There was a perched female American Kestrel on a football goalpost in 
Kenilworth Park, DC, this morning (11/11) at around 10 a.m. As I 
watched the Kestrel, an immature Peregrine Falcon whistled over my 
head and quartered the park very close to the ground for a few 
minutes without catching anything.  It then perched high in a bare 
tree in the company of many crows.  I was surprised -- but probably 
shouldn't have been --to note that the Peregrine was a bit smaller 
than the crows, most of which were American.  I was able to take some 
halfway decent photos from right under the tree before the bird (a 
young male, I think) eventually flew off and disappeared.

An American Pipit flew over in the same area, but I didn't see any on 
the ground.

Mike Bowen
Montgomery Bird Club
Bethesda, MD

D.H. Michael Bowen
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