I'm not quite sure where to post this. It would seem that Terminator has returned to Grand Forks.
From an article in the Grand Forks Herald this week:
Peregrine lands at 'Smiley'
A banded peregrine falcon showed up Monday at the Smiley water tower in Grand Forks, suggesting a pair of the birds that nested on the tower last year is planning another go-round this year.
Tim Driscoll, a UND professor and local birding enthusiast, said he'd been looking for peregrines on the tower the past two weeks. He saw a lone peregrine about 10 a.m. Monday and reported the sighting on the Grand Cities Bird Club's e-mail list.
Driscoll, who returned for another look at the peregrine Monday afternoon, said he's almost positive the bird is "Terminator," the female that nested last summer on the Smiley tower.
"It sounds goofy, but I can almost recognize her from last year," he said.
Driscoll said the peregrine is hanging out in a nest box installed on the tower in 2005. A dark-colored band on one leg is consistent with the band Terminator received last year in Grand Forks, Driscoll said, but he hasn't yet been able to read the band number for a positive ID.
The hope, he said, is that "Bear," the male that mated with her last year, won't be far behind. Peregrines will choose the same mate each year, if possible, Driscoll said, but they don't migrate together either to or from their wintering grounds in South America.
Bear and Terminator made news last summer in Grand Forks when they nested on the tower. The birds were the first peregrines to nest in Grand Forks, producing four eggs and successfully fledging a baby. Dubbed "Ozzie" by local birders, the young peregrine was just learning to fly when it flew into an electric wire in mid-July and died.