Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia? Or, The Skull of a Pigeon?

On my leisurely walk to Botany Pond and then north barely through Cobb Gate, yesterday, Thursday May 30th, I saw and greeted two longtime exceptionally nice staff of Facilities who I know, who specialize in making from "scratch", things needed that need to be made from metal ... that is, they are a big part of "the sheet metal shop" of the UChicago Facilities Department.

As I do almost continuously, when I have sufficient wi-fi, I was broadcasting "live" on ... Facebook Live, on my own Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/sid.colton . At one point I told the two that my "camera" was running (my smartphone), and was it ok publish this video. They did not have any objection. Therefore you can view the video that includes the conversation summarized here, at https://www.facebook.com/sid.colton/videos/10101793620846270/ ; the conversation starts at about 2 minutes 45 seconds in to this video.

"THE DINNER TABLE OF 2013"

"About six years ago" there was spread out on top of the roof of Edward Levi Hall (then simply called "The Administration Building") in view of our two Facilities staff ... a dinner table displaying THE SKULLS OF THE PIGEONS who once (but no more) resided outside the UofC Bookstore, and inside the UofC main quadrangles.

I suppose the headless remainder of each pigeon must have each have wound up in the stomach of one of the two peregrines?

A woman with some kind of "armor" had brought this pair of peregrine falcons to the University, and presumably placed them on top of the Administration Building, in 2013, as part of a program to populate a number of Chicago-area places, each with a new pair of peregrine falcons. Peregrine are the fastest known animals in the universe, flying at up to 240 miles per hour or more, during their dives.

The two sheet-metal workers happened upon the TABLEAUX OF DEAD PIGEON SKULLS because eggs from the female Peregrine Falcon had been laid by the mother falcon into the drain on the roof of the Ad Building; and the falcon experts had deemed the appropriate prevention for this drain-clogging-by-eggs ... was for the sheet-metal workers TO BUILD A DE-LUXE APARTMENT IN THE SKY for this lucky pair of falcons. The mother peregrine would henceforth, in fact, lay her eggs in the new "apartment". So, while installing their FALCON HOUSE onto the roof of the Ad Building, the two UofC staff SAW THE BANQUET-BUFFET-DINING-ARRAY OF THE NOW-MEATLESS HEADS OF FORMER-UofC PIGEONS!

The pair of peregrines also perched atop Pick Hall. The two sheet-metal staff built and installed an identical peregrine-egg-laying house on top of Pick Hall. Rockefeller Chapel's tower's ledges also were a favorite visiting spot for the peregrines. No house was needed or made at Rockefeller for the peregrines.

It is possible these peregrine falcons (or their offspring) are the falcons now apparently living atop Jackson Towers, at 56th & Everett. I am looking into that possibility, now.

Oh, to be a peregrine falcon ... to be able to kill and eat almost any kind of smaller animal your heart desires! To have people make deluxe bird houses for you!

When is the TV documentary on Hyde Park's peregrines going to appear? Any volunteer filmmakers out there now, reading this?