Thanks for the link, gliderpeople -- that's a good article about the work that Elli Jadek is doing, though a sad incident with the falcon fledgling. After watching our three soar around the downtown sky, it's hard not to feel very protective about them, even knowing the discouraging statistics about their survival rates. While on fledge watch, I was desperately afraid that something bad might happen -- and so relieved and happy when nothing did. Yesterday evening, I was downtown and made a point of stopping briefly in the parking lot to look up and search the sky -- I was delighted to catch sight of one of the chicks, one of the males judging by the lack of squawking, fly over the Rogers building and land on one of the louvered areas at the top of the Radisson. His feathers were windblown, but his flying was strong and confident. Trey was sitting on the J of the Richardson Building. Didn't see any sign of the other three, but it was so windy they were likely in some sheltered place, tucked out of the wind.
