Monday, December 29, 2008

AEP Falcons







Let me introduce this wonderful nestsite:

The residential pair are Roosevelt and Freedom. They live atop the American Electric Power office building in Fort Wayne, Indiana. At 26 stories high, they have got a terrific view of the city because they are on top of the tallest building in town. It's almost like being on top of a 400-foot-high cliff.
The five-walled nest box was built by the department's biologists in 1993, but no tenants used it until a few years ago when Ms. Freedom from Evansville and Bandit from Alabama, moved in and started having kids. Indiana Department of Natural Resources set up the TV camera. In '98 Bandit moved out and Roosevelt joined Freedom to produce four terrific chicks. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources biologists and volunteers from Soarin' Hawk and the Audubon Society help take care of the pergerine falcons.

http://www.aep.com/environmental/education/falconcam/birdcam_lg.aspx















Roosevelt is keeping watch over the nestsite and digging an occasional hole...