Falcon chicks find a new home

[Donna]

http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2010/06/15/news/top_stories/doc4c17a611000ed424354249.txt

Two falcon chicks from Queens are now sharing a nest with three chicks and their mom atop the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge’s Brooklyn tower. Chris Nadareski, a wildlife biologist with the city Department of Environmental Protection said the hatchling's original nesting place in Queens was unsuitable because the chicks would have trouble leaving the nest safely as they learn how to fly. He has coordinated the city peregrine falcon program for over 16 years.  more with cute pics



 

[Bonnie]

Just wish I could get into the Chris Naderski loop.  Great story.

[Donna]

http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2010/06/15/news/top_stories/doc4c17a611000ed424354249.txt

Two falcon chicks from Queens are now sharing a nest with three chicks and their mom atop the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge’s Brooklyn tower. Chris Nadareski, a wildlife biologist with the city Department of Environmental Protection said the hatchling's original nesting place in Queens was unsuitable because the chicks would have trouble leaving the nest safely as they learn how to fly. He has coordinated the city peregrine falcon program for over 16 years.  more with cute pics

UPDATE:

Verrazano Peregrine Falcon Couple Adopts Two:
MTA Bridges Home To 11 New Chicks
Two peregrine falcon chicks found in an unsuitable nesting place in Queens were relocated to the top of the Brooklyn tower of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge where they were welcomed into the nest by a mother falcon already caring for three new chicks of her own.   

Now she has 5?? Is that bridge any safer Bonnie? I would think any bridge with traffic is dangerous. Wow!

[Annette]

UPDATE:

Verrazano Peregrine Falcon Couple Adopts Two:
MTA Bridges Home To 11 New Chicks
Two peregrine falcon chicks found in an unsuitable nesting place in Queens were relocated to the top of the Brooklyn tower of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge where they were welcomed into the nest by a mother falcon already caring for three new chicks of her own.   

Now she has 5?? Is that bridge any safer Bonnie? I would think any bridge with traffic is dangerous. Wow!

Very good news! 

[Bonnie]

I don't know where the scrape is on that bridge, but it could be under the roadway or way up high on a tower and close to Brooklyn.  If Chris thought it was safer, then it is.  He also put that box on top of the south tower of the Throgs Neck Bridge and I thought that was not safe, but apparently it is, too.

I wasn't going to post this given our sensitive year here in Rochester, but one of the Broadway Bridge fledglings broke its leg.  Bruce Yolton thought it might have to be euthanized.  Don't know the result.  I saw both fledglings eating a pigeon about three days before.  Now that doesn't seem like a safe bridge to me.  Chicks are close to the rail of the subway and roadway below.

Funny, I just learned about this from a falcon watcher at Riverside Church.  Saw one eyas/fledgling there.  Both parents were at/near the scrape.

[Donna]

I don't know where the scrape is on that bridge, but it could be under the roadway or way up high on a tower and close to Brooklyn.  If Chris thought it was safer, then it is.  He also put that box on top of the south tower of the Throgs Neck Bridge and I thought that was not safe, but apparently it is, too.

I wasn't going to post this given our sensitive year here in Rochester, but one of the Broadway Bridge fledglings broke its leg.  Bruce Yolton thought it might have to be euthanized.  Don't know the result.  I saw both fledglings eating a pigeon about three days before.  Now that doesn't seem like a safe bridge to me.  Chicks are close to the rail of the subway and roadway below.

Funny, I just learned about this from a falcon watcher at Riverside Church.  Saw one eyas/fledgling there.  Both parents were at/near the scrape.

Oh poor baby...what a shame...bridges scare me, not only for falcons!

[Kris G.]

I don't know where the scrape is on that bridge, but it could be under the roadway or way up high on a tower and close to Brooklyn.  If Chris thought it was safer, then it is.  He also put that box on top of the south tower of the Throgs Neck Bridge and I thought that was not safe, but apparently it is, too.

I wasn't going to post this given our sensitive year here in Rochester, but one of the Broadway Bridge fledglings broke its leg.  Bruce Yolton thought it might have to be euthanized.  Don't know the result.  I saw both fledglings eating a pigeon about three days before.  Now that doesn't seem like a safe bridge to me.  Chicks are close to the rail of the subway and roadway below.

Funny, I just learned about this from a falcon watcher at Riverside Church.  Saw one eyas/fledgling there.  Both parents were at/near the scrape.

Oh poor baby...what a shame...bridges scare me, not only for falcons!

[Bonnie]

I just read a few whole articles about the Queens to Brooklyn move.  Two chicks hatched atop the Throgs Neck Bridge and two chicks were moved from the Throgs Neck to Verrazano Narrows Bridge.  It also said they 'found' the eyasses.  So I don't know if another pair chose a different spot on the bridge or not.  ??

And the scrape on the Verrazano is on top of the Brooklyn tower.  But the Throgs Neck scrape is on top of the Queens tower.