6.12.24 McKinley Park, Chicago, IL

  Please be aware, this post has content of the Peregrine Falcons with prey.

 

On 6.12.24 my mother, father, brother and I visited this McKinley Park industrial building area to check on the Peregrine Falcon family at 8:03 AM. One of the Peregrine Falcon nestling was in the window. I later returned with my father at 3:25PM. We met nature photographer Jeff Nelson and searched for the fledgling unsuccessfully. I later returned with my father at 5:06PM. The Peregrine Falcon father brought a Budgie to the nestling.

See more about these Peregrine Falcons on my McKinley Peregrines page


3:25PM Peregrine Falcon (female)

3:25PM Peregrine Falcon (female)

3:25PM Peregrine Falcon (female) watching a pigeon fly by

3:21PM Peregrine Falcon (male) stretching

3:23PM Peregrine Falcon (male)

3:25PM Peregrine Falcon (female)


5:06PM Peregrine Falcon (male) plucking a pigeon

5:06PM Peregrine Falcon (male) plucking a pigeon

5:22PM Peregrine Falcon (male) and nestling (by larger size, seemingly female)
The Peregrine Falcon father brought a Budgie. 

5:22PM Peregrine Falcon (male) handing off the Budgie to the nestling

5:22PM Peregrine Falcon (male) and the nestling bringing the budgie behind the window to eat it

Pigeons in a drainage tube we learned the Peregrine Falcon parents had occupied in a previous year.

This rabbit walked past us while we observed the Peregrine falcons.




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