Fledge watch 7-13-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Today started out rainy and humid with a temperature of 72 (F) 22 (C) and clearing up in the afternoon/evening
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We continued monitoring Nettie on the Thomson Reuters building after she was found there last night by Bob from New Hampshire. Donna and I arrived in the hole about 7:15am-Lisa,Carol ,Dana,Eileen,and Larry were there. Ken and Nancy joined us and after they left Paul Hamilton came by. There was a juvie on one of the Widows Walk building chimneys with food that Beauty wanted to take but this child of hers wouldn’t oblige her. After many attempts to take it-flying off and returning, Beauty gave up and went to the base of Mercury.
Joyce joined the watch followed by Brian as we all spent our day in the hole watching over Nettie who seemed to be alert, walking fine and stretching her wings out evenly. The other juvies flitted in and out a little landing on Widows Walk,Reynolds Arcade and Times Square at different times.
The watchers took breaks at different times and when Donna and I returned from our afternoon break Carla was there and later Jeanne, Dana,Lou,Dan and 3 of his friends joined the watch. Donna and I went to check around for other falcons finding Mercury on the east side rail of Mercury the statue.
Just as we were returning Nettie flew from Thomson Reuters-we believe because a couple people went out on the roof for a moment. She ended up on the Democrat & Chronicle building across from Times Square. Beauty flew in and landed on the Times Square building on a small southeast ledge across from Nettie.
Nettie didn’t seem comfortable there so after a few minutes she took off and made a smooth, deliberate but slow fight to the Telesca building roof on the other side of Times Square. Tesh and the boys made an appearance on Widows Walk giving us a view of all 4 juvies at once before they all flew off.
It was another eventful fledge watch as Nettie showed us that she can fly with no issues-making all of us watchers near and far smile! 🙂
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July 13th, 2014 at 11:44 PM
Thank you, MAK, for your report and for your great photos of our sweet Nurse Nettie. She needs a little nursing herself now. I’m glad she flew and I’m hoping she makes a full recovery.
July 14th, 2014 at 12:04 AM
Pat, I’m confident she’ll be just fine like her brother Nor’Easter before her who was also hurting for a few days. 🙂
July 14th, 2014 at 4:27 AM
Phew for Nettie!
July 14th, 2014 at 5:30 AM
You got that right Bobbie! 🙂
July 14th, 2014 at 6:31 AM
So happy to read that Nettie flew! Good girl!
July 14th, 2014 at 7:05 AM
OMG! I am as relieved as everyone else…I even woke up a couple of times thinking about Nettie. Whew!! Another hurdle passed. It is so difficult raising little ones these days.. Yes ! I’m smiling!
July 14th, 2014 at 12:00 PM
Ruth and June, we are ALL smiling about Nettie! 🙂
July 14th, 2014 at 8:38 PM
Nettie’s acting like a grown-up falcon, conserving energy where she can. 😉
July 14th, 2014 at 10:29 PM
And that’s a good thing Alison! 🙂