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Peregrine Falcons are not frequent visitors to the park, so it was a special treat to have this juvenile make a visit. The bird perched for a few minutes before speeding off across the lake.

Great image. We did have them in small numbers every winter as the species was recovering. I had the great good fortune once to be sitting out near one of the artificial waterholes, half daydreaming, when a terrified white-wing dove fell out of the sky as fast as it could, with a peregrine right

behind. I think my being there startled both birds; there was good cover for the dove very close, just across the water, but the dove did a not-quite U-ie, and fled across the little meadow at about waist height, zig-zagging, with the peregrine gaining on the straight bits and losing a little on