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Correct website...

6 June 2025 Please go to the website https://pacificcoastperegrinewatch.org for the most recent update . Follow us there and transfer any “likes” and “comments” to our current page there. Many thanks Bob and Heather

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Scholarship student

Thursday, September 13, 2023 This past week we met with our most recent CalPoly Scholarship student, Eva Moylan. We’d like to introduce her to you. All of your donations made this possible! THANK YOU! Eva Moylan with male American Kestrel Eva told us this bit of information: “I am currently going into my fourth year in Biological Science at Cal Poly and for the past few years I have been part…

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Scholarship recipients...

Monday, May 29, 2023 A while back I contacted our five CalPoly Scholarship students to hear how they were doing. They all replied despite their very busy lives. I’m sure you are curious so I’ll catch you up on two of them.  Waverly Davis wrote that she was about to board a plane for South America in about an hour.  She traveled with her sister for a few weeks in Ecuador and Peru and excitedly…

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New location…

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Falcon Alert...

Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch has experienced a temporary set back due to the absence of Bob Isenberg. I have undergone back surgery and am recuperating doing lots of rehabilitation at Bayside Care Center in Morro Bay, CA. Not to fear the Peregrine Falcons are in good hands with my buddy, Jerry Pyle, who is providing the spotting scopes and information.  The birds are beginning to nest now.…

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Love on a ledge…

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Winter Greetings 2022...

Winter Greetings 2022…

Wishing you Peace and Health in the New Year  We had a very busy birding year with Bob going daily to Morro Rock showing hundreds of visitors the Peregrine Falcons, a Burrowing Owl and many other birds. Heather went out eBirding keeping Checklists for Cornell most days and is up to 277 species in the San Luis Obispo County so far. She also went on a Pelagic Trip. Photos from Top Left down.…

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Over the dunes with Heather…

Over the dunes with Heather…

7 June 2022 Where do your donations go? Read on… One of our recipients of a Pacific Coast Peregrine Watch scholarship, Nicole Durtschi, is now a Biologist with the California State Parks and was willing to show me around the protected Least Tern nesting sites.  Photo by Heather O’Connor We hopped into a CA State Park 4×4 pick-up truck to visit the area that had experienced habitat loss due to…

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Time with a juvenile...

Time with a juvenile…

2 June 2022 Petra and Jack Clayton have contributed another peregrine falcon video for you to watch. They have been posting videos on http://www.flickr.com for years to show the activity of so many different species of birds. Maybe you’d like to follow them. One of the reasons we show you what is going on at Morro Rock is to support our efforts to raise money to give to a CalPoly Wildlife…

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South side chicks airborne…

South side chicks airborne…

1 June 2022 The young peregrines, two of them, on the South side fledged yesterday, May 31. I was not there to see this, but my cronies were there. Jack and Petra Clayton, Gordon Robb, Jerry Pyle.  Fledgling Photo by Jack and Petra Clayton But today I was there at 7:30 AM.  Not one bird, adult or chick, would show up for two hours. After glassing the Rock, which seemed like forever, I found a…

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Flying attemps...

Flying attemps…

10 May 2022 I mentioned in the last post that the north side peregrine chicks were flying well. Landings are a little shaky, but soon, they will have them down pat! These are the photos taken of the first attempts. Photos by Steve Acheff Thinking about flying is important. Photos by Steve Acheff Chicks are building muscle strength before the first flights. Photos by Steve Acheff Flying…

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White puffball chicks…

18 May 2022 The north side peregrine chicks are flying well now, traversing the Rock face from north to south. Landings are a little shaky, but in a week or two, they will have them down pat! Today at 9:15AM, we got our first glimpse the two white puffball chicks on the south side of Morro Rock. They appear to be about 23 to 24 days old. They stood at the mouth of the “diving board” eyrie for a…

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Piedras Blancas photos...

Piedras Blancas photos…

10 May 2022 Just wanted to share with you some of the photos that have been sent to us recently. Many visitors and photographers enjoy these falcons as much as we do! There are two chicks at this Piedras Blancas site. It is in a large offshore rock that has been a nest site for many years. Peregrine falcon to the upper left, two downy chicks to the upper middle right in the nest site Photo by…

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Better late than never…

Better late than never…

22 April 2022, EARTH DAY This morning on the south side of Morro Rock, the male landed in a very small hole, one that they stash prey into. As he left the hole, a flutter of feathers trailed him out with his powerful wingbeat. He entered the eyrie twenty yards away with the prey. As he entered, the female came out of the eyrie. After perching a few times at different sites for a few minutes at…

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Scholarships……

5 November 2021 We want to give another scholarship! How about you? Make a donation by visiting Bob at Morro Rock, sending us a check (address is at the bottom) or pressing the DONATE button to the right. Our previous CalPoly Scholarship students wholeheartedly want us to give another scholarship too! We have heard from some of our Scholarship students recently and they know what a difference…

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Last to fledge……

Last to fledge……Peregrine falcon chick is now flying at Morro Rock, Morro Bay, CA.

9 June 2021 The south side chick, the only one to this new pair of falcons fledged this morning at 9:40 AM traversing the face of the Rock from left to right in a smooth glide landing on a chalky bluff 300 yards from the nest site. The landing was on a near vertical face with no crashing or tumbling, he stuck the landing! A few more short fifty yard flights ending with the last on the top of a…

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South side debut...

South side debut... The peregrine falcon chicks are an exciting presence in Morro Bay at Morro Rock.

25 May 2021 The south side chick made its debut at the diving board hole at 21 days old. That would be three weeks behind the north side chicks.  Peregrine chick on South Side Photo by Gordon Robb On the north side, the three young have been flying for four days. They are 48 days old. It looks like we have two females and one male.  A lot of visitors are showing up to view the north side…