Rare birds nesting at Three Mile Island

HARRISBURG - State wildlife officials say Three Mile Island is now the only known site in Pennsylvania where bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and osprey are nesting near one another.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission said Friday that a pair of bald eagles had joined the others on the Susquehanna River when they built a nest in the spring.

Peregrine falcons are considered endangered in Pennsylvania, and bald eagles and the osprey are considered threatened.

Exelon, which owns the island's nuclear power plant, site of a 1979 partial meltdown, says the falcons are nesting on the reactor building, the ospreys atop a meteorological tower, and the eagles in a tree. - AP