19 June 2024
It’s been eleven days since my final regional peregrine replace. Listed below are only a few of the websites. Extra to come back within the days forward.
Cathedral of Studying, Univ of Pittsburgh:
The juvies have made lots of progress since 11 June when Liz Adams took this picture of one among shouting from the thirty second/thirty third flooring parapet. Such a lazy hen! On its stomach demanding room service! It will definitely flew away towards Carnegie Museum.
This week each juvies harassed a crow at Bayard and Bellefield and chased their dad and mom across the prime of the Cathedral of Studying. By the point I snapped this picture they had been out of the body.
They’ve discovered the way to hunt at this level but it surely’s so much tougher than wheedling meals from their dad and mom. On Monday they discovered that Ecco hides from them on the nest in order that they each invaded. Ecco shouted and left instantly. See the slideshow of their antics.
Juvenile Pitt peregrines invade the nest, 17 June 2024 (photographs from the Nationwide Aviary snapshot digicam at Univ of Pittsburgh)
Downtown Pittsburgh:
On Monday morning 10 June PGC’s Patti Barber emailed {that a} Downtown juvie had been rescued from the bottom and positioned up excessive once more. This Monday, 17 June, Matthew DiGiacomo heard a juvie peregrine calling overhead and posted this picture of it on Pittsburgh Falconuts Fb web page.
First, I heard the distinctive name. Didn’t take lengthy to identify it hovering above the Forbes Avenue Storage.
— Matthew Digiacomo posted to Pittsburgh Falconuts Fb web page, 17 June 2024
East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh: No photographs accessible however Adam Knoerzer wrote yesterday, 18 June:
In E Liberty now — the younger one was undoubtedly flapping wings yesterday and exercising, and I can’t see a factor within the nest immediately. The feminine is perched a lot decrease than normal immediately on the japanese face, and I ponder if maybe the younger one tried to fledge and is someplace on a low roof.
The feminine is in a decidedly uncommon spot for her — and she or he has some prey in her clutches however isn’t consuming it. I did briefly hear vocalizing, but it surely wasn’t very lengthy or intense.
I assume it’s doable that the chick is mendacity flat because of the warmth or one thing, however yesterday it was fairly straightforward to see it anyplace on account of its dimension.
— electronic mail from Adam Knoerzer, 18 June 2024, 6pm
West Finish Bridge, Ohio River: On 13 June Jeff Cieslak photographed a solo peregrine on the West Finish Bridge. It’s banded Black/Inexperienced and seems to be “xC/20”. (The “x” means I can’t learn that letter. Jeff digitally flipped the band rightside up.) Did I learn the band accurately? Do any of you already know this hen?
Rt 40 Bridge, West Brownsville, Monongahela River:
On 1 June 5 birders visited the Rt 40 Bridge to look at the peregrine household of 4. When Fred Kachmarik visited on the ninth and fifteenth of June the 2 kids had been doing effectively.
There’s a 60% mortality charge amongst peregrines of their first yr of life so the lack of a chick is, sadly, an anticipated consequence.
