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Yesterday morning our resident peregrines were excited by the presence of a third peregrine falcon.

The Parapet camera has a loose connection and is not transmitting live feed right now.

Rebecca laid the fourth egg just before midnight on 3/25.

Rebecca laid the second egg early in the morning on Tuesday, 3/21/2017

Rebecca laid the first egg early in the morning on Sunday, 3/19/2017

Rebecca and Kewpee are now visiting the nest box multiple times a day and both have been scraping the gravel in the bottom of the box to create a shallow depression where, hopefully, eggs will be laid in late March.

One of Kalamazoo’s  first successfully hatched peregrine falcons, Promise, was mentioned in the July 18, 2016 issue of TIME magazine, which detailed his relation to the Kalamazoo Promise. The article, covering “240 Reasons to Celebrate America Right Now,” listed Kalamazoo at number 145 as, “the city where high school grads go to college for free.”

The young Kalamazoo Peregrines continue their training in downtown.  As they are roaming more, they are more difficult to see predictably especially midday. 

Checker (22/C Black/blue) returned home this afternoon after spending about 10 days at the Braveheart Raptor Rehabilitation Center

Checker's release was covered in the Kalamazoo Gazette.  For the on line version, you can follow this link.

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2016/06/kalamazoo_peregrine_chick_chec.html