Below is a summary of recent email and Discord (birding app) posts regarding Peregrine Falcons in downtown Muskegon. Here's a photo from Wildside Rehab of one of the juveniles that was "rescued" and is now in rehab prior to release.
As some of you may recall, peregrines successfully fledged numerous youngsters for several years using the nest boxes on what used to be the tallest object in Muskegon County, the smokestack of the B.C. Cobb plant.
Those boxes were moved to the roof of the Shoreline Inn before destruction of the smokestack. Although the boxes were never used as nest sites, peregrines were sometimes seen on that roof killing pigeons and rearing young.
Unlike the old Cobb Plant properties, ground level in downtown Muskegon is no place for a fledgling falcon. Three juveniles, one last year, two this year, were recovered from the ground near the Huntington Bank Building and it's been confirmed that peregrines are using that rooftop ledge for nesting.
Although there's nothing definite yet, it's possible that the Shoreline Inn boxes might be moved to the Huntington Bank building with future youngsters perhaps being banded as were the Cobb Plant young.
