26 June 2024
Peregrine season is wrapping up with affirmation of breeding in a single location and a host of “pair handiest” sightings within the Ohio River valley.
East Liberty Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh:
Adam Knoerzer showed one chick on the nest in early June however hadn’t noticed any signal of it for the reason that seventeenth. Then on Monday night 24 June, Adam was once close to East Liberty Presbyterian Church and showed “Juvie Alive and Neatly.”
After listening to a large number of noise, I realized the juvie perched on a low tower at the Penn Ave facet and the male losing some meals. We later noticed [the juvie] fly again as much as the nest.
— electronic mail from Adam Knoerzer, 24 June 2024
Adam’s picture at best displays the place the younger peregrine was once perched. Congratulations to the East Liberty peregrines and nest track Adam Knoerzer!
Brunot Island RR Bridge / Eckert / McKees Rocks, Ohio River:
The Eckert Boulevard peregrines went lacking this spring however there are lots of nest web page possible choices inside a mile of that web page. Jeff Cieslak attempted to seek out them and not using a good fortune however on 13 June Andy Moore (creator of Pawpaw: In Seek of The us’s Forgotten Fruit and the approaching guide Beasts within the East) photographed a couple of peregrines on the Brunot Island Railroad Bridge.
Jeff Cieslak began checking Brunot Island and has noticed the pair as not too long ago as Sunday 23 June. Jeff remarked “I’m lovely certain the feminine from Eckert is there, with a tender male.” No proof of younger.
Spruce Run Bridge, Ohio River: This pair is provide each and every time Jeff Cieslak stops through, maximum not too long ago 23 June. This pair is an grownup feminine with a 1-year-old male. No younger at this web page.
Monaca-East Rochester Bridge, Ohio River:
On 16 June Tim Johnson noticed a couple of peregrines close to the Monaca East Rochester Bridge and on 24 June Jeff Cieslak photographed them. There’s no proof of younger this 12 months.
West Finish Bridge, Ohio River: Understand that banded peregrine Jeff Cieslak photographed right here on 13 June? Its bands were traced to Baltimore, Maryland, but it surely hasn’t been noticed since. No peregrines on the West Finish Bridge.
PEREGRINE SUMMARY FOR SOUTHWEST PA: That is most certainly the overall replace for 2024. Many of those websites didn’t have a hit nests.