Cathedral of Learning, Univ of Pittsburgh:

All four of Carla and Ecco’s youngsters have fledged and are now hard to find until they nag for food. Their parents look for places to avoid the “kids.” The nest is usually the safe zone until …

Yesterday Ecco and Carla bowed at the nest and Carla sunbathed. (Spots on the camera cover are from recent rainstorms.)

But one of the “kids” — Blue — burst onto nest at 10:18am to shout at Ecco.

The streaming app was choppy without audio when this happened but you get the idea. Yes, it was Blue.

Downtown Pittsburgh, 3rd Avenue:

Yesterday, 13 June, I stopped by the Third Ave nest and found a chick preening at the ledge opening (photos at top and below).

Terzo was snoozing above.

Lori Maggio knows there are at least two chicks in the nest and on 11 June she was able to see the younger one from the Smithfield Street Bridge. This one appears to be a week+ younger than the other. Yesterday it was probably still not old enough to come to the ledge edge.

These two will fledge at least a week apart; there will be many opportunities to photograph them in June.

Sewickley Bridge, Ohio River:

All four youngsters have fledged, though Jeff Cieslak has seen only two of them. On 10 June both parents were present while a juvie stretched its wings nearby.

62nd Street Bridge, Allegheny River:

As mentioned yesterday, Jeff Cieslak and Adam Knoerzer have figured out that the peregrine pair at the 62nd Street Bridge is the couple whose nest blew away at East Liberty Presbyterian Church in late March. See how they figured it out at 62nd Street Peregrines Came from East Liberty.

Tarentum Bridge, Allegheny River:

Yesterday Dave Brooke saw five out of six Tarentum peregrines. On 11 June Dan Wyrostek saw three chicks lounging and flapping.

The “flapper” joined the “loungers.”

Westinghouse Bridge, Turtle Creek:

Dana Nesiti confirms that both juvies have fledged and they are still hanging out with their parents.

In this 9 June photo the mother is above the youngster.

On 8 June one of the youngsters was eating at the catwalk when his mother snatched a bite of food. No problem. There’s enough to go around.

The Status Table …

… at the top is a screenshot of the table taken on 14 June 2026. Here’s the up-to-date table if you’re reading this many months later.

Downtown Pittsburgh, 3rd Avenue:

On Thursday 4 June Lori Maggio stopped by Third Avenue to see the Downtown peregrines.

From the Smithfield St Bridge I could see at least two maybe three of them [the chicks]. The adult female was in the nest at the time and Terzo was on the beam above the nest ledge. The pictures from the bridge are not great due to the heat coming off the buildings and the bus/vehicle traffic shaking the bridge up and down.

— email from Lori Maggio, 4 June 2026

The female perched on a Lawrence Hall gargoyle.

Terzo watched from the upper airshaft beam.

The chicks appear to be about 23 days old on 4 June, in which case they hatched around 12 May and will fledge around 21 June.

It’s worth checking the Third Avenue site around June 13-14, maybe earlier, to see if they’ve come to the ledge opening.

Sewickley Bridge, Ohio River:

This successful nest has four young and two watchful parents.

On 3 June Jeff Cieslak photographed four family members. Two of the “kids” were Upstairs and Downstairs: one on a high beam, the other on a lower one. Or was this an optical illusion?

The Sewickley Bridge youngsters are due to fly soon if they haven’t already.

62nd Street Bridge, Allegheny River:

As mentioned yesterday we didn’t know there were peregrines at the 62nd Street Bridge until Matt Jacob found a pair on the bridge on June 4 & 5.

Read more about this family at: New Pair Found at 62nd Street Bridge.

Tarentum Bridge, Allegheny River:

When Dave Brooke checked on the Tarentum peregrine family on Saturday 6 June the chicks are all brown and ready to fledge.

In just four days their plumage changed a lot as seen in Dave’s 2 June video.

Westinghouse Bridge, Turtle Creek:

We didn’t know that the Westinghouse Bridge nest was successful until Dana Nesiti checked on it in late May and found two chicks. Last week he visited almost every day. His video from 2 June shows one juvenile ledge walking, falling and the flying for the first time.

He was the first sibling to fly, shown in photos at top and below.

Here are the two siblings on 4 June. The one on the left looks darker overall.

The Status Table …

… at the top is a screenshot of the table taken on 7 June 2026. Here’s the up-to-date table if you’re reading this many months later.

When Matt Jacob, co-author of City Steps of Pittsburgh, visited the 62nd Street Bridge on June 4 and 5 to take pictures for a new book about the city’s parks, playgrounds, and trails he found a surprise. A pair of peregrines was flying back and forth over the Allegheny River and stopping at the bridge.

It appears they are nesting somewhere on the bridge.

This isn’t the first time peregrines have nested at 62nd Street but they rarely choose this site. The last successful nest was discovered in early July 2019 when a parent and juvenile peregrine hung out at Tree Pittsburgh below the bridge. Fortunately the structure is beneath the deck so the young don’t fledge into traffic.

Are there chicks at the 62nd Street Bridge? We’ll have to watch and see. Etna Riverfront Park is a good vantage point.

The 62nd Street Bridge is one of three potential peregrine nesting bridges on the Allegheny River that are very rarely used. Sightings of juveniles in this area usually occur in July indicating the parents nested late, perhaps after failure at another site.

And so I wonder … is this where the peregrines from East Liberty Presbyterian steeple ended up after their nest blew away in late March?

p.s. Follow Matt Jacob’s photography on Instagram at @matt_jacob or @pghsteps.