A Question about Peregrine Falcons

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My son, who birds in Massachusetts, wrote:

"Next to Washacum Ponds, but on the way on Fairbanks St (W.Boylston?) a
raptor flew across and led us down the road a quarter mile until it perched
on a high-tension line. We think it was a Peregrine Falcon, but aren't
quite sure. It had the dark pattern on the head and face and was about the
right size, but its back was much closer to brown than any of the three
books we have show. One of the books indicate that immatures are browner
like this, but would we have seen an imm. this time of year? Nothing else
in the book came close to the pattern we saw, with the possible exception
of a kestrel, but this was too large and didn't have the brighter colors of
a kestrel. Any comments or ideas?"

Would anyone like to answer his question?  Many of you are more knowlegeable
than I. Thanks.

Phyllis Grimm

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