The box is located at Ameren Missouri's Portage de Sioux power plant in St. Charles County, Missouri.

Siouxzee is sitting on three eggs this year. Last year she successfully hatched and raised five with her un-named mate.
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I would check in on this nest box occasionally, but really didn't take any good pictures. All four seem to have fledged in a blink of an eye. I tuned in yesterday and the box was empty. This morning I looked again and managed to catch the attached picture. The last picture I took is also attached.

Posted on the Ameren Website http://www.ameren.com/FalconWatch/Pages/FalconCam.html

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Falcon Watch

As of today, June 27, 2013, the nest camera is officially turned off until mid-March 2014 - when hopefully the first egg will be laid in the nesting box. SiouxZee and Coal had another successful season, having 4 eggs, raising and fledging 4 youngsters - 3 males and 1 female. The staff at the Ameren Missouri Sioux Energy Center, the power plant where the nesting box is located, has not had to touch any of the chicks, meaning the fledging was successful. Many times with almost all peregrine nests that are near concentrations of people, a youngster is found on the ground. Just like human children, the first few "steps" are awkward, and the peregrine chicks occasionally get themselves into places that are not safe. Not so with our group this season!

The parents will continue to feed the youngsters for as many as 6 weeks, as the kids gain the necessary flight skills to capture their own prey and survive in the wild on their own. When the chicks do finally leave their parent's nesting territory, they may hang around each other for a month or more, but will end up traveling to who-knows-where totally solo. It would not be out of the question for one of our kids to show up in Central or even South America, or any of the corners of our country or Canada. In Latin, peregrine means "the wanderer," so the species was aptly named.

Thanks for your interest in SiouxZee and Coal and their new chicks. It's exciting to be a part of the process and have the opportunity to observe their parenting. See you next year!

Jeff Meshach, Director
World Bird Sanctuary

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