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OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16
jadoo:
..i've been keeping an eye on the nest box cam here, and Spirit has been in the nest box most of the day, occassionally calling, but not doing much else...I'm very much aftraid she might be ill, or injured(?) from her unsuccessful first flight...anybody else been watching her?
birdcamfan:
I feel sick seeing this. I'm sure it happens more often than we realize. Lots of young birds don't make it through the first year. It's just hard to actually watch this and know what the result was.
jadoo:
...i expect that with a chick with no experience on a windy day, one good gust could have banged her back against the building and stunