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Come to my neck of the woods and see all the Perrigrin Falcons that nest on the Verrazano Narrows bridge. You can watch 'em dive for fish that get turned up in the wake of passing frieghters, attack seagulls and harass the squirrels in the nearby park.

Nature does some pretty neat stuuf, huh?

Perrigrine...excuse me...

Come to my neck of the woods and see all the Perrigrin Falcons that nest on the Verrazano Narrows bridge. You can watch 'em dive for fish that get turned up in the wake of passing frieghters, attack seagulls and harass the squirrels in the nearby park.

Down on the Texas coast (Port Aransas/Corpus Christi area) there is a large section of land set aside for wintering birds. Lots of ospreys and other raptors live there through the winter, and it's always impressive to take a walk/tour through there and see them in action. I believe it's called the Port Aransas Wildlife Refugee or Center. Very large, and you can take boat tours or kayak/canoe tours through there.

We've went a few times and just about everytime, somebody would ask how they can get this or that type of hawk or whatever to live around their home.

There is also a raptor rehabilitation center somewhere up around Dallas. I saw a quick blurb on tv about it. They rescue and return several hundred raptors every year (upwards of 300+), and they do use live prey to get them ready for release back into nature. That would be a fun job. I'm surprised PETA hasn't protested, lol.

We've got red-tailed hawks up here that hunt in the median of the interstate all the time. Apparently the passing of the cars startles the rodents, which then move and are spotted by the hawks, that come screaming down on them and pluck them out of the grass in the median.

I enjoy watching them so much that I've almost wrecked the car watching them hunt. It's kind of hard to keep it between the lines when a good sized bird comes screaming along past your car at about 100 miles per hour, head down.

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Sorry Wombat101, those birds are most likely Ospreys. They eat fish, Peregrines eat rodents and pigeons and such. I've never seen one trying for fish. I have, however seen Ospreys all along the Jersey coast catching Mossbunker and other fish. Ospreys would be the ones most likely to roost on a large bridge while a peregrine would prefer tall buildings that would appear to be a cliff.