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PA / Harrisburg - Rachel Carson Building - 2008-21
Linder:
Blue Boy has fledged. His first attempt was pretty sloppy and he bounced off a few buildings and ended up on the roof of an auditorium. He was rescued and checked over and put on the roof of the Rachel Carson Bldg. He flew from the roof and ended up on 333 a bldg which is across from the nest ledge. So all is well with him. Red Boy has not gone yet but he may do so later. There is also news that an u/k female has been in the area and at the nest ledge.
RCF:
Here's a link to pics of the rescued chick.
http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?p=191574#p191574
Linder:
News from the site re accidental fledge:
5/25/2012 :: Update From the Ledge
Yesterday, just after 6AM, the red-banded eyas was swept off the ledge by a gust of wind as he flapped his wings. He was rescued from a nearby ally and returned to the ledge. At this age the eyases aren't quite ready to fly but they have the ability to make clumsy, relatively light landings. Volunteers are watching the young birds all day long from this point until they fledge and successfully return to the ledge. The adult male is doing a great job providing for the eyases on his own as there is still no sign of the adult female. The eyases are very mobile on the ledge now and are sometimes completely out of camera view. They're spending time on a small ledge opposite the radius column behind the scrape.
SusanE:
Thank you for that opinion, TPC. Agreed that it would be perfect if NG would/could have been found to discover the cause of her condition. There are several locals who searched several days for hours at a time in alleys and on top of garage roofs with binoculars, even asking building maintenance to check roof tops. Nothing. Unfortunately.
The Peregrine Chick:
Had a look at NG's video and given how much she was labouring my initial thought was that it must be something not infectious or rather transmittable (bacterial, viral, fungal or whatever) because for an adult to be in that kind of distress, I would have expected that the chicks wouldn't have lasted that long had they been similarly infected. I didn't see anything that looked like frounce, but of course there wasn't much chance to see anything. It did look like water blood on her breast feathers, which could have meant she was in a fight and what we watched in the video was a wet bird with blood on her breast trying to expell a pellet (that open-close mouth behaviour is reminiscent of the process of expelling a pellet. If she'd been injured on the breast, it could have been painful or less than efficient and hence it looked more laboured. Or I thought it might have been a reaction to something she ate, that her body was trying to fight it and that is "blood" on her breast might not have been blood but rather vomit so to speak. Or perhaps something she ate was sharp enough to pierce her esophagus or crop or something similar preventing her from being able to expell anything. That would definitely be a problem for a raptor.
I don't know, and I haven't heard anything not already posted here, so that was just my impression when I watched the video. I do hope they find NG - alive so perhaps she can be helped, dead if she can't, because this behaviour would be something I would want to know the answer to, in case it is something being used in the environment or just an accident or if it is an infection/parasite/fungus of some sort.
Just my two cents.
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