[EBB Sightings] Peregrine Falcon at Don Edwards NWR in Newark

I went in pursuit of the stilt sandpiper (yes, it looks like one to me) mid-morning this morning at Don Edwards NWR in Newark. Without a scope, I couldn't sort out a stilt sandpiper from the greater and lesser yellowlegs that were among the dowitchers and black-necked stilts in the first pond on the right after the entrance road.  I walked out the trail into La Riviere Marsh and was honored by a direct fly-over of a magnificent PEREGRINE FALCON.  The bird gave me a good looking over before circling its way up to higher elevation and disappearing in the east beyond the "W" hotel.  Crowned sparrows and yellow-rumped warblers were busy in the trees by the boardwalk stairs.  I also saw WESTERN MEADOWLARK, HOUSE WREN, and HERMIT THRUSH. 

       
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