Here's an article from today's NY Times, on falcon volunteers during
fledging at some major cities around the country.

Does the DC area have anything like this going on around the railroad bridge
falcons on the Potomac?

-- Scott Michaud
Annandale, VA
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For Falcons as for People, Life in the Big City Has Its Risks as Well as Its
Rewards
By MELISSA SANFORD NY TIMES, June 28, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/national/28falcons.html

SALT LAKE CITY, June 27 - While missionaries explained the Mormon faith and
young brides posed for their wedding pictures in Temple Square, a group set
apart by their bright orange vests had another mission entirely - witnessing
and abetting one of the most basic coming-of-age rituals in nature.

Two peregrine falcons are teaching their two fledglings to fly in the middle
of Temple Square, the headquarters of the Mormon Church and the most popular
tourist site in Salt Lake City, with a cadre of human volunteers keeping a
daylight watch under the nest, prepared to act as a safety net.

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