cover photo - Midwest Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project

suggested on a blast furnace at Bethlehem Steel in early April and 2 recently abandoned eggs
were discovered on April 11.
135. LE-NIPSCO Plant, Michigan City, LaPorte County, Indiana. Twelve-year-old male Uncle
Billy b/r 3/*B, here for the twelfth year, paired again with nine-year-old Cloud Dancer b/r
*B/*G, eight years at this site. Four eggs were laid but none were known to have hatched.
136. NB-Southside Landfill / IPL Stout (Harding St.) Plant, Indianapolis, Marion County,
Indiana. Although the adults, an unbanded female and eleven-year-old Orion b/r L/*8, appear to
be the same as in 2006 and were present at or near the nest box through June, no evidence of
nesting was found.
137. NB-Cline Avenue at Lake Michigan, East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana. Nesting has
occurred under this roadway for the previous 18 years. This year, twelve-year-old Laurie b/r
E/*H, here since 2000, and an unbanded male were observed sporadically throughout the season.
A strong-flying juvenile was perched near the nest site on June 19, but it could have fledged
from an adjacent territory.
No activity was reported for the following Indiana sites in 2007:
[Mittal Steel - Indiana Harbor West, East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana]
OHIO
Dave Scott, Ohio DNR, collected the Ohio peregrine information.
In summary: Division of Wildlife staff and volunteers monitored 23 territorial pairs of
peregrine falcons around Ohio during 2007. Eggs were produced at 22 sites and during 24
nesting attempts (2 attempts each at the Hilliard Road Bridge & I-480 Bridge sites). In 2007, 19
nesting attempts were successful, both in terms of hatching young and fledging young falcons.
All nesting attempts at Columbus (State Office Tower), Lakewood (Hilliard Road Bridge), and
Springfield (Tecumseh Building) were unsuccessful. More than 76 eggs were produced in Ohio
this year; however, please note that actual counts or estimates were unavailable for 4 nesting
attempts. We believe 57 eggs hatched in 2007; we were able to access and band 53 young
falcons from these nests. Assuming the late nests fledge successfully, Ohio falcon nests will have
fledged 56 young in 2007 (~2.95 young per successful nest), down slightly from last year’s 3.33
young per successful nest.
138. SP-Commodore Perry Motor Inn, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Dave Scott and Bill Roshak,
Ohio Division of Wildlife, report that six-year-old female Striker 7/*5, a 2001 fledge from
Cleves, Ohio, here for the second year, paired with six-year-old male Angus bl 6/3, here for the
fourth year. Three eggs were laid in late March; all hatched, were banded and the three males
fledged between June 13th and June 15th.
139. SP-Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Dave Scott and Tom Henry, Ohio
Division of Wildlife, report that eight-year-old female b/r S/*W, here for the sixth year, paired
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