Nature Done Wright

My recent column in The Record and other USA Today newspapers in New Jersey profiled a Peregrine Falcon dubbed "the Beast" — she rules the roost at the State Line Hawk Watch in Alpine.

Apparently another "Beast" hung out on the Palisades 80 years ago — before it was drafted into the Army and shipped to Fort Monmouth, N.J.  Its name: Thunderbolt.

Here's how The New York Times reported it back on August 8, 1941.

I wasn't able to find anything more recent.