{"id":473,"date":"2025-04-03T14:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/?p=473"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:57:19","slug":"one-of-our-2023-fledglings-has-taken-up-residence-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/2025\/04\/03\/one-of-our-2023-fledglings-has-taken-up-residence-in-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"One of our 2023 fledglings has taken up residence in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image-1024x732.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image-1024x732.png 1024w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image-768x549.png 768w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image-1536x1097.png 1536w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image-1200x857.png 1200w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image-1980x1414.png 1980w, https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2025\/04\/image.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Top left photo by Kathy Clark and others by Karl Platzer.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week Kathy Clark, Chief\/NJDEP Fish &amp; 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students and staff have noted the presence of the falcons since fall 2024 and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sjuhawknews.com\/35185\/opinions\/peregrine-falcons-barbelin-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even wrote about them in the school paper<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karl Platzer reports that BN\/24 has been observed daily since Fall 2024, usually perched on the Barbelin Hall bell tower at Saint Joseph\u2019s University Philadelphia campus (AKA Hawk Hill).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other news, the pair continues to incubate the four eggs. In another two weeks we will be watching for hatching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Kathy Clark, Chief\/NJDEP Fish &amp; 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\u2019s University in Philadelphia. She has been observed with a banded male falcon (BH\/40), that fledged from a nest atop the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"1970-01-01 00:00:00","action":"","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","browser_timezone_offset":0},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucnj.org\/falcon-camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}