When we first got to Kodak building we realized that all the juvies were already out in the gorge (because all the watchers were out on the bridge). On the other side of the bridge two of the juvies were sitting on a building next to each other. Also one juvie was on the brewery and one on the middle smoke stack. While the juvies were doing a few more practice flights Mariah took off and started climbing using a combination of flapping and a lot of riding thermals way up into the sky. Mariah was hard to follow due to a cloud she kept flying in and out of but after gliding for a little while she tucked her wings and dove. About 15 minutes later she returned with a pigeon which she transferred to one of the juvies which then had to fight to keep the prey as another juvie flew in and try to take the pigeon away. Eventually they both dropped the pigeon and as of when we left no one had picked it back up again and none of them seemed to know where the prey was.

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