Peregrine Falcon Update-March 18th

This little guy here is very lucky to be alive. I was not in the office on Friday or this past Monday and went I went in on Tuesday, the security guard to my building told me the male Peregrine Falcon flew into our building. Our building is all mirrors so I am assuming he thought it was another male and he was going after him to defend his territory. I was very upset over this but the security guard assured me he seemed all right afterwards. I was not convinced of this after hearing of two red tailed hawks who had died over the past few years after striking these windows so went searching for him yesterday with no success. I found him today on his favorite perching ledge and was relieved. I am hoping he has learned his lesson and won't try it again, but want to be prepared if he is not. I am hoping someone out there familiar with the falcons is reading this and can perhaps give me some information on who was tracking them in the past to see if they had any rehabilitors out there familiar with these Peregrines. I am going to give the Wildlife number out to security and maintenance to our building just in case this happens again and he looks injured and let them know they should contact me right away if it is during business hours so I can call them and Tufts. It would break my heart if this one got injured to the window strikes

Anyway, here is the clearest picture I could get of either of them today. The ledge he is on is one block away from me and up about 4 floors higher than me so good pictures are not possible. As you can see he looks quite comfy on the ledge.

Here is the female giving him the eyeball. She is not happy he spends all of his time there and lets him know by calling out to him. He seems to ignore her protests and continues to hang out of the ledge and groom his feathers.

Finally she has had enough and she decided to fly over there to give him a piece of her mind.

And THIS is what she did! LOL!!! The picture is really bad because I was overly excited while taking this and couldn't focus but if you squint your eyes you can see him cowering over her fury! I so wish the picture would have come out better because I love it so much. You would think Romeo would have gotten the hint that she wanted some quality time over at their nest, but he wanted no part of it and continued to perch on the ledge.

She flew back and went deeper into the nesting box. I am guessing she may have already laid her eggs and that is why she is there all the time.

To be continued as always.