Re: [SBB] Likely Peregrine Falcon at SJSU

[Nancy Teater <[[email protected]]>]

I believe peregrines have been seen and reported at the Adobe building.
Nancy
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At 10:10 AM 3/9/2005 -0800, jennifer rycenga wrote:
> You never know what you'll see if you get outside!  Today I was giving a 
> guest lecturer an hour-long tour of the San Jose State campus (where I 
> have taught for ten years).  We had just stepped out into the walkway that 
> was formerly 9th street, when I saw a bird of prey flying swiftly upwards 
> towards the Business Tower (10th and San Antonio).  When it gave some 
> quick flaps and then a glide I assumed it would be an accipter, but it was 
> just using the glide to land at the top of the Business Tower.  There, on 
> a top floor window ledge, it commenced to disassemble a small bird it had 
> caught.  During the gruesome operation (without binoculars, the identity 
> of the victim cannot be determined), the falcon was standing cooperatively 
> in profile.  While, regretably, I did not have my binoculars with me, the 
> bird was clearly a large, dark falcon, almost certainly a PEREGRINE 
> FALCON.  It had a dark hood, dark barring on its chest, and its folded 
> wings were quite pointed.  Plus, it was ea!
>  ting out in the open atop a tall building - a behavior I associate much 
> more with falcons than with accipiters.  This happened around 9:00 am.
>
> I only got to watch it for a minute (though my guest was suitably 
> impressed).  This was my first Peregrine on campus, or, for that matter, 
> in downtown San Jose.  While I know that San Francisco, Monterey, and 
> Oakland have all had building-top Peregrines,  I don't remember hearing 
> about them in San Jose's downtown.  I've seen Merlins on campus, but this 
> morning's bird was way too large for a Merlin.
>
> If this bird becomes a regular, I'll post again.  In the meantime, for 
> those brave enough to think they can park in the area, the bird was on the 
> west-facing side of the Business Tower.
>
> Jennifer Rycenga
> Half Moon Bay (home)
> SJSU (work)
> [[email protected]]
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