SFist Photo: A Bird of Prey Guarding our City Hall

This raptor, spotted right next to the gold and black dome, is the kind of bird needed around San Francisco's Civic Center.

Guarding against what, you say? Pigeons! The problem with pigeon droppings on the glass roofs of the two City Hall light courts led to them being covered over with concrete in the 1950's. Or so the story goes. Will the two nests built for falcons on top of the building in the 1990's ever have occupants? San Jose's City Hall has raptors, why not ours?