22 June 2023
This morning simply after break of day I noticed a peregrine fly via my window wearing prey to the Cathedral of Studying. I’m positive it used to be Ecco bringing breakfast to Carla. The pair is “in song” as though it used to be nesting season. Ecco provides Carla’s meals and so they bow on the nest a number of occasions an afternoon, however I do know there will likely be no eggs on the Cathedral of Studying this 12 months. It’s too overdue to lift a peregrine circle of relatives.
As of late on Throwback Thursday I regarded again seven years to seek out that the weblog used to be All Peregrines All The Time in 2016. On this shuttle down reminiscence lane, it’s possible you’ll take note a couple of of those incidents from that June.
On the Cathedral of Studying in 2016, the peregrine pair used to be Hope and Terzo with only one feminine nestling who fledged on 13 June. Click on right here to examine her adventures.
One week later a banded feminine peregrine confirmed up on digital camera on the Cathedral of Studying nest. It used to be Magnum from the Neville Island I-79 Bridge territory the place she had already fledged two younger. (Click on right here or at the video screenshot for the tale.)
A couple of days later Magnum left Oakland, Hope and Terzo paired once more, and their fledgling grew up and left the town.
This 12 months, in contrast, could be very quiet. Palms crossed for a excellent season subsequent 12 months.
(footage and movies from the Nationwide Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh)