http://www.xcelenergy.com/XLWEB/CDA/0,get%20this,1-1-1_4359_9289_10448-10321
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The above URL will take you to a story about the death of Mae the Peregrine
at the King Plant in Minnesota. She parented 37 young birds in her
lifetime. Mae was born in Minnesota in 1988. She was the offspring of
MF-1, the first Peregrine to be returned to the wild from a captive
breeding project in the upper Midwest. Mae was also the first Peregrine to
be watched via "bird cam." We are saddened by her death, as are hundreds
of people who have watched her raise her many broods, moment by moment. One
of Mae's offspring, Amy, was one of the first falcons to successfully "cross
over" from nesting on smokestacks to cliffs. She nested on Mason's Bluff in
2001.

My husband's (Mark Ahlness) third grade class of "Mae cam fans" was given
the honor of naming one of her offspring in 1998, and they voted on the name
"Smoke". Smoke nested with a falcon named Sophia at the HighBridge plant a
couple of years later. Below is a slide show that Mark assembled for his
classroom from the daily cam shots in 1998. At this time, the photographs
were taken every five minutes.

http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/falcon

You go girl!

Janeanne Houston
www.elmgroveproductions.com
www.northwestartists.org
houstojc at plu.edu
janeannesoprano at comcast.net
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of
suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on
pure joy! - Louise Bogan