6-4-09   Looking at my short hand title, I can see that there may be folks who want to know what PEFA means, and why is it included in the peregrine updates?  PEFA is the 4 alpha code that bird banders and others refer to PEregrine FAlcons in notes and some other documentation.  I will probably [...]

6/3/09           Sad news.  The nest site established by the 2007 male yellow/black and the unbanded female is no more.  Everything seemed to be going well all the way through 5/19/09 and both parents were bringing food into the crevice located below the double hack boxes in the Cirque along the Endless Wall, but after that, [...]

Not much to report of the peregrines released yesterday.  Purple/pink band, a female from the Ben Harrison Bridge in Hopewell, VA  was spotted walking around in front and under hack box 2.  She hung out at that site for a while, visiting with the inhabitants of the box and exploring the area.  We heard other [...]

The first set of young peregrines for the 2009 New River Gorge Peregrine Restoration Project were released on Tuesday, June 2nd from their hack box located in the Grandview section of the Park.  Six young peregrines hopped out of their hack box door, feasted on the many quail carcasses we’d spread around right in front [...]