Four of us watched the quite active Gyrfalcon this morning, attacking crows from below, perched on the lone tree at the end of Atlantic Av., and flying low over the water at high speed.
There are three roads that end at the center of this activity: Harbor Rd; ends at a public parking lot. Atlantic Avenue (via Mile Road) ; ends at a public parking lot, and has a lone tree, possibly favored by this bird as a perch. And the Drakes Island Road; ends at a public parking lot with a dune grass sand dune peninsula with trail to end. There's also a vantage point along the Drakes Island Road, looking south. All 4 of these would have provided good looks at the bird this morning, and the end of Drakes Island Rd also offers good sunlight at your back, looking into the salt marsh system.
It was last seen by us before noon, leaving its perch tree at the end of Atlantic Av., crossing over the NE-most cove of the salt marsh here, and probably over the trees and little neighborhood, headed Northeast, toward the Atlantic Ocean of the Rachel Carson Nat Wildlife Refuge.
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