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hatredisnotavalue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 05:44 PM
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Bangor pigeons under attack
A rare visitor has been sighted in the skies over downtown Bangor recently, and the stealthy specter has the city’s pigeon population justifiably on edge.

Several downtown residents and workers say they have spotted peregrine falcons hunting pigeons repeatedly in recent months in the area of Pickering Square.

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The peregrine is one of the fastest creatures on earth, hitting speeds of up to 200 mph during its characteristic dive bomb while hunting. The birds can achieve nearly 70 mph during direct flight while pursuing prey. HOLY CRAP!

LINK: http://bangornews.com/news/t/city.aspx?articleid=159455&zoneid=176

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asteroid2003QQ47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 08:10 PM
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1. Feel the beating of the wings.
"Tony Sohns, natural history educator with the Maine Discovery Museum in downtown Bangor, estimates he’s seen peregrines hunting in the area of Pickering Square at least 10 times since the summer.
Sohns has managed to incorporate such discoveries into his lessons at the Discovery Museum. Sohns has managed to incorporate such discoveries into his lessons at the Discovery Museum."

Sohns might consider delicately broaching the the subject of what happens to bloated populations, in this case pigeons, when addressing his young charges.

The human population of the planet has doubled in my relatively short lifetime, look up, the wings are beating.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 08:56 AM
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2. That's awesome.
:D
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 09:19 PM
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3. my Mom has that problem
she feeds the pigeons, and the falcons/hawks have found a good food source. She'll come home from work and find blood in the snow, and no tracks. This is in town Rockland. It's gotten worse since Lowes decided to build right on rt. 1 in Thomaston not far from the cement plant. A lot of road work up there has displaced a lot of animals and many times on my way home from work I see fox and bobcats. Lately there has been an owl sitting on the phone wires, in the exact same spot every time.
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luckyleftyme2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 11:33 PM
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4. IF memory serves me

I believe in the 80's portland had this same problem. Once the population of their prey thin out they spread out over the country side.
I remember one afternoon traveling along the river near costigan and seeing the ducks
setting on the edge of the ice near the channel when an eagle swooped down and grabbed one.bald eagles were rare in the 70's but they have made a great come back.
Boy how the time flies by!
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asteroid2003QQ47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:26 AM
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5. I used to brave the traffic...
for ice cream across from the theatre entrance, with the quality gone down
and the prices up, I now find Round Top much more satisfying.

It must have been a real treat to commute through there last year?

Feathered and furry animals do what they must to survive and the symbiosis is beautiful,
the antithesis of greed motivated naked apes.
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 09:36 AM
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6. Dormans is THE best!
unfortunately the construction has taken a bit if their drive making them closer to the road :(

There is now a 4-way intersection with a stop light by the Ford dealership.
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