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[shep]

FLUFFY PORKERS!
June 16, 2019
Do they have itchy feet to fludge?
30 days old

Flopsy & Mopsy
thats only 2 falcon chicks!  lol   

If they wish they can run around on the offcam playground
They are on the very top of the bridge (we have to take an elevator to get up there). So they would probably jump onto the roadbed first. There is plenty of boat traffic around there, but not really kayakers. It is big water. There is also a fishing pier.

[shep]

KEEPAWAY
June 17, 2019
Mom brot dressed prey and one chick grabbed it,
Chick 2 wanted it too
1 ran and mantled over it
2 got pieces
back n forth lol

OK, Looking at my pics
Pink did the grabbing and ate first (her eye area is pink)
Male got it from her at some point (assuming male)
so both ate

Mom has never seen this before - but has likely participated!   

THEY ARE IN - ATTACK PARENT! - mode!   

[shep]

June 18
Brown feathers popped overnite

Here it moonrise from RRP's Elk River nestbox

[shep]

BANDING DAY
June 19, 2019
Dark green band on BOTH legs
Black over green
B on the green and an 8 on top on one of the kids - male?

Judging by the kids behavior past 2 days
this is the safest day - another day they wouldnt catch em

71/BH
81/BM

[shep]

SCARING DAD!  
These BIG balls of fluff scare dad!

Once they jump down on the grate we wont see them -
they will be offcam

[shep]

2 more
just puffs of fluff left
brown flight feathers are in

The way Male is on edge looking down,
he wont stay up there much longer

Girl is flopped

[shep]

MALE FLEDGES
June 21, 2019

June 21 dawn  Male jumped down
HOLY COW!  He can get back up!
And he goes up & down - that showoff!

Girl 71 BH
Boy 81 /BM

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more
Girl looks soooooo unhappy!

[shep]

June 22, 2019
Male jumps down, flies back up with ease.
I havent seen Girl fly yet

At this point Male is a fledgling

[shep]

June 23, 2019
Girl jumping and flapping all over, back n forth
She seems angry
I suspect she will make the jump today
She's ready

[shep]

June 24, 2019
noon  Girl hasnt fledged yet
Parent was there early

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Girl still there
June 25, 2019
She lays off cam
Yesterday all I could see was the very tip of her tail

Mom brot prey - showed Girl then left - lol
She may not be fed again til she fledges - we'll see what happens.
She's ready, parents know it
I think she'll fledge today

noon
She's fallen - and she cant get up!
hhahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!   
All I see is wingtips flapping 'downstairs'
I actually dont know if she jumped or fell

I havent seen Male - is he off the bridge now?

[shep]

Girl got back up
June 26, 2019   dawn
She does NOT want to leave.
Maybe she doesnt like that grate
Does she look thinner to y 'all?

7.45 am  There she goes down again
flappin back n fo rth
Parent must be forcing her lol 

I do wonder where Male is

[shep]

GIRL GONE - fledged
June 27, 2019
She ate something, looked over the side
went to our right, looked down and left

I dont think she spent the night in the nest
Too bad no cam on grate

8 am  She appeared up in nest, looked around a brief moment and back down

FAREWELL KIDS

[shep]

RICHMOND Va
http://peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewforum.php?f=329
https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/falcon-cam


Richmond Falcon Cam Kicks Off a New Decade
MARCH 3, 2020

2019 a banded male Peregrine Falcon (24/AU), paired with a female that hatched and was banded in Delaware. The same male has been seen on camera over the past several weeks with a female with no leg bands. A stable pair has yet to establish itself at the site and there has been no breeding since 2018.

Although we are heartened by the reappearance of last year?s male, the bond between him and the new female may still be in flux: approximately one week ago, an observer from a partner agency observed three falcons circling over a nearby downtown building. He noted a male giving chase to a female. This suggests that there may still be competition for a breeding spot on the falcon territory.