Anxious egg watchers have their eyes on the peregrine falcon nest on the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to see when the first egg will be arrive.

The mild winter has resulted in early egg laying by one of the offspring fledged at the Rachel Carson Building now living in Wilmington, Delaware.  She laid her first egg on February 26.

You can put in your own vote for when the first egg will be laid by taking the PA Falcon Cam Twitter Poll.

Appropriately, the Rachel Carson Building, headquarters for DEP and DCNR, is name for Pennsylvania’s own Rachel Carson, the woman often credited with starting the modern environmental movement with her research and writing about pesticides in her landmark Silent Spring book.

She was born in Springdale, Allegheny County on May 27, 1907 and died in 1964.  Her life and legacy as a woman in science is celebrated at the Rachel Carson Homestead.

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