[Maine-birds] Re: Dark phase gyrfalcon - Kennebunk

Hi Stephen, there are a few falconers in the area, and at least one uses peregrines to hunt the marshes between Wells and Portland. They also use Red-tails, Coopers, Goshawks, and Sharpies, but to my knowledge nobody in the area is working with a Gyrfalcon. The bird I saw had no jesses or bands. Also, no falconer :). Cheers,

Shiloh

On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:10:31 AM UTC-5, Stephen Ingraham wrote:

I saw what certainly looked like this same bird, and the bird in the NH photos, in the trees along the road into Parson's Beach yesterday. However, there were two men, well out in the marsh, and one was definitely slinging a lure. I assumed at the time that this was a falconer's bird. ???

On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 7:40:13 AM UTC-5, Shiloh wrote:

Dark phased gyrfalcon eating a ring billed gull in the middle of the field on Park Street in Kennebunk. Pictures to follow. 7:39 still present. Fended off a red tailed hawk.

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