1 September 2023
The Nationwide Aviary’s streaming digicam is off for the season so the Pitt peregrines are nearly out of sight, however they don’t seem to be off my thoughts. On a daily basis I test the Cathedral of Finding out’s ledges to look the place they’re perched and I have a look at the snapshot digicam in case they’ve been to the nest.
Task on the nest picked up this week as a result of fall is coming and migration is underway. The period of day is very similar to spring they usually’re taking an pastime in songbird migration as prey flies overhead at evening.
Ecco and Carla bowed on the nest thrice the day gone by, together with a longer bowing consultation, to enhance their pair bond and their declare at the nest.
All of Pitt’s resident peregrines(*) keep house for the wintry weather and I be expecting Ecco and Carla to do the similar. They don’t wish to migrate as a result of there’s a variety of meals within the wintry weather (pigeons and starlings) and their “cliff” is simply too precious to lose through vacating it for 6 months.
So I’m nonetheless observing. The Pitt peregrines could also be out of sight however they don’t seem to be out of my thoughts.
(*) There’s numerous historical past that permits me to mention that. Peregrines have lived on the Cathedral of Finding out for 22 years, spanning 8 grownup birds.
(footage from the Nationwide Aviary snapshot digicam at Univ of Pittsburgh)