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Transcribed from a series of text messages:<\/p>\n

\u2766 \u2766 \u2766<\/p>\n

Kathleen packed tea and a banana in my briefcase this morning. I’m at work, eating the banana, drinking tea, waiting for a security scan of a website to finish, wondering how I will coordinate fixing what I find, when there is a thump at the window.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>
View looking down (approximated).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have two windows, and I’m 190 feet above the street. Thumps are odd, so I turn around and —<\/p>\n

There is a large, ruffled, and agitated turkey vulture struggling to perch on the ledge outside the window. It is a granite ledge, six inches wide. It isn’t designed for perching, except maybe the occasional pigeon or sparrow, and a turkey vulture doesn’t really fit.<\/p>\n

\"Turkey<\/a>
Turkey vulture, one of the more attractive of nature’s beasts. Photo from Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I start to get up from my desk for a closer look and — the turkey vulture falls backward off the ledge. Not without a lot of fuss and feathers, but still a fall.<\/p>\n

Then I notice a peregrine falcon, lazily spiraling through the neighborhood, make a very sharp turn and — dive.<\/p>\n

\"Peregrine<\/a>
Peregrine falcon, a graceful flyer, an urban raptor, and way smaller than a turkey vulture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because of the angle, I can’t see what happened next, but it had to have been spectacular. While a peregrine is far too small to attack a turkey vulture in a fair fight, a turkey vulture is no match in aerial combat, especially when it is desperately and awkwardly preoccupied with avoiding a fall.<\/p>\n

My banana, having suffered from \u00a0too much excitement, broke in half and fell to the floor.<\/p>\n

Yes, this excessively long message is to tell you my banana committed seppuku<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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