[caption id="attachment_271399" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Female peregrine falcon eating[/caption] Here's a good news story for these COVID-consumed times. For Philadelphia’s birding community, spring means many things, especially the return of migrating birds to famous haunts like Carpenters Woods in Mt. Airy. To Roxborough’s Judy Stepenaskie, spring means the return of a pair of peregrine falcons – famously the world's fastest animal – to the nesting box tucked into the top of the steeple of St. John the Baptist Church, the tallest stone spire in Manayunk’s skyline. As Judy has become the de facto adopted godmother of the peregrines that nest there, following them…

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