Peregrine Falcon - Delta, BC

This beautiful creature was all fluffed up this morning waiting for the sunrise to warm up from below freezing temperatures from last night. The Peregrines here usually chase the shorebirds on the foreshore around Mud Bay looking for a meal. It just so happened that we were looking for the same birds, only we were just interested in the numbers of birds for the 118th Christmas Bird Count. This was our group's only Peregrine that morning.