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[Dthomp2669@xxxxxxx]

T'was really thrill time at my house at 1:30 PM.  I had been out on the deck 
replenishing all the bird food before leaving for a reception for us hospital 
volunteers at the St. Thomas Emergency Room.  I went back inside to rinse off 
the spatula with which I had put peanut butter out for the "bosses 
mockingbird" and looked out the window above the sink just in time to see a 
first year picture perfect (a la Sibley) peregrine falcon land on my deck 
rail not ten feet in front of my face!  I saw his "sideburns" and breathed 
out loud, "Oh my God, it's a young peregrine!"  It stayed long enough for me 
to get a super look then flew about 75 feet away to my neighbor's back fence 
where he perched again.  It surveyed the territory for a moment, then took 
off like a shot in pure peregrine style.  I have had peregrines here on 
several occasions, but only one immature before.  They do check out all my 
mourning doves and rock doves of which there is usually an abundance.  I have 
no idea if this young bird is a local resident or if it was just passing 
through, but it was certainly fabulous to see it today.  I just hope it is in 
the neighborhood tomorrow so that Tarcila Fox and I can get it on our West 
Meade segment of the Nashville Christmas Count.  It headed toward Bell's Bend 
from here, so maybe it'll be over there for the team that does that area 
tomorrow.  Y'all watch for it.  What a fabulous bird--always such a thrill to 
see one--a real "class act."

Dee Thompson
Nashville. TN
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