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 Post subject: Re: SALT LAKE CITY ~ 2014
PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:44 pm 
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Hey ajoslc ;)

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Or maybe I will post them on FB, I do know how to do that!


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UPDATE BY BOB ON FB, ALSO THE PHOTOS MENTIONED ABOVE ARE THERE. I WAS NOT ABLE TO VIEW, BUT OTHERS SEEM TO BE ABLE TO DO SO. :egg19:


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I too am not able to view the photos, but I thank everyone for the updates regardless. I did see a peregrine briefly yesterday when I was outside mid-afternoon, flying above South Temple between JSMB and Zions across the street. I don't know why my guess is that it was Skye - I guess because she was by herself (but I don't really know who it was - it was a fledge though).


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:09 am 
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For those of you not on Facebook or who can't see the pics, here they are: Pics posted by Alison O. on 7/14:

"Photos taken last Friday at our old office by our IT specialist, who was dropping by to pick up some stuff there. He got very close to this fledgling!"


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Beautiful pictures--thanks for posting them, SGB! :clap:

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thank you for posting those for me SGB! I got busy at work and didn't get around to posting them here myself.


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skygirlblue wrote:
For those of you not on Facebook or who can't see the pics, here they are: Pics posted by Alison O. on 7/14:

"Photos taken last Friday at our old office by our IT specialist, who was dropping by to pick up some stuff there. He got very close to this fledgling!"


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Thanks for sharing ! I think it's Skye. Anyone else think that?


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 Post subject: Re: SALT LAKE CITY ~ 2014
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Thank you, ajoslc and skygirlblue, for those wonderful photos! It's been a few days since we've had photos.

Okay, this might sound more than a little crazy and could forever ruin my, ahem, credibility (not that I've been around long enough to attain any yet), but last night when I was driving home from the swimming pool just after 9pm, and there was still a bit of light in the sky, traveling west down 900 South from 1300 East, a somewhat steep hill that levels off for a moment at 1200 East, in the sky before me was a large-winged bird - I mean it really was big - and it landed on the south side of the street on a tall wooden telephone or electric post - I even stopped my car in this 25 mph zone to look up at it, but could only do so momentarily since there was a car heading down the hill behind me about a block away. I honestly thought that I was recognizing an adult peregrine, because from my viewpoint looking up into its face from below, I was detecting the contrast of the malar coloring on the cheeks.

In hindsight, don't know why I didn't think to pull over. Keep in mind, I'm stopping illegally in the middle of the road and on a steep hill (which is part of what gave me a good vantage point as the bird was flying "up" the hill in a sense as I was moving down) and a car is coming behind me (thankfully at a low speed which enabled me to pause at all). The story sounds crazy even to me, but I do know it was a large bird. Beautiful, graceful wingspan and flight. I think this could have been one of our raptors, or maybe a raptor from another part of the city.

This location is about 2 miles east, and a few blocks south, of Temple Square. I wonder if anyone else has seen our bird friends at all in this area. I don't have a smart phone, but I need to remember to put a camera in the car now. I haven't seen the birds downtown for the last two days on my lunch breaks. Maybe today.


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Lizzie, I think that is Skye too. And I think maybe it was Skye I saw flying over the street on Monday afternoon.


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 Post subject: Re: SALT LAKE CITY ~ 2014
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WOW!!! That must have been a sight to see!!!

Keep in mind that a falcon is about the size of a crow, so when you say large bird, was it crow size or larger...I sure hope your answer is "crow size"....then you may have seen one of our falcon family!!!
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 Post subject: Re: SALT LAKE CITY ~ 2014
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You know I started to write that I hoped I wasn't writing to you guys about a sea gull, but it just was not a sea gull's style of flight, plus their beaks are so prominent. Oh and it wasn't the two-tone colors of a sea gull. I read that a peregrine's wingspan was 3 feet to 4 feet and so that seemed about right here - but how can you really measure when it is in the sky? Maybe it was bigger. I don't think I can say for sure that it wasn't bigger than a crow. I was quite incredulous about what I was seeing . I am going to have to see if I can run into this bird again somehow. What if it's some crazy eagle in the neighborhood. Better keep a good eye on my cat!

