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Field Notes
Doug Bell
U.C. Berkeley
February 1, 1984 - cont.
Oakland AT&T building (Franklin + 15th) for the
1987 season?
We drove back to SF to meet the bridge observer
at the fire station below the bridge. Talked with
him from 15:30 -> on. At 17:00 a Peregrine
appeared over the closet tower. Up high, soaring
with gulls. It drifted over the Ferry Building,
then put in a powered dive at a small bird
about 100 feet up over the bay. Missed it, then
drifted back over the bridge (100 above the
tower!), shallow dive at a gull which had dived
on it, then back over downtown Ferry Building,
then back to land at the very top of the closet
tower. Did not see it fly off again. I left
after sunset. Very cold (Alaska air coming in).
What a # satisfying day!