ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – John Longhenry positions his camera atop a car door. The lens reaching nearly a foot long points toward downtown Rockford’s former news tower.
The birder of roughly three decades awaits the appearance of peregrine falcons residing on the building’s eighth floor ledge.
“You get attached to a bird and realizing they’ll come and go, but not like Louise,” said Longhenry. He references downtown’s feathered matriarch who’s held down her rocky ridge since 2018…