Gunievere spotted Monday evening, turning on her perch. sbwatcher goes back mentally to that time just a few days ago.....
Hmm, my good binocs are lost, so this is actually either a peregrine or SBMSP ( South Bend's Most Solitary Pigeon ). Movements, not very pigeon-like. The bird is turning, catching the wind, maybe trying to smell something. I look up from my bench by the CC Building, wondering if the bird is looking down. If so, surely she sees me, after all, I am the only human out here in the
after office hours. However, I don't want to give myself too much credit as being worthy of her notice.
She turns again, perhaps testing the wind. And then, without warning,
FLIGHT! And I see white and brown. And I see the peregrine shape, wings pulled in for a short flight. This ain't no pigeon !! Suddenly all the cold is worth it.
She flies over the top of a building, the building blocks my view and I lose sight of her. But then, walking back towards my car, I see a little shape in a high up window of the Tower building. I go back to the car and get my bad binocs, and oh my gosh, there is a falcon up there perching in that little window ! The window faces west, so perhaps not a good spot for stormy, blowy weather, but it is pretty calm tonight, so the falcon remains. I have discovered a falcon hiding spot! Suddenly I really like this falcon watching activity!
sbwatcher ( who really, really should not be on-line at 5 am )