Shoreline animal control website
Thursday, July 15, 2010
The City of Shoreline has a webpage with current information about Animal Control for City residents. See our previous story about Regional Animal Services.
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I was at Fred Meyer on Aurora and 185 around 9:00 this morning. I saw a merlin eating a pigeon on the sidewalk on the grocery side. I thought it was pretty cool. A woman pointed out that it had bands on it's feet. My two year old and I passed it on the sidewalk, with the bird in the middle, and the bird didn't care. I am not about to try to pick up that beak. However, it might be someone's pet loose. That seemed too weird. My pet parrot wouldn't have been that casual about a stranger so tall above it walking past. If anyone is missing at tame merlin, try near Fred Meyers.
It was indeed a cool thing to witness, at such close range, the behaviors of this raptor and its prey.
The facts that the bird was on the sidewalk and allowing humans to be so close, and was sporting bands on its legs, tells me it was likely to be a type of raptor other than a Merlin. It would be interesting to know the following: the bird's size; colors of the leg bands and which leg had which color (including metal); colors of the bird in general; whether or not there were visible tail bands, and if there were, the approximate width of the bands; leg color; eye color; anything else noted. There are folks in the area who are banding and interested in tracking Cooper's Hawks, Sharp-shinned Hawks, Peregrine Falcons, Red-tailed Hawks, as well as Merlins.
I would be interested in conversing privately with the person who observed the raptor, either in email or by phone. I give the editor of this newsletter permission to pass along my email contact info, if the observer indicates to her that she would be interested in relating more details so as to get a more certain identification of this Fred-Meyer bird of prey.
Thanks for any more information that either the observer or anyone else who might have seen it that day, wants to share, with either me or in another Shoreline Area News post.
Barb Deihl, Neighborhood Merlin Liaison
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