Yesterday two pigeons flew up to the peregrines’ nest ledge, canoodled a bit, and checked out the digs in the box. Heyyyy–nice spot. They came back again today for awhile.

Momma Peregrine showed up a little later, went into the nest box–and put her head down and started sniffing around where those brazen wingrats had dared to trod.

She and her mate had to reclaim their box! And stand on the ledge and show the world just exactly which apex predators own this spot thankyouverymuch.

Their four young are not yet great at this hunting thing so the parents are still making sure they get enough.

And now they know there’s a Doordash delivery just begging to happen.