AWESOME NEWS!!!

[Redwingtom]

A pair of falcons have taken up residence in the Wood County Courthouse clock tower!



Courting Falcons

[Class of 61]

Tom, In addition to this news, I was preparing to fertilize my back yard two days ago, when I received a call from my son in Colo. While seated on my lawn tractor and talking a FALCON landed for a brief moment on the back lawn...I started to tell my son this, when the bird took off again. ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!

[Redwingtom]

That would be cool if it was. The only thing that makes me pause is that there are waaaaaay more red-tail hawks in the area.

Red-Tail Hawk:


Peregrine Falcon:


And they look an awful lot like falcons...in fact for many years I was always told that all those red-tail hawks I was seeing were actually falcons.

[Class of 61]

That would be cool if it was. The only thing that makes me pause is that there are waaaaaay more red-tail hawks in the area.

Red-Tail Hawk:


Peregrine Falcon:


And they look an awful lot like falcons...in fact for many years I was always told that all those red-tail hawks I was seeing were actually falcons.

Thanks for the pix...while we DO have redtailed hawks in our area, the coloration and appearance of this bird definitely looked like a Falcon to me...

[Redwingtom]

Falcon Awesome!!

[Lord_Byron]

When assessing red-tail hawks and falcons, size matters.

The hawks are considerably larger than falccons. An adult female pergrine is about the size of a crow, with the male a little smaller.

[h2oville rocket]

For years I had one that would fly and perch on a ledge above my office. Lived over at the Commodore Perry-(no idea how they could afford the rent-didn't seem to be working). It was pretty cool when I could see her (him?) take off fom the CP and follow the whole flight over to my office.

61- I'm guessing he probably helped you fertilize your lawn?