2002 - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

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them by state capitol staff and probably nested elsewhere, at an undiscovered site. They
presumably failed, for the fourth consecutive year, because no young appeared in midsummer
[Grand Island, north of Munising, Alger County, Michigan. Joe Rogers reports
that since the Forest Service put a campground above the peregrine nest site, there has
been no nesting there.]
[Trap Hills, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Joe Rogers reports that one peregrine
was seen here in a three-day observation period. No evidence of nesting.]
SOUTH DAKOTA
[Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. No report of any peregrine
activity in 2002.]
NEBRASKA
64. SP-Woodmen Tower, Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. John Dinan and
Carey Grell, Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, report that eight-year-old male
Zeus X/R, here for the seventh year, paired again with three-year-old female Amelia
*E/*V, here for the second year. Again, both birds were observed at the site throughout
the winter of 2001-2002. Four eggs were laid by April 10, the first egg hatched on May
7, and all had hatched by May 13. All four young, three females and a male, were
banded on May 24. The male nestling was found dead on June 10; it apparently had
fallen from the nest ledge. The remaining three young fledged by June 19.
IOWA
65. SP-Firstar Bank, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa. Pat Schlarbaum, Bruce
Ehresman, Iowa DNR, and Jodeane Cancilla, Macbride Raptor Project, report that fouryear-old
female *S/*5, nesting here for the third time, and eleven-year-old male 64X
(identified previously as 64T), here for the tenth year, produced four eggs, hatched three,
and fledged two females and a male.
66. SP-American Republic, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Pat Schlarbaum
and Bruce Ehresman, Iowa DNR, report that eleven-year-old female 13R, nesting here
for the tenth year, paired again with eleven-year-old male 93T, his ninth year at this site.
Their first nest failed, they re-nested and fledged one young male.
67. SP-MidAmerica Energy, Quad Cities, Scott County, Iowa. New Site. Pat
Schlarbaum, Iowa DNR, reports that three-year-old female Scorpio 8/*E, hacked in 1999
at Muncie, Indiana, paired with three-year-old male P/D, hacked in 1999 at Dubuque,
Iowa. They fledged three young, two females and a male.
[Centennial Bridge, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa. Although peregrines nested
on this bridge in 2001, Pat Schlarbaum, IA DNR, and Shawn Diedrich report that there
was no peregrine nesting on this bridge this year. Schlarbaum suspects that both of the
birds at MidAmerica Energy, pair 67, moved there from the bridge.]