The year prior to and for the first couple of years of the recent MD/DC atlas, a pair of Peregrines nested on the Thomas Johnson bridge between southern Calvert and St. Mary's counties. They have been absent for the last couple of years and it is rumored that they are nesting on the liquid natural gas platform on the Bay side. The LNG platform is visible from the bridge so it's a short jaunt for a falcon. Perhaps they'll return to the bridge this year?

When they were nesting on the bridge, they were using an old Osprey nest. First it was on the St. Mary's side of the river then on the Calvert side. Access to the nests would be only by crazy people who rappelled down from the top of the bridge span though the nests were easily scoped from land.
 
Tyler Bell

California, Maryland



----- Original Message ----
From: Melanie Lynch <>
To: 
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 12:44:20 PM
Subject: [MDOSPREY] Peregrine bridge nests?

I work for Chesapeake Bay Magazine (web and IT although I have 
written a couple of articles) and one of our writers brought up a 
possible short article on Peregrines nesting in bridges on the Bay & 
environs.

I know of the pair on the Severn River Bridge thanks to Dan Haas and 
that there is another pair on the Rte 50 Bay Bridge.  Just for 
research purposes, what other bridges does anyone know of in the 
immediate Chesapeake/Potomac watershed that have peregrine nests?

If you consider ID'ing locations similar to publicizing an owl nest, 
replying offlist is fine, too. We are not interested so much in 
publishing a comprehensive list as much as getting an idea for how 
many bridges out there have nests. Knowing which bridges keeps us 
from counting a location twice.
-- 
Melanie


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