Had a nice early morning visit to the Student Village high rise buildings on the Boston University campus this morning.  With clear skies and bright sun, had nice looks at the resident pair of peregrine falcons that make their home atop the 26-story StuVi II.  They were active around the tower and then settled in around the nest box.  The falcons maintain a variety of regular perch locations around the extended complex of nearby buildings.  Sightings of both peregrines are frequently made from a distance, at Magazine Beach in Cambridge on the opposite side of the Charles River.

According to Tom French at MassWildlife, the BU male has a left leg band with 12/BD black over green, banded as a chick in 2013 on the Newark Paper Company in a renovated mill building at 250 Canal Street, Lawrence.   On the left, is a file photo of this same bird as a hatch year fledgling, getting ready to make first flight.  The image was taken on June 4, 2013 from a rooftop in a complex of mill buildings in Lawrence, MA.