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Posted: 2:41 PM- A peregrine falcon couple have returned to their downtown Salt Lake City nesting grounds - and they have company.
The pair has hatched four baby peregrines. In a few days, the five-week-old peregrines should be making some of their first harrowing flights in the downtown area.
Bob Walters, who runs the Watchable Wildlife program for the Division of Wildlife Resources, told KUTV he's elated.
"It was bound to happen," he says. "I'm pleased to report that the falcons have returned to the big city to once again dazzle downtown spectators."
Walters says the adult pair is busy raising their offspring in a nest box at the north end of the east face of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.
You can view the falcons at the DWR's peregrine falcon Web cam. The cam is available at http://www.wildlife.utah.gov
