By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

The temperature when I started my fledge watch was 59 (F) 15 (C) . When the sun came up it shone brightly

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I checked the cams before leaving for downtown at 4:55am even though it was still dark out. I could see that Rachel was still home at the nest box and I could just make out the shape of Charlotte over on the Wilder chimney where the watchers left her last night. When I  arrived downtown I looked from the Radisson Hotel by Main St. where I could see Charlotte was still on the chimney and Rachel on the well wall flapping her wings as Ontario came flying in to land on the column above the nest box.

He didn’t stay for long and in usual juvie fashion buzzed Charlotte prompting her to take off after him. Beauty joined the fray and then I lost Charlotte down Main St. Beauty went to the heel of Mercury and Ontario went up to the money bag and I went to the hole.  Rachel was still flapping away on the wall.

Ontario took off again and I went in search of Charlotte. Donna informed me that someone had landed on the Crossroads building. I checked to find that it was Ontario and then he flew to the column above the nest box.

Having no luck finding Charlotte I drove over to the Court St. bridge (CSB) to ask Dan what he had seen. He said Charlotte had gone back to the chimney but we couldn’t see her. All of a sudden Rachel fledged, flying north up Exchange Blvd. with Ontario right on her trail. He thumped her a couple times causing her to lose altitude then they both disappeared heading up Main St. out of view. I jumped in my car and headed over. Beauty was on the column above the nest box when I found Rachel on the black exhaust structure on the Wilder roof and I also found Charlotte on the southwest corner of the Wilder roof. Phew!!

I stationed myself in the parking lot next to the Times Square building where I had the best view of the Wilder roof from the ground. I could see the top part of Mercury and the west corner of OCSR from there as well. Carol arrived a little after 6am and went to the hole to watch. Beauty and Dot.ca (DC) were circling the area and Ontario joined them and then flew to the well wall bump as reported by Carol and also Larry who was on the CSB with Dan. He also said DC flew from the Powers building  to the northeast wing ring of TSB. Charlotte headed toward the Wilder fire escape ladder when Rachel surfaced to join her sister.

Next up, Ontario flew over the girls and landed on the Wilder chimney. Charlotte went to the southwest corner followed by Rachel who then got busy feet and started walking the roof ledge on the west side of Wilder.

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I spotted Beauty on the west corner top I-beam of OCSR as Ontario buzzed by her. Larry reported that Ontario was on the tip top of OCSR.

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Larry and Carol reported a series of events in which Ontario flew with the Beautyful one and DC with all 3 landing and taking off from various spots on TSB. I kept an eye on the girls since their brother is doing so well. KathyO joined the watch around 7am and I stretched my legs and walked to the front of Times Square looking for prey parts on the ground. I only found a partial wing from what looked like a pigeon or Mourning Dove and lots of poop on the sidewalk as I was standing at the front entrance of the building which is directly below the nest box area.

Meanwhile, the girls got busy walking around on the edge of the Wilder roof. I met Judy, who works in the TSB and watches the livestream when she can.

DC flew in and landed on the Wilder ladder so the girls went screaming over there. He promptly took off as it was too much noise for him. Teehee! So they went back to the corner to hang out and preen for a bit.

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The girls eventually made their way to the southeast end of Wilder near the stove pipe out of my view so I went over to the hole and joined Carol and Kathy. Joyce showed up at this time as well.

The girls watched as their busy brother flew over on his way to the Crossroads building. All was quiet when I ended my watch at 8:45am.

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It was kind of hectic at the start of today’s fledge watch but I was smiling the whole time as all 3 downtown Rochester Peregrine Falcon juvies have now successfully fledged! 🙂

Click on the links below to see today’s videos

https://youtu.be/3m8j5-2QCag

https://youtu.be/WNZ0C3OAAQg

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