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Title: FOS Peregrine - Houston TX
Post by: DebInTexas on 16-Sep-10, 11:21:28 AM
Watching our FOS wintering Peregrine this morning!  Mid-September is right on schedule.


Title: Re: FOS Peregrine - Houston TX
Post by: Carol P. on 16-Sep-10, 12:19:00 PM
Watching our FOS wintering Peregrine this morning!  Mid-September is right on schedule.

That's great Deb.  Any bands on this Peregrine?


Title: Re: FOS Peregrine - Houston TX
Post by: jeanne on 16-Sep-10, 01:42:11 PM
FOS is???


Title: Re: FOS Peregrine - Houston TX
Post by: NoraH on 16-Sep-10, 04:38:06 PM
FOS is???
:stupid: First of season?  That was after a lot of googling because I couldn't think of it either  :hyper:


Title: Re: FOS Peregrine - Houston TX
Post by: anneintoronto on 16-Sep-10, 06:16:35 PM
Want to know about something and can't find it anywhere in the WWW...  Just ask NoraH!  She has amazing skills at finding just what you want to know, whether your problem is very big or very small!!  The last thing she found for me was a mass of information on how to feed a little pigeon squab -- diagrams, videos and all!  Yep, she's a force unto herself!  :clap:

Anne in Toronto


Title: Re: FOS Peregrine - Houston TX
Post by: Patti from Kentucky on 16-Sep-10, 10:07:20 PM
FOS is???

Yes, First of Season...I'm on a Kentucky birding listserve, and it's a commonly used and very handy expression for those times of year when our wintering, migrating, or summering birds arrive.  We've been having big quantities of migrants pass through now, but as winter approaches I'll start seeing posts like "FOS Junco", "FOS White-throated Sparrow", or "FOS YB Sapsucker", which are birds we only get to see in winter.


Title: Re: FOS Peregrine - Houston TX
Post by: DebInTexas on 16-Sep-10, 10:29:59 PM
Apologies for the First of Season acronym!  Habits are formed from birding listserv here in Houston:))

Today the bird was too high up to see the legs with my work binocs.  But, none of the birds we've had for the past 8 or so years have been banded, indicating all wild-born!!

Today's appeared to be the female, based on size.  I'll just have to see if the male shows up again.  I think it's the same pair for the last few years, cause they keep coming back to the exact same building.

Deb