[EBB Sightings] Peal's Peregrine at Coyote Hills

Rusty Scalf wrote:

> We had a fine GGAS outing today at Coyote Hills, and one highlight was
> a 'Pealii' Peregrine Falcon. Beautiful bird. We first saw it atop the
> large pointed rock on the hilltop west of the visitor's center. Later
> it flew directly overhead.

Yes - gorgeous - and huge. When we first noticed her (gotta be her), a 
Northern Harrier was flying around the rock, and the two appeared to be 
much of a size. And those were just two of the six kinds of raptors (not 
counting the buzzards) that we saw.

But for me the thrill of the day was my first-ever snipe - I was looking 
down a canal where one was reputed to have just disappeared, and it flew 
right across the field of my binocs from side to side....

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