Hiked up Jocelynn yesterday and as I came out of the woods to the first rock outcrop I noticed a Peregrine falcon circling above. It rose in the thermals for a few hundred feet above me. It broke out of the circles it was making and flapped a few times to gain speed and then dove down like a bullet to just near me. I heard its wings "woosh" as it stopped abruptly, turned, and caught a small bird that was in mid flight just above the treetops. The falcon circled looking for a place to land, and decided on a branch of a tree just up the ridge from me.
I watched it for about 5 minutes as it devoured a small grey bird, not sure what it was .
it then flew to another branch
