All Faith's Cemetery (12/2)

I took a short walk at the cemetery on Saturday afternoon. It was pretty cold and almost all the birds were gone. There was a large flock of Canada Geese and a few Mallards but that was about it. Just as I was going to give up and head home, I saw a falcon land at the top of a large pine. The light was against me making identification really difficult. I have not been blessed with the ability to judge scale very well so it could have been a Merlin or an immature Peregrine. It was probably the Peregrine since a pair has been nesting in Worcester for many years now. But, I couldn't get over how the bird was buffeted by the wind. It seems to me like a Peregrine would have the mass to take the wind. But, its just a guess.