The action has slowed from snail's pace. The potential fledgling is not fledging despite the fact that she is over 50 days at this point. This is a web cam and the posts from Gen Nature need to be moved here.  The Richmond Times has another great article today. My name for the bird is the Pokey Little Peregrine.  This may be de ja vu for Harley.

The highlight of my day was seeing four of the fledglings.  One adult was watching over the three that made it to the World Church Offices next to Riverside Church.  And One almost fledgling was still in the scrape.









And one really clueless pigeon just below the adult and the scrape:

Saw an adult on Two New York Plaza.



I thought I heard kakking.  Saw pigeons really disturbed around Peregrine Square (Bowling Green Park) four blocks to the west of Water St and right by Battery Park.  At first I thought they were three of the fledglings.  I get excited.

This year's excitement is about a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10.  I am 75% sure I saw both Libby (right) and Hudson (left) on the ledge on 10 Exchange Place.  An adult did deliver food and ate it or the kids took over when I wasn't looking.  No other birds in sight.  They just looked back at me and the buildings.

I am still keeping my fingers crossed and praying to Jack, the angel, that these are really the fledglings.  I am 100% sure one is.

CPF won't be able to find bands big enough to fit around those fat legs.

She went on government property behind a locked fence

I have no news about Hope.  All I know is the transmitter stopped working around the day she fledged.  My friends saw her fly over the FDR toward the heliport which is on the east river.  They never saw her after that.  And the few times I went down I couldn't stay long because of various celebrations and no parking.  I only saw one, possibly two heads on One NY Plaza and our little girl was still in the scrape that time.

Even though the other posts are over 6 months old on this thread, I thought you might like an update on the 2011 fledglings.  Bruce Yolton has great pictures of FIVE!  I was told there were four eyases a couple of weeks ago.

Enjoy!

http://urbanhawks.blogs.com/urban_hawks/2011/06/five-at-riverside.html

Not sure how this is going to post, but Mike got a picture of Legs in his barn in West Virginia.   Here is the report and link:

Here's Legs!! (Kim Steininger was kind enough to forward the pic to me)

http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=719&start=340
(photo credit: Three Rivers Avian Center, 06-16-11)

I double-checked his leg band with some pics Kathy Clark forwarded from Tri-State last week, and it's definately him! Per the update Kim got, Legs is in a flight barn with 3 other NJ chicks from a Delaware River bridge site. Not sure when he will be transferred to the hack box, probably not too long I would guess.

Way to go Legs!!! 

Those watchers in Wilmington are VERY upset that the two girls were taken to West Virginia to be hacked. But they went with our Jersey City boy, Legs.  One girl is due to fly today in WV I think.  Just FYI, the female parent is a first time mommy.  And they think the male may be a first time daddy?  Not sure of my facts here.

Kim Steininger has fabulous pictures of the birds.  Both adults were doting parents and the feeling is they could have cared for all four remaining young.

I am connected to Richmond and the biologist there.  I even have my hat to prove it.  I went down a couple of years ago when there were no falcons to watch in Rochester.  It took about the same amount of driving time.  I figured it was a win win.  They open the pen, the fledglings fly out on cue.  I'm there on the ground watching and clicking away.

Well, Ginger took four hours to even come out of the box and eventually walk out of the pen yesterday.  She has been exploring the expansive ledge around the building and has still not flown.  Ray, the biologist, got tired of watching the eyases and fledglings perish on the streets below.  The ledge is slippery and the young birds .....     Before that, the adults laid eggs on the slanted top of the Dominion building and the owners there were not happy.  So, Ray figured out how to put a dog pen up on the new building and just hoped the adults would feed the kids through the bars which they have done now for a few years.  Then he rigged up a way to open the pen without scaring the birds.  He waits until the birds are 47 - 49 days old so they have more of a chance of flying.

There are a lot of watchers on the buildings and on the ground waiting for this shy fledgling to fledge.

Do you have mom's band number?  Any more word on where she is from?  NJ would have gotten back to you right away.

Not exactly where to post this, but I think it was a State Farm commercial using a peregrine falcon?  Anyone else see it?

I was just going to post that, Joyce.  Leave me alone, Mom.  I will be fine. I won't drink the beer.

Mike reported our first fledge!!  He is pretty sure it is Lady Liberty aka Libby.  Men were up working by the scrape again so he is not sure about Hudson.  Libby was happily bouncing and of course eating on top of 10 Exchange Place which is a block away and another safe building for the fledglings.  She is a very aggressive female.

Seems we have fledglings all over the place.