Peregrine back this afternoon - napping in the same spot as last night. It is an unbanded bird. Bigger than I recall that Smiley was last year. Has a distinctive grey patch of feathers on her left breast. I will try to post a link to a photo album. I am always terrible at this but I will give it a go.
The link to your photo gallery works very well F2F - and looking at that bird's feet, it is a female. There are a whole whack of tundrius birds on migration right now so the bird might hang out or might be gone one morning. To my eye, that is a mature female, no reason she shouldn't be on a nest somewhere so she may not stay long.
Very nice photo - very glad you posted it!
For those who know who Island Girl is, she is on the move - reached Panama yesterday afternoon. She was pretty much in the same location this time last year. Based on previous year's she'll be on Baffin Island when the Radisson & McKenzie Seeds chick hatch. Three out of the last five years she has reached Baffin on June 4, last year it was June 3rd and in 2010 she got there early on June 1st. Looking at Hawk Count, 25 peregrines were recorded in Michigan alone in the last 7 days - 9 were reported at one location yesterday, we haven't seen that anywhere all season.
