This week Kathy Clark, Chief/NJDEP Fish & Wildlife/ENSP received a report of BN/24, a female that was banded at the Union County Courthouse in 2023. She is now frequenting a tall building at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She has been observed with a banded male falcon (BH/40), that fledged from a nest atop the NJ side of the Walt Whitman Bridge in 2022.
Students and staff have noted the presence of the falcons since fall 2024 and even wrote about them in the school paper. They have been seen perching, feeding and mating on Barbelin Hall. It looks like the site could be a great location for them to nest. Add an igloo atop the roof, add some gravel and you have a new falcon nest site.
Karl Platzer reports that BN/24 has been observed daily since Fall 2024, usually perched on the Barbelin Hall bell tower at Saint Joseph’s University Philadelphia campus (AKA Hawk Hill).
In other news, the pair continues to incubate the four eggs. In another two weeks we will be watching for hatching.