Paraglider Joined In Ridge Lift By Falcon, Santa Barbara, California

[flyaboveall]

Actually, the bird was a Red-Tail Hawk. Beautiful video of Santa Barbara's Paragliding Training Hill at Elings Park South!

[Ldighera]

Actually, the bird had no red feathers on it at all.

Living on the coast, I have often seen these falcons soaring on the updrafts along the blufftops along More Mesa.

[Ldighera]

Here's a news article:

Santa Barbara Newsroom website, Search All Words: 'Falcon chicks'

April 28 2007

For the first time in nearly 70 years, a pair of peregrine falcon chicks has been seen hatching on Santa Barbara Island. ...

There are 30 pairs of peregrine falcons on the eight Channel Islands today, probably the offspring of the first birds that were released or of birds that hatched in the wild, out of a total 250 pairs of falcons statewide.