{"id":9359,"date":"2011-06-03T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2011-06-03T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:08:07","slug":"caspian-tern-chasing-peregrine-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=9359","title":{"rendered":"Anthropomorphizing a Caspian-Peregrine Tussle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been grabbing Seattle’s ever-so-fleeting sun breaks to photograph a group of Caspian Terns who fish every evening on Puget Sound. I’ll post those shots soon. As I was packing up my tripod tonight, I saw the telltale movement and wing shape of a Peregrine overhead. She was riding the thermals up and out of my lens range, but her presence created chaos in Ternville. I shot a few frames of the altercation. These images are grainy and soft, but you get the idea. <\/p>\n

At one point, the Peregrine went into a stoop (which can reach 200 mph) to ditch the two terns on her tail. When she returned, the terns were on her again. After a few mid-air contortions, twisting her body to aim her talons at the terns, the Peregrine finally bolted southwest to West Seattle . . . and the terns went back to fishing.<\/p>\n

This Peregrine might be the same one I saw hunting pigeons at a local Fred Meyer parking lot. There’s a Peregrine nest in between the store and where I was shooting tern photos, so I’m sure the Peregrine couple covers some distance in either direction. The Fred Meyer Peregrine, incidentally, did not catch a pigeon in that parking lot. (Score one for those amazing flyers, the pigeons.) But it was a strange, urban\/nature experience to walk out of the shop and see a Peregrine swooping low over cars. Of course, it was the one day I decided I didn’t feel like carrying my telephoto lens in my bag. The Peregrine was practically posing for me.<\/i><\/p>\n

For some truly spectacular Peregrine Falcon shots, as well as other raptor and bird images, check out Glenn Nevill’s photography page<\/a>. He chronicles the nesting Peregrines on San Francisco’s PG&E building and has a gorgeous portfolio of their lives, successes and hardships.<\/p>\n

\"Peregrine<\/a>

The Peregrine Arrives<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Specter - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Caspian<\/a>

Emergency Meeting in Ternville<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Caspian<\/a>

Get the %#&@ Out!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Peregrine<\/a>

She gone?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Caspian<\/a>

Damn.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Cheap Surprise Movie Ending . . . <\/p><\/div>\n

Related Quark Posts:<\/b> Through the Lens of Glenn Nevill<\/a> | There is a Season . . . Terns<\/a> | More Alameda Terns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been grabbing Seattle’s ever-so-fleeting sun breaks to photograph a group of Caspian Terns who fish every evening on Puget Sound. I’ll post those shots soon. As I was packing up my tripod tonight, I saw the telltale movement and wing shape of a Peregrine overhead. She was riding the thermals up and out of my lens range, but her presence created chaos in Ternville. I shot a few frames of the altercation. These images […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}