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As you’ve read by now, the fledglings have made it out to the gorge. I’ve published some pictures from yesterday morning and afternoon here:
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/07/finally-fledglings-find-gorge.html
Jim
Oh, happy day! The fledglings have made their way to the gorge! Watch out wild turkeys, ground hogs, great blue herons and everything else that moves. You are all fair game!
Lots of Watchers gathered on the pedestrian bridge to welcome the young Falcons. Just wait until you see the pictures everyone took. It may take awhile, but we’ll all post them when we can.
Happy Fourth of July everyone!
Carol P.
We spotted all five fledglings tonight. Four of them– Seneca, Zephyr, Susan B and Diamante, spent most of the evening on the BeeBee Station. Quest stayed on Kodak’s building 16, south of the tower. Zephyr made a nice flight chasing Mariah northward over the gorge, and it looked like most, if not all, had dinner. Seneca and Zephyr in particular ate their fill of a very fat pigeon, with feathers flying everywhere.
The low sun in the west made for some nice silhouettes of the falcons, but it wasn’t good for photography. I’ll be out again tomorrow morning. It was the opinion of the assembled watchers that the fledglings are ready to begin their stint in the gorge, so I’m hopeful that I’ll have some pictures to share tomorrow.
Jim
Another quick update. Watching from the pedestrian bridge, we saw the fledglings flying high over the city of Rochester. They’re doing great!
Lou and I decided to take a quick trip downtown for a closer look. We saw Mariah flying above Xerox. She headed northeast, but quickly returned. That caused the 3 fledglings that had been on top of Xerox to take flight. We had 3 fledglings and Mariah playing on the air currents high above us.
After awhile, the three fledglings settled on the north (shady) side of Midtown Plaza (soon to be gone) to escape the heat.
No sightings of Kaver or the other two fledglings. I was only able to positively ID one of the fledglings on Midtown, Seneca.
Early this morning (7/3) around 6:30 a.m. the cameras caught both Mariah and Kaver in the nest box, bowing to each other. 🙂
Carol P.
Only Seneca was apparent on the Kodak building when we arrived at 6 PM. Checked out local roof tops, etc, but only found a kestrel. So, we watched the 2 fawns, 3 turkeys, beaver, and kestrel while waiting for the falcons to reappear. At about 7 PM, the fledglings became very vocal and started flying around as dad came with food. He is fast! I saw him fly off the Kodak building and a few seconds later land again, having caught a bird that I didn’t even see. We saw everyone except Quest … don’t know where she was hiding.
Plenty of flying from all the fledglings today. I’ve posted pictures and a recap here:
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/07/shunning-gorge-fledglings-keep-flying.html
Jim
No pictures to share at this time, but I just wanted to let everyone know that all five fledglings have returned to the Kodak Tower. Lots of flying by all five. I’m sure pictures will be shared soon. 😉
We actually saw Diamante come off of the tower and chase a moth. Incredible flying!!!
Carol P.
We arrived shortly before 6pm and met up with Kapi at Falcon Watch HQ. Talked to Joyce on the bridge. Not much action for a while. No falcons to be seen. Joni pointed out the nest box to some interested passerbys.
Jon walked to bridge and saw 2 Great Blue Herons, but no Falcons.
At 7:30 Joyce and KC arrived. She reported seeing Kaver by the southwest corner of the Xerox Tower. No other falcons still.
7:45 out to the bridge with Kapi and Joyce. Spotted 2 juvies coming north from downtown playing tag. They came in around Bru building and Zephyres antenas, landing there. A third juvie must have been hiding out there, popped up and they continued to play more tag. Then they flew over by the antenna on Kodak Building 9. It appeared they may have had a stash and may have been eating.
Kapi and Joyce joined us at the corner of State and Platt. By 8:15 3 juvies on ledge of kodak office. SusanB on 17th floor SE corner. Zephyre on 19th floor SE corner. Another Juvie on 19th Floor by dolphins, tucked in close, couldnt see bands. A fourth Juvie flew in at 8:25 landing on kodak building NE of tower(i think building 19) Short time later that juvie flew around Tower and onto 17 floor east ledge just feet from SusanB.
Joni and I called it a night at 8:50.
Here are a couple of videos from this weekend. All the young fledglings are doing well. They have moved to Downtown Rochester. We hope that they will return to the Genesee River Gorge. No sign on needed for either video snippet.
The first one is a game of talon tag by two of the young fledglings. I believe it is Quest and Zephyr.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=171aim5l.79ii8uel&x=0&y=g3oegl&localeid=en_US
or tiny url:
The 2nd video is what Mariah and Kaver hear when the fledglings are hungry. They’re ALWAYS hungry!
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=171aim5l.1fm03oel&x=0&y=-w6dghw&localeid=en_US
or tiny url:
Enjoy!
Carol P.
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