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Cleveland, Ohio, at the third building used in the past three years. Four eggs were laid,
three hatched, and one male and two females fledged around June 8.
101. SP-First Merit Bank, Akron, Summit County, Ohio. Four-year-old female
Chesapeake *P/*S, here for the second year, and seven-year-old male Bandit 3/*P, here
for the sixth year, produced four eggs and fledged four young, three females and a male,
around June 13, according to Dave Scott and Tom Henry.
102. SP-Ironton/Russell Bridge, Lawrence County, Ohio/Greenup County,
Kentucky. Dave Scott and Keith Morrow, Ohio Division of Wildlife, report that an
unbanded male and four-year-old female Lucy black *B/0, fledged in 1998 in Toronto,
Ontario, nested for the second year in a large hollow beam under the road surface of this
Ohio River bridge. They produced four eggs and hatched all four by April 22. One
young was found dead in the hollow beam prior to fledging. Only two of the other three
were seen briefly on the bridge outside the nest site in early June, suggesting that only
two might have fledged successfully. Subsequent sightings of adults without any young
suggest that no young survived here beyond mid-June.
103. LE-J.M. Stuart Power Plant, Aberdeen, Brown County, Ohio. New Site.
A banded but unidentified female and an unidentified male laid at least three eggs at this
power plant before March 20 but the nest failed before April 29, according to Dave Scott.
Falcons were also reported at the Aberdeen Ohio River Bridge in April and May.
104. NB-Rhodes State Office Tower, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Dave
Scott and Donna Daniel, Ohio Division of Wildlife, report that the resident male Bandit
(unbanded, but identity presumed by plumage and behavior), here for the ninth year
paired with a banded but unidentified female, but no nesting occurred. Last year’s female
here, Katie *B/*U, was injured just before the nesting season.
105. NB-Bank One, Canton, Stark County, Ohio. Last year a pair failed at this
site. This year, a single falcon was seen in February and a pair was reported on a nearby
church in late May.
106. NB-Bank One, Lima, Allen County, Ohio. Last year, Dave Scott and Bill
Roshak reported that a pair of one-year-old falcons were present here but did not nest.
On August 16, 2001, the male, Pfdotcom 5/*R, was identified by Judy Yerkey in Detroit,
Michigan. This year a single falcon was seen in early March. In April, male Maddox
K/M was identified here; he fledged from the Bohn Building in Cleveland in 2000. Dave
Scott suspects that Maddox K/M may be the “new” male that showed in Toledo after the
resident male there was injured, but this was not confirmed. Two falcons were seen in
late April, and female Charger 1/*7, fledged in 2001 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was
identified in July.
KANSAS
107. NB-Kansas Power and Light, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Joanne
Brier and E. Potter report that two peregrines were seen here intermittently from March
23 to at least July 18. Brier saw bands on one bird on July 7. Again, both observers
think there may have been a nesting somewhere in the Topeka area, but there is no solid
evidence.