Hi all,
 
This is a bit off topic and out of area, but I thought it unusual enough to post, as it has probably happened to others, though never before to me.

We spent last week on a cruise of the Caribbean with stops in San Juan PR, St. Thomas USVI, and S. Maarten DWI/FWI. I birded whenever I could both from the ship and ashore, and took my scope along for scanning from the deck of our cabin. The day we were in St. Thomas, as we were leaving port late in the afternoon, I was standing on our deck with only my bins and camera (our good Canon with Tamron lens). Anyway, I saw a bird standing on the rocky outcrop at the mouth of the small harbor, really just a large brownish looking "lump" so I took two long-range photos of it, then completely forgot about it till just a while ago, when I was looking through all our photos. At the time I remember thinking it might be a cormorant, but when I zoomed in the photo, it's unmistakably a perched Peregrine Falcon!

 So this bird was a week late in identifying but the photo doesn't lie. Pretty neat, I think. Glad I had the camera on deck! My bird guide to the West Indies says they are uncommon to rare throughout the islands through April.

Just to make it MD related, I just saw the White-crowned Sparrow again on the ground below the feeders, around 6:30 PM.


Rick Sussman
Woodbine,MD

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