Field Notes Doug Bell Humboldt County, Phelps Ranch Guerreville Peregrine Eyrie - update: April 28 to May 4, 1988 On May 28th Matt Nixson headed down to Diablo Canyon (SLO county) to place 2 two-week old chicks in the eyrie. As it turned out, the peregrines had long abandoned this site. The dummy eggs were cold, so they turned around and headed for Guerneville to put these two chicks in. Drove through the night, met Todd who brought Matt in to the Ranch. They arrived at Goat Rock in the early morning. Matt got the ropes set up, then climbed down. The female was scared off the ledge & put up a huge defense - all by herself. Male nowhere in sight. Matt had trouble with the ropes, couldn't make it to the ledge, had to return to top, straighten things out & go back down. Finally succeeded in placing chicks in eyrie, but only after keeping the female agitated for a couple hours, alone. After that, Matt watched the cliff from afar - the male showed up, flew to ledge, showed interest in young. He apparently obtained food twice for the female, but she was not interested in feeding the chicks. In fact, she avoided the ledge, maybe only sat on it once. After several hours, Matt climbed in, took the young back out, replaced with dummy eggs. The two chicks went to the eyrie at Blassadero, Napa, the next day, and were accepted right off. On May 4, Matt brought a younger (1 week) hybrid falcon chick to Goat Rock and placed it in the nest ledge, but the falcons had not been around the rock much, so he had to take it back out.