G'day, Tweets.

The current Tacoma peregrine couple is continuing to mate.

I've finally succumbed and named them for the sake of convenience. The
new adult female is now March the Peregrine (so named because she
appeared at the end of March). The resident male I've dubbed the Guy
Peregrine or G.P. for short. In the years I've watched him, he has
distinguished himself by his essential guyness--by his life and
tribulations as a guy.

I haven't yet seen any signs that G.P. and March have been on the new
nest box at the Wells Fargo Building. They've hopped in and out of the
bridge's east counterweight and sometimes the west counterweight.

They've also shown an adventurous taste in dining. Roger Orness, who
watched them last Sunday for five hours, reports that he saw G.P. stoop
out of view apparently for a pigeon. But G.P. flew back into sight again
"with what appeared to be a rodent with a long tail, sporting no wings."
He disappeared again for a while and then joined March on the bridge and
"presented her a similar headless prey item, that required no plucking. .
.. . The prey seemed very tough and stringy. I'm thinking it was the same
possible warf rat, that he had previously caught."

Roger saw G.P. and March mate two and perhaps three times.

--cheers, Jim Lyles, Tacoma

http://www.nwrain.com/~jrlyles/Tacoma_Peregrines.html