Not Much To Show For a Gray Week

Unusual clouds at sunrise, 30 December 2020 (photo by Kate St. John)

2 January 2021

Since last Sunday Pittsburgh has been warm, wet and overcast except for a single sunny day, 29 December, which I largely spent indoors (foolish me!). I don’t have much to show for a gray week.

The next morning, 30 December, dawned with thin ragged clouds, a tantalizing end to sunshine.

On New Year’s Eve I took a three hour walk in Schenley Park and stopped to look for the Pitt peregrines. There’s a peregrine perched on this building. Can you see it?

There’s a peregrine on this building. Can you see it? Pittsburgh, 31 Dec 2020, 11:43am (photo by Kate St. John)

Zoomed in, the peregrine is on the right hand leaf-stem. Morela matches the building.

Peregrine falcon on the leaf-stem, 31 Dec 2020 (photo by Kate St. John)

Later she spent an hour at the nestbox.

Morela at the nestbox, 31 Dec 2020, 2:20pm (photo from the National Aviary snapshot camera at Univ of Pittsburgh)
Morela preening at the nestbox, 31 Dec 2020, 2:34pm (photo from the National Aviary snapshot camera at Univ of Pittsburgh)

New Year’s Day 2021 was a washout. No photos. No peregrines. (I tried to find them. no luck) It rained most of the day.

(photos by Kate St. John)

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