Last year the pair apparently nested on top of the concrete support that is right by the walking path on the river. Rob and I had seen both copulation and feeding behavior there earlier, though we were never present to see them feeding their young.
Linda Whyte On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Scott Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > For the last two days I have watched 2 Peregrine Falcons under the High > Bridge (Smith Ave.S) in St. Paul from the High Bridge Dog Park which is you > get to from where Randolph Ave. crosses Shepard Road. You need to stay on > Randolph as it goes down to the river and terminates at the dog park. > Yesterday the pair were being very vocal as they sat near each other on a > support beam under the bridge deck on the South side of the bridge. Today > the larger Falcon was sitting on top of the main concrete support (also > South side of bridge) that is next to the dog park parking lot. It > appears that the top of this support has a rather large flat ledge, which > may be a nesting site for the pair. The smaller Falcon flew from a > support near the sitting bird and cruised over downtown and came back to > perch somewhere in the middle of the bridge. > > Scott B. Meyer > Hennepin Co. > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
