I don't look like Barry Bonds yet, my head hasn't grown two sizes and no new muscles, but my very own Performance Enhancing Drug, the steroid Prednisone, has definitely kicked in after two days. I woke up at 2 AM this morning wide awake and raring to go. After browsing the web, eating some pineapple slices and coconut ice cream (the appetite is going strong), I read for an hour or so and then managed to get back to sleep for an hour. Had a big breakfast at 5 AM and just got back from a brisk three mile walk. Experience tells me this won't last much past the end of the Prednisone on Tuesday, but it's kind of fun for now.
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| Falcon nesting under the bridge |
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| Falcon in flight |
We got lucky yesterday and spotted the peregrine falcons at their nesting site under the Sagamore Bridge. Even though they generally pass through the Cape about this time of year they almost never nest here. This is according to Chief Bird Watcher Dr. Pete, who got some great shots of the birds nesting and in flight. They are amazing flyers, not only the fastest birds but the fastest creatures on earth. They have been clocked flying at 200 mph, and the military has studied them with the goal of copying some of the bird's adaptations for extreme speed to its airplanes. We were lucky to see them fly as they went foraging. They looked like they had been fired from a slingshot, then were able to turn on a dime and get back to speed almost instantly. It was an awesome sight. Pete got these pictures with his Nikon 3000 using a 300 mm zoom lens. Good shooting!
It's another beautiful day on the Cape, warm, sunny and very little wind. Hopefully the weather will stay this way as we're planning to take a trip to the outer Cape tomorrow, along scenic route 6A to P-Town and the ocean.
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