KALAMAZOO, MI -- Braving the heights to install a nesting box outside the 13th floor of the Fifth Third Bank building in downtown Kalamazoo seems to have done the trick. For the third year in a row, a pair of peregrine falcons has signaled its intentions to use the box to raise a family.

"The falcons are active - in and out

of the box a lot," Kalamazoo Audubon Soicety member Gail Walter said. She said she has noted some courting activity -the female stealing food from

the male. "Or maybe he offered it to her but she doesn't stick around for any

small talk)."

Bird watchers can observe those actions from a video cam installed in the box.

"You can see on the video that Rebecca was scraping the gravel

in the box, which is a sign of getting the box ready," Walter said.



"Mating should happen soon," she said.

A video camera is also installed the parapet above the nesting box, allowing observers to watch the birds in flight.

Here's a link to the cameras.

Last year the first egg was laid March 28.