Of Peregrine Falcons and Short-eared Owls

At our meeting last night, Chip Francke presented an interesting program about Peregrine Falcons with emphasis on those that bred for several years at Grand Haven.  The Board of Light and Power smokestack will come down soon leaving no place high enough in that area for peregrines to breed. * 

In better news, Chip mentioned that Short-eared Owls are back on the south Wastewater properties.

- Ric

* Peregrine nest boxes remain at the Consumers Power Campbell plant (between Grand Haven and Holland) and in downtown Grand Rapids.  The Muskegon nest boxes from the old B.C. Cobb stack are still awaiting residents on the roof of the Shoreline Inn hotel.  Since the relocation of those boxes, peregrines were reported eating pigeons on that roof with one even entering a nest box.  Those reports are old, however, and we know of no recent sightings of local peregrines in the Muskegon area.