Time for the cigars! Two baby falcons have hatched at the High Bridge! We're waiting for 2 more...

wow!!!!!! the babies are being fed on the 4-5 pm cam shot. So awsome

That is so sweet they are so cute and it is like amazing how they do that. It is the miracle of life. How did you get these photos anyway?\r\n

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Athena and her mate are feeding the 4 chicks many times a day now. They will be growing rapidly in the next weeks. We would expect them to leave the nest sometime around mid-June. That first flight from the nest will be something to see!

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According to the Associated Press via National Public Radio, a Minnesota peregrine falcon is facing relocation.

Here's the story:

"Wildlife officials are planning to relocate an aggressive peregrine falcon that's attacking pedestrians on a bridge in central Minnesota.

The mother falcon is raising her young about a block from a Mississippi River bridge in Sartell. The falcon has nearly hit several people, and in once case scratched the head of someone trying to cross the bridge.

Pat Redig with the University of Minnesota's raptor center says he's been given the go ahead by local officials to move the falcon's nest to another location.

'It's one of these things that we have to do as we try to bring people and wildlife together in close proximity, and this is one of the outcomes that can occur. We have to respond to the situation and we just can't not let it go,' Redig said.

Redig says he'll have to separate the falcon and her young in order to calm her down. He says peregrine falcons are usually very tolerant of people, but this one seems particularly aggressive."

Wow. Those little fluffballs are gaining feathers fast and looking more like adult peregrines every day. They've been flapping their wings and looking over the edge a lot. We expect them to fledge--leave the nest--sometime before June 16. They'll stay with their parents for about two months afterward, learning to hunt. First, the parents will find prey and the young learn to snatch it from them in mid-air. When the babies get good at that, they'll start learning to hunt on their own.

Peregrine chicks: Photo taken by the High Bridge web cam between 8 and 9 am, Friday, June 9.

Here's the sobering truth, though:
On average, only two juveniles sucessfully fledge per nest. And the first year is dangerous. But if a peregrine survives its first year, its chances of survival are pretty good. Some birds have lived to be 18 or 20, but those probably aren't typical examples. An average lifespan is probably somewhere between 2 and 8 years.

One of our falcons spent part of today learning to fly. The others are doing a lot of looking and wing flapping, and they'll be joining their nestmate soon.

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