(Falcon photos owned by SCPBRG. I love the kids-home-from-college-together shot.)
Karin’s yarn: I love how the darker/lighter patterns match the fledgling’s. In adulthood, the stripes effect on the juveniles will change from going up and down to side to side with the chest going white.
You know you’ve really been caught up in this whole peregrine thing when you pull up behind a car at a red light and read the nameplate on its back as saying it’s a Toyota Tiercel. Well, and it was little, too, and the males are smaller!