2002 - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

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[Hastings Cliff / Highway 61 Bridge, Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota. In
late March and the first week of April, an unbanded one-year-old female and male
Rocket b/g L/M, fledged in 2000 at NSP Riverside, Minneapolis, Minnesota, were
reported here by Wendell Snider and identified by Matt Solensky and Bud Tordoff. For
the rest of the nesting season, peregrines were apparently absent from this site, and we
did not count it as occupied by a territorial pair. However, Snider reported a single bird
July 23 to July 25, then no peregrines until a pair of adults (female b/g ?/A, male also
banded) appeared at the bridge on September 21. They were still present on October 8,
when this was written. The female was seen in the nest box on the cliff on two occasions
and the male at least once. They seemed closely bonded, hunted together mostly near the
bridge, and fed on the same kills. They probably will nest next year, if both survive.]
9. SP-NSP Black Dog Plant, Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota. Bob Anderson
(RRP) and Chuck Huske (NSP) report that three young fledged here this year, too old to
band on the scheduled day. The adults were not identified.
10. SP-NSP King Plant, Bayport, Washington County, Minnesota. Bob
Anderson reports that female Mae 31V, thirteen years old and nesting here for the
thirteenth time, paired with an unidentified male. Four eggs were laid but only one
hatched. The single female fledged. Two of the eggs were very white, according to
Anderson, an indication that Mae 31V may be approaching the end of her reproductive
life.
11. SP-NSP Sherco Plant, Becker, Sherburne County, Minnesota. Dan Orr, NSP
biologist, reports that two young were fledged here this year. The original banding date
had to be postponed until the young were too old to band safely. Orr identified the adult
female, three-year-old Seminoe W/A, new to this site and fledged in 1999 at NSP Prairie
Island, Minnesota, in 1999. Orr was not able to identify the adult male.
12. SP-NSP Monticello Plant, Monticello, Wright County, Minnesota. Dan Orr
(NSP) and Bob Anderson (RRP) report that an unidentified pair fledged four well-fed
young here, three females and a male. The catwalks on the stack on banding day were
littered with two Least Bitterns, one Green Heron, two Pied-billed Grebes, two Coots,
and six Sora rails. Both adults were banded, male b/r and purple (consistent with last
year’s male), female b/r and silver.
13. SP-Hull Rust Mine, Hibbing, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Norman and
Delores Ebert report that a male was seen at the end of March, a female in the first week
of April. Both were unbanded. Three young, judged by size to be two males and a
female, fledged in July from the same nest site on the south wall of the pit used in
previous years. The young were not banded.
14. SP-Minnesota Power and Light Boswell Energy Center, Cohasset, Itasca
County, Minnesota. A pair of unbanded adults fledged three young females, according to
Bob Anderson.
15. SP-Cargill Elevator, Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Bob Anderson
reports that four-year-old female *M/D, fledged in 1998 at Woodmen Tower, Omaha,
Nebraska, and here for at least the second year, paired with an unidentified male. Four
eggs were laid and three young males fledged.