Not that I would ever recommend this activity, but the falcons
regularly perch on the very tp of the West-bound span's Western-most
tower. Take a (careful) look on your next trip over the bridge. I've
seen the pair there most often on my travels back and forth over the
bridge. They are much easier to spot when there is a lot of traffic.

Now that spring is in the air, the pair are quite active and often in
very close proximity to each other, after all...  courtship is going
on regularly these days.

There are two boxes on the East-bound span on either side of the
biggest towers, placed well below the roadway.  Unfortunately, those
who study PEFA's in Virginia have found that bridge nesting success is
less, due to inexperienced fliers either making their first landing
attempts on concrete road surface or H2O.  At failure-prone scrapes,
they now relocate chicks to a hack box at the New River Gorge in West
Virginia.

TMI? It's either discuss this or do my taxes.  Ok, back to work.

Good Birding,

Dan Haas
West Annapolis, MD



On 3/13/10, Rick Sussman <> wrote:
> That happened to me several years back when I was on my way back from
> Chestertown, from an MOS BOD meeting. I was a passenger and we were heading
> westbound over the bridge, when I looked over and saw a Peregrine swoop up
> towards the bridge right next to us, just below eye level.  Neat!
>
> Rick Sussman
> Woodbine,MD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: maren gimpel <>
> To: 
> Sent: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 9:09 pm
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Bay Bridge Peregrine
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>
> Dan Small and I had a Peregrine Falcon fly along side us as we travelled the
> astbound span of the bay bridge today at 1:17 pm.  We were on the QA side of
> he bridge which was nice because the last time we saw a PEFA on the bridge
> on
> eb. 22 we were on the AA side.  Now we've got it for both counties this
> year.
> Maren Gimpel
> hestertown
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