Minnesota Power 30 WEST SUPERIOR STREET DULUTH, MINNESOTA 55802 www.mnpower.com Marilyn Weber, Editor Apr/May 2005
Welcome home, Bandit and WindSong!
Peregrines, the fastest raptor on earth, migrate from Arkansas to Argentina. ey may winter at power plants if there is open water and an adequate nearby food supply, such as pigeons.
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or the th year, a pair of Peregrine falcons has returned to Minnesota Power’s nesting platform near the top of a -foot stack at Boswell Energy Center near Grand Rapids. Bandit and WindSong are making Boswell their spring/summer home again this year.
We invite you to watch them raise their young on our live Web camera on ’s Internet site: www.mnpower.com. Click on FalconCam. is is the third season our FalconCam has been live at the nest. We’ve had tens of thousands of visitors at our site from all over the world observing this natural wonder.
Last year the pair of Peregrines raised four chicks at the nest for a total of young born to date. WindSong will lay eggs in early April and tend to them until sometime in May when they hatch. Care, feeding and flight training are the tasks of the parents throughout the summer. Electric utilities like MP have played a key role in Peregrine recovery
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efforts here in Minnesota and the upper Midwest. is once endangered species has returned to breed on high cliffs throughout the state, a more natural habitat. Osprey are another raptor that have made a comeback in our region. ey build nests on platforms we’ve attached to power line structures. is also keeps the nest away from electric wires to avoid outages. is allowed to provide chicks to other states that are actively trying to reintroduce them to suitable areas. www.mnpower.com
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