The first peregrine falcon egg at one of Wisconsin Public Service’s Power Plants has been laid.
Parents Sheldon and an unbanded female falcon welcomed their first egg of the nesting season on Monday (May 6th) night in Rothschild.
Sheldon is nesting at the Weston Power Plant for the ninth straight year, while the unbanded female falcon is spending her first ear inside one of the nest boxes placed on the roofs of one of several power plants in the state.
The birds will take turns incubating the egg during the next few weeks.
More eggs also may arrive in the coming days. If everything goes well, the eggs in the Weston Power Plant nest box could begin hatching in about a month.
Falcon fans can ‘squawk the vote’ to name each of the WPS and We Energies peregrine falcon chicks after their favorite Wisconsin Olympic medalists.
Voting can be done at www.monkey.com/r/squawkthvote.
A total of 444 chicks have been born at WPS, and We Energies power plants in Wisconsin and Michigan since the program began in 1992.
