Nature Done Wright

At least two people posted on e-Bird that they saw the State Line Gyrfalcon on Wednesday morning — just after 10 a.m. — so the saga continues.

The print edition of my Gyrfalcon story is in the Better Living section of The Record today. Miles Ma of NJ.com also posted an item on the world's largest falcon at State Line and quoted me.

Since my story about the Gyrfalcon has gotten a lot of attention, I thought I'd pass along another photo or two, and some more information for folks who are big-time Gyrfalcon fans.

I have received reports from folks in other parts of New Jersey who believe they got a fly-by look at possibly the same Gyrfalcon earlier last month, and Mike Girone, who first reported it at State Line, suspects it may have been hanging around longer there:

"I should note, too, that the week prior on Friday late afternoon January 13, Ray [Gilbert] and I observed a large falcon with a whitish chest on the exact same branch in the exact same tree that I saw the Gyr in on the 21st.  

"At the time we wrote it off as one of the local Peregrines and deleted the distant pics we took. After the events of Jan 21st, we're thinking the bird on the 13th could have been the Gyr."

The online version of my story is here.

The photo above is by Greg Gard. You can go to his website for more photos and more information. His blog post about the Gyrfalcon is here.

Miles Ma's NJ.com story is here.

Below is a crowd shot from Saturday by Karl Soehnlein. This bird attracts a crowd, and for excellent reason!