I was in a meeting on the 31st floor a month or so ago, when I saw a bird swoop past the window. That could never be a pigeon up this high, I thought. Could it be a … ?
This week a colleague sent me photos. It turns out that a pair of peregrine falcons had nested several years ago on the 32nd floor outside our president’s office and, after a sojourn at the Custom House, decided to come back this year. The babies have just been tagged, and the tagger took pictures.
I have been reading a novel about Bedouins translated from Arabic. It has numerous passages on Bedouins’ fondness for falcons as hunting birds, so this feels like a coincidence. But the main thing is, they are really cool birds.
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They are beautiful birds! And yes, the Middle East is one place where people still go hunting with falcons.
My president laughed ruefully when I mentioned the falcons to him. He says it can be pretty unnerving to hold a meeting when outside his window the falcons are bringing home live small birds and ripping them up in front of everyone!