Thursday, June 18, 2020

One Chick Left

Watching the Columbus Peregrine Falcon YouTube site this afternoon.
The youngest chick is still on the ledge, but I suspect it won't be for long.
It's running up and down the ledge flapping it's wings, hopping up and down. This behavior is building flight muscles and courage to leave the ledge.
I anticipate that it will leave the nest ledge tomorrow or the next day.

There was a large development gap between this bird and the "twins" (that's what I was calling the middle 2 birds because they were very close in size and abilities).

Below are pictures from last Thursday of the youngest bird and one of the twins. You can definitely see a big difference.


Here is a picture from today of the youngest practicing its balancing abilities on one of the lights.



Monday, June 15, 2020

Leaving the Ledge

The young are starting to leave the nest ledge. I received a report that the first fledgling took flight last Thursday morning (June 11th).
As of yesterday there were still 2 young at the site.
Below is a link to the facebook page of the 2 remaining birds yesterday.
Columbus Peregrine Falcons





These are photos that I took last Thursday of the remaining young loafing on the ledge.