Salt Lake City Falcon

 

Where natural cliffs are lacking, Peregrine Falcons set up housekeeping on tall buildings and sky scrapers in large cities.
Salt Lake City, Utah has a pair that has been coming every year since the 1980’s.
It is on the Joseph Smith Building downtown by the Mormon temple.
They are all set up with a nesting box and a camera for our viewing pleasure.
This year they had two which is about the same number every year, one female and one male.
The male was “dubbed” Early Bird” when he decided to take off flying and never quite made it.
He was rescued by volunteers, before he was run over by a car on the road below.
He was placed back in his box to try to fly another day.