a look through my scope. I'm guessing that this was one = of the birds raised from a Peregrine pair in the Minnesota River valley = not far from my house, although I've never seen one around my yard until = now.=20 -Bob Dunlap, Chaska ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C48DFA.A18BA340 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Around 6:30 this evening I noticed what = I=20 first thought was a juvenile crow flying short distances from = treetop to=20 treetop in a neighbor's yard. It was raining at the time, and = viewing from=20 my bedroom window made it difficult to identify the bird without = optics. =20 After watching it for a couple of seconds I realized that it was one of = the=20 larger falcons. When it stopped and perched on a treetop, I = quickly set up=20 my scope. I was delighted to see a juvenile Peregrine Falcon = perched there=20 in the rain. The bird was cooperative for several minutes, = allowing my=20 parents to have a look through my scope. I'm guessing that this = was one of=20 the birds raised from a Peregrine pair in the Minnesota River = valley not=20 far from my house, although I've never seen one around my yard until = now.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Bob Dunlap, = Chaska</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000E_01C48DFA.A18BA340--