When I arrived at 8 AM, Jeanne who had been on watch from 5:45 to 8 showed me where the falcons were. Kaver was on the top of the middle stack, Mariah perched and a juvie walking on the 17th floor ledge, and two juvies on Building 10, north of the tower. I was unable to spot any bands on the juvies to identify individuals. Around 8:20, Mariah moved to Building 10.
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When I arrived, two adults were on the stacks and three juvies were on Kodak tower on the 11th floor. One had one window sill to herself and two were together a bit further down on the same window sill. An adult then went onto kodak.A few minutes later, three juvies flew to building 10 which is next to the Kodak tower. One was on the left hand side, one on the peak and the third was on the antenna of that building. Dan S. said one had been fed earlier this morning. He had arrived at 5. Mariah went to the lilies and was looking all around- definitely a hunt mode with Kaver on the center stack catwalk.

About 6:25. there was a pigeon chase with Mariah in hot pursuit. Two juveniles went after Mariah in high hopes of getting food. No luck so they returned to their positions. There was a LOT of kakking going on.
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Sorry for the late posting. The highlight of last night were all 4 fledglings made several flights during this time. At one point they all flew from the stacks onto a ledge of the Kodak building lining up for what became a perfect photo opportunity. For the most part the landings were smooth but they are still learning how to do it softly.

Around 8:30 pm it did get somewhat exciting. Two of the fledglings were sitting on the north stack when a falcon appeared overheard. At first, several watchers commented that it was Mariah, who had left some time before this headed towards the gorge, trying to get the fledglings to fly again. After several drives towards them it became apparent that, first it wasn’t friendly, and second it was smaller than the fledglings. It was determine it was a Kestrel not being very nice to the young falcons. Immediately, Kaver who was watching them from the Kodak building came to the rescue of his offspring. He drove the Kestrel off with an attach of his own and as a last act of defiance the Kestrel trailed Kaver back to the Kodak building.
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I wasn’t the Official Watcher for this time, but since there wasn’t one, here’s what we saw.

There wasn’t very much activity during the hot afternoon. At first we were only able to spot three of the fledglings. All were on the tower, resting. The watchers took turns walking around the tower, trying to spot the missing bird. Finally, after a couple of hours, we found the missing Falcon. It was Linn. She had decided it was a nice time to lay flat on the 16th floor ledge of the Kodak Tower. Now she was awake and it was time to join her sisters.

Linn flew out and landed very nicely next to Ananta and Grace who were on top of the middle smoke stack just east of the tower. Sacajawea was on the tower just above Mariah, and Kaver was sitting up on the playpen railing, near the nest box.
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Here’s an overview of Saturday evening and Sunday morning’s fledging activity, including copious pictures (of course!):

I got there at noon and joined Brian, Marcia, Dan,Mike, Chris and Sue.Kaver was doing a bit of flying trying to get the GALS started. Mariah was on the 11th floor. Brian and Marcia were showing the “new watchers” where they all were.

12:25 two juvies flew off the tower and Mariah joined in. They flew around the tower then took a rest.

12:35 another flight circling the tower. Grace made a great landing on the play pen rail. Mariah took flight over Frontier Field.

1:00 two juvies took flight played a short game of talon tag then landed on the 16th floor.

1:10 Kaver did some flying with one of the GALS. He wanted to sit on the lilies and she chased him off twice….poor Kaver…no rest.

2:00 All quiet at the tower. Carol P and Kelly came back to watch
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2:20 Mariah again took flight trying to get the flying again. There was a lot of Kak…Kak…Kakking but the GALS stayed put.

3:00 My watch was over. Leaving them all in good hands of fellow watchers. As I drove past the watchers I called out, “whatja looking at”…LOL

Marcia was taking pictures…hope she posts what we saw.

ginha

I stopped down this morning for a couple of hours. I did get a series of shots of Sacajawea flying though. Initially, I had thought this was Ananta because the band looked silver in my camera viewfinder, however,
after downloading the pis on my PC, I saw that the band was yellow.

Here are the pics. Just wanted to share…

Lou

This morningÂ’s fledgling started at 6:00 a.m. with an update from Dan, he started watching at 5:00 a.m. Dan reported that Linn was still on the lower window ledge when he arrived. Just before 6:00 she flew over the Kodak visitor parking lot and landed on the High Falls Office building. Then she proceeded to land nicely on a rusty pipe on the BeeBee Station, before flying to building 10, north of Kodak Tower. Dan reported that two fledglings had already been fed, but Mariah made them work for there food. Holding the prey just out of their reach until then had flown adequately for her to let them eat.

When I arrived at 6:00 a.m. we could see two fledglings on the northeast corner of building 10 and one at the peak of the roof of building 10. Soon Kathy O. arrived and reported that there were actually three fledglings on the northeast corner. About 15 minutes later Mariah flew right past the four fledglings with prey clutched in her talons. Sacajawea wasted no time in following mom to the south side of Kodak tower. She is rewarded with the prey Mariah was carrying. Sacajawea spent almost a half hour eating breakfast with some Kakking in between. Apparently she was upset at having to clean her own prey. At one point she had feathers stuck in her beak.
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Unofficial Fledge Watch Report – Saturday June 23 1-5 p.m.

Having received a call about some problems with Linn’s first flights, I took the 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Fledge Watch. Upon arriving I was updated on the situation. Linn was on a window ledge on Kodak Tower about 3-4 floors off the ground– a higher level than the patio area (ground level) she had been on after an unsuccessful flight toward the smokestack and back to Kodak Tower. It was also thought that one fledgling, possibly Sacajawea had gone down the center smokestack. The other two fledglings– later identified as Grace and Ananta– were at the top of the center smokestack.

Early during the watch Mariah and Kaver signaled an intruder alert and where off to vanquish a Red-Tailed Hawk that made the mistake of entering the “no fly zone” around Kodak Tower. Eventually the two fledglings on top of the center stack took off. Grace flew to the 16th floor on the south side of Kodak Tower. Ananta flew around to the north side, apparently landing on the roof of a lower building. Two other watchers, Brian and Kevin, headed to the north side to look for her. Meanwhile, Linn remained on the ledge of the lower window. Mariah was perched on the southeast corner of the 13th floor and Kaver was perched near the main camera. Sacajawea was still missing in action.
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Here are some pictures to support the official report of Lynn’s fledge flight this morning. She landed on the ground after some rather typical, clumsy landing attempts. Having a juvie on the ground is always a concern to the watchers. But she was just fine.

Lou