Next time you are scurrying across Kennedy Plaza, stop for a second or two and look up (close your mouth). Peregrine falcons are once again nesting atop the Bank of America building. According to Tom Meade writing in the ProJo the nestlings hatch after 28 days and we have another little family there right now.

Joe Zbyrowski built the falcons’ nesting box on the 30th floor of the building in 1996. Last week, he watched the adult female leave the nest for about two minutes. She returned with a downy young pigeon that she had snatched from its nest and killed. She shredded it to feed to her nestlings.

Yum. (Check out the work of Bill Murphy and Scott Kingsley in the photo gallery.)

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