Rock City is continuing its partnership with Wings to Soar in an ongoing peregrine falcon restoration project. Two brother peregrines, named Lewis and Clark by Rock City’s social media followers, arrived at Rock City on May 27 and were placed in a hack box to prepare for release into the wild. Lewis flew at 6:17 a.m. on June 13 and Clark took flight closely behind him at 6:20 a.m. These brother birds, being from the same clutch, were from a breeder in Hastings, Mn.
“We are so excited to be partnering once again with Wings to Soar for this year’s peregrine falcon release from Rock City’s Lover’s Leap area,” said Jeff Raabe, director of operations for See Rock City, Inc.
“There is much hope that through our ongoing program this beautiful raptor species will once again be repopulated in the Chattanooga and North Georgia area after years of extinction here.”
Wings to Soar has led the falcon program at Rock City since 2006, when the first peregrines Garnet and Frieda were released (named after Rock City’s founders). Since then, eight other peregrines have flown from the hacking site, most of the names chosen by Rock City’s Facebook followers: Rocky, Ted, Zenith, Chatty, Lookout, Fourscore, Orville and Wilbur.
John and Dale Stokes with Wings to Soar also host Rock City Raptors Birds of Prey Shows every Friday through Sunday during the summer through Labor Day and daily the week of July Fourth. Find out more at
www.seerockcity.com/birds.