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To: Ish who wrote (62890)	6/13/2002 10:20:50 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

releasing of Peregrine Falcons into the larger cities No Falcons have I seen of late in Houston, but this afternoon on a busy street I saw a '57 Chevy. It was a two-tone red-with-white-top two-door hardtop V-8 with fender skirts. It had a sign in the rear glass that said ... PLEASE GO AROUND ME I can't go over 30 mph (an old car) That last line on a 45-year-old car struck me as amusing. A young lady was driving it in 90-degree heat with the windows rolled down, in the literal sense of rolled down. Not many '57s with A/C and power windows, as I remember, but it had to be the only car in today's rush-hour traffic whose make and year was so readily identifiable.

To: Ish who wrote (62890)	6/17/2002 7:23:08 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Haven't heard of such a release program but have experienced what appeared to be a peregrine first hand. I'm in a high rise in the Deep South. Last year, I had what looked suspiciously like a peregrine sit on my window ledge twice, and once at another place in the office. Very cool. The first time he (or she) visited, I was concentrating hard on work, then got distracted by the hawk's high- pitched sound. Had no idea what it was but could tell it was coming from outside. Lifted the blind and, voila, a hawk, possibly a peregrine, was staring at me with its piercing yellowish eyes. A real treat for me since I used to catch hawks as a teenager. Released them all because they wouldn't eat and were likely to die.