Field Notes Doug Bell April 2, 1989 began hiking back down the canyon, thinking it was without Prairies. As we entered the meadow, a large flat area in the canyon about in the middle of the rocky area, I heard falcon screaming. We looked up, and I saw two Prairie Falcons flying about. One then flew in to the pothole, and disappeared into it. We excitedly hiked up Pine Ridge, and, as we climbed higher, we could view the falcon incubating. She peered out of the hole. In the course of our hike to the top of the ridge we often stopped to view her. We could see directly into the hole, about 1/4 mile away. The falcon occasionally turned the eggs & resettled. At one point a Siskin hopped up on the table rock, but that did not seem to disturb the falcon. She could not see that rock because it was behind hers. We had just seen the Tiedel fly past and scream, but he did not return to harass the hikers. At this time there were about 10 different people up on the rocks, including 3 loud & drunken teenage boys. Most the people were scrambling about the large rocks to the north west of the Prairie Falcon rock. A couple times we saw the Tiedel fly right past people without being bothered. At one time the falcon came off the ridge to greet the Tiedel, and it looked like a very small food item was exchanged. The