I see the need to be able to produce evidence now. Again, I am Completely new to bird watching. Will see what develops. That would be awesome if I could see this bird again and maybe snap a picture of it to help identify. I do travel this same route pretty much twice daily. I wonder what kind of other big birds there are in this area. This is a short distance from the mouth of Emigration Canyon (among others really, Parleys, Millcreek, some ways further, the Cottonwood Canyons). Maybe a bird escaped from the zoo, lol, because I am probably just a mile west of the zoo.


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 Post subject: Re: SALT LAKE CITY ~ 2014
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Well, this is very exciting..you could have very well seen one of the "family"... :egg20:

I did find this..not sure if it will help or confuse...LOL


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SgB >>thank you for the Raptor view!!

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What ever it was, the best part is now you are more aware of what is overhead. Thanks for sharing your experience with us fledglingfan!

SGB, that poster is awesome. Saving it!

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SGB, Beth and Gigi
I see you have found a newbie in training in NEW Fledge watcher. :danceegg: :danceegg:

Just wait tell Fledge fan, gets a full season behind them :egg19:

Happy that you are here Fledging Fan.


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Hey, friends, thanks so much for you input and greets (and patience). So there I was tonight, going down the same hill at the same time with binoculars and camera in the passenger seat and, shocking!, I know, but No bird.

Last night after I had seen the impressive wingspan and looked so briefly up into the bird's face perched on the streetlight pole, thinking I had indeed identified Peregrine markings, and that was that, I guess I felt sure enough that I had seen what I had seen, that I didn't take extra measures to circle around and make sure. All of this happening while I'm operating heavy machinery mind you in the blind spot (since I was below the crest) of a car coming down the hill behind me, so the whole thing was a bit disorienting, and now today it just seems a little too fantastic to me to have been a part of such a synchronous event. We are talking 5, not even 10 seconds. So I can only doubt myself.

I mean sometime we see what we want to see. Twenty plus years ago, I sat on a humongous rock at the edge of the Pacific Ocean at the end of a trail called Damnation Creek Trail near Crescent City, California and excitedly watched my first (and only) whale frolicking in the wild, until 20 or so minutes later, my friend pointed out that I was watching waves crash against a rock out in the sea. LOL. (True story - and I was irritated that this person let me suffer under a delusion, and with such zeal, for that length of time.)

What I thought I remember that was so beautiful about the flight - but my mind could have added it - was the articulated feathers on the bottom of the wings, that, for example, in the picture above, does not belong to the peregrine. And I don't remember much of a tail, but that could have been hidden by the angle. But I did see an image of a peregrine fledgling in flight that showed articulated bottom feathers. But I thought this bird was more of the grey and white coloring. I thought it was an adult.

Anyhow, live and learn I guess. Sure wish I'd taken 5 more seconds to look at it. I've been trying to find reports of what birds of prey might be seen in this neighborhood, but did not yet come up with a good source for that information. There are tons of old tall trees (large branches from which nature often brings down into the yards). Oh yeah - one thing is I don't have a lot of experience with crows. I think I thought they were more the size of a magpie, but if they are closer to twice that size - this bird definitely qualifies.

Okay, after I've exhausted y'all with my narratives, I feel obligated to provide you with some kind of valuable photographic evidence of some kind down the road. So that will be my quest. No falcon sightings (on my part) downtown today. Hope you are well!


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Oh yeah and a landmark is this was kitty corner from the backside lot of East High School - a streetlight post on the southwest corner of the intersection of 1200 East and 900 South.


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I loved your "exhaustive narrative"...but REALLY loved your "whale" of a story!!! I can't tell you how many times I've done that..and STILL do that!!


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