I’m back from Norway and visited three Peregrine and Red-tailed Hawk nesting areas on the Upper West Side and around Columbia University on Friday.

Visits to the two Peregrine nesting areas, at 86th & West End Avenue and Riverside Church only resulted in seeing one adult Peregrine Falcon on Riverside Church. (I missed seeing the fledglings at the church when I was away.)

The Columbia College nest on John Jay had problems while I was away. One fledgling was on the ground and spend a day at the Wild Bird Fund before being returned, and one eyass passed away according to a Columbia University employee.

In New York City, we have nests at some sites that have difficulties due to Frounce in the pigeon populations and others that have problems with lead poisoning from the food chain.

The St. John the Divine nest has had serious problems with lead over the last few years. Given the problems this year at John Jay, I would suspect that these problems have carried over to the new location only a few blocks away from the Cathedral.

I did find the surviving fledgling on the northeast chimney of Hamilton Hall, who then flew to the roof of Kent Hall. It spent time calling for a parent, who given the direction the fledgling was looking at might have been on Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital.