Throw Back Thursday:
Humans aren’t the only ones who visit Florida’s beaches in winter. Large flocks of gulls and shorebirds loaf on the sand and sometimes a peregrine falcon finds this irresistible.
In 2012 an unbanded adult peregrine ate a gull within 20 feet of passersby at Daytona Beach Shores. Click here to read the story and see the slideshow On The Beach.
(photo by Michael Brothers, 2012)
I happened to click on both the cams yesterday very briefly. There was a visitor to the Gulf Tower nest box. Any idea who it was or if they have been visiting regularly?
LeahL, both peregrines have been visiting the Gulf nest. We’re hoping they stay!
Thanks Kate. I glanced back through your blog archives and didn’t see any mention of the Gulf Tower. I must have just missed it. I hope they don’t get scared away this year too!
This violates the principle that PEFAs don’t go to the ground, but I guess at the beach, they don’t have a choice.
I have a picture of a peregrine falcon with a sea gull on a container ship in the Panama canal. Boy, was I surprised when I enlarged the picture and saw that the “bird of prey” was a falcon.