Posted: 4/24/2008 5:17:01 PM EDT
A Peregrin falcon we have nesting on the smoke stack at work.  It has very large TALONS!  I bet those eggs taste bitter   24 were released by the Dept of Ag in the early 90's in downtown KC. Somehow they forgot to band them  . All but one pair left and were never seen again until last year when a new pair, different from the ones still living downtown, nested at my plant. I'm told it had one that died by trying to fly before it could fly. The box is about 300' up  I think they kill for sport because I find headless bodies and bodyless heads of all kinds of birds on top of the boiler. |
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Yep thats Front street. To get this kind of action you have to put on a harness and start climbing. See the guy in the red coat and white hardhat way down there? That's not me   Falcon Shanty up close.  A camera to watch the hatch would be cool but you don't want to bother the nest too much now that its active. |
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I can see it now: "Earlier today, a routine smoke stack inspection took a turn for the worse when a hapless worker stumbled upon a mother Peregrine Falcon and her young. Witnesses say they heard some screaming followed by "Kawwww! Kywahh!" One co-worker described the event in detail: I heard a lot of screaming, so I went outside, and saw HRSGUNNER being attacked by some sort of black streaky thing. GUNNER tried to jump over the rail but was restrained by his harness, so he dangled. For hours. The thing... kept... diving at him. Then it ate him. Experts say it may take weeks to find enough evidence to identify the body. Here are the last pictures Mr. GUNNER took." |
