14 April 2024
The Sewickley Bridge has hosted unmarried peregrines since 2017 however a couple used to be no longer common there till early 2021. Someday observers spotted that probably the most pair is banded however who may just learn the bands?
And the place used to be this pair nesting at the bridge?
This spring Jeff Cieslak responded each questions. He photographed a nest alternate wherein the male took over incubation and the feminine left the nest.
And he were given a photograph of the male’s bands.
[The male] used to be at the close to tower so I handiest needed to stroll half-way around the bridge (so the solar used to be in the back of me). Once I ended, he began to scratch his face, and his bands circled sufficient and had been targeted sufficient that I feel I will learn them. They’re upside-down, so it’s “black 0 5 (or 6) over inexperienced S (or 5) 6.”
The bands are Black/Inexperienced 05/S and he used to nest on the Neville Island I-79 Bridge (a.ok.a. the Glenwood Bridge) till it used to be boarded up for building in 2020 for greater than 3 years. At Neville Island I-79 he used to be nicknamed Beau by means of web page track Anne Marie Bosnyak.
Beau didn’t transfer some distance to discover a new nest web page and he didn’t transfer some distance from his birthplace. He hatched on the Cathedral of Leaning in 2010 to oldsters Dorothy and E2. I do know evidently that he’s unquestionably 05/S as a result of his brother 06/S, nicknamed Inexperienced Boy, died within the Webster Corridor chimney in June 2010.
Beau is now 14 yrs previous however he has longevity in his genes. His mom Dorothy lived to be 16 and his grandad Louie from Downtown lived to be 17 and bred effectively at third Ave in his seventeenth yr. (Beau’s father, E2, used to be hit by means of a automobile in 2016 so we will be able to’t know the way lengthy he would have naturally lived.)
Learn in regards to the first time we recognized Beau, Black/Inexperienced 05/S, on this antique article.
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