FOS Peregrine - Houston TX

[DebInTexas]

Watching our FOS wintering Peregrine this morning!  Mid-September is right on schedule.

[Carol P.]

Watching our FOS wintering Peregrine this morning!  Mid-September is right on schedule.

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

[jeanne]

FOS is???

[NoraH]

FOS is???

First of season?  That was after a lot of googling because I couldn't think of it either 

[anneintoronto]

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! 

Anne in Toronto

[Patti from Kentucky]

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.

[DebInTexas]

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