MISC USA PEREGRINE FALCONS~2015

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

5/10

Kalamazoo~I was afraid they had lost a baby. For the longest time, only 3 were up for the feed...then toward the end, #4 popped up..

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

Charlotte~turns out there are 4 eggs..and I don't know what they did to the cam, but it is so much clearer...

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

Utica~so happy to see #2..

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

Evanston...took forever for #4 to pop up...

kittenface · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 9:19 pm

Davenport update about the people in the window.

MidAmerican Energy Company

Thank you for the inquiry about the falcons nesting on our building. The person whose reflection you saw was likely our senior facilities technician, who has been monitoring the falcons and their nesting box for over a decade. That day, he was checking for hatchlings. He is very careful to be as unobtrusive as possible while monitoring the wellbeing of the falcons and their eggs. The falcons are, by nature, very protective of their nest, but they seem to have grown accustomed to the occasional monitoring, and they continue to return to the nesting box on our building year after year. We are proud that our nesting box – which was installed on our building by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in 2003 – has helped restore the peregrine falcon population in our area. Thank you for caring about these beautiful birds as much as we do. We hope you’ll keep watching as the chicks hatch and make their way in the world.

gigi · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 10:25 pm

thank you for sharing their answer.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

thanks KF!!! Looks like an only child again this year!!

Sally · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 11:48 am

I just saw a third chick at the Utica nest.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

thanks Sally!!! YAY for Utica!!!

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

Kalamazoo

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

Jackson County

kittenface · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2015 12:22 pm

Savannah looks like a bust this year, I sure wish I knew what was happening. I just wonder if that raccoon was ever dealt with, I mean a predator guard of some sort. I watched last night & no one showed up. So sad. :girlsad3:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

I agree...I watched a bunch yesterday and saw nothing...my first thought is that something happened to the resident male. such a bummer they turned the cam off...

kittenface · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2015 1:09 pm

UIC I watched for about 3 minutes, and stopped watching when I saw little one not getting anything. Maybe it did when I tuned out. I hope.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

evanston

kittenface · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 10:30 pm

Just read that PD @ Davenport has been replace Scorpio has a new mate. They just found out last week.

There's a new falcon in town.

PD, the male peregrine falcon that has nested with female Scorpio in downtown Davenport since 2003, has been replaced.

This realization dawned last week when Dave Sebben took new photos of the birds that nest off the 10th floor of the MidAmerican Energy Co. building.

Sebben is a MidAmerican employee who has watched over the birds for 12 years, ever since the Department of Natural Resources began its reintroduction project of the once-nearly extinct species.

Examining his photos when he got home, Sebben thought something appeared a bit different about the male that he assumed was PD.
I sat there for about five minutes," Sebben said. PD's identifying band was PD — that is how he got his name.

Sebben consulted an online data base for peregrine falcons, and found that E60 hatched in 2007 from a nest outside the US Bank building in Cedar Rapids

More here:

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Banding at Evanston is set for Wednesday, June 3, 10:30 AM :clap:

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

Utica

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

Sally, thanks so much for those great pics of Great Spirit Bluff...they actually have their own "spot"...

viewtopic.php?f=494&p=353068#p353068

Index page----> Minnesota--->XCEL Energy & Great Spirit Bluff

I'll move your post there..

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm **Posts:** 64394

RE: Southloop

They are hoping to have the cam back on line Monday!!

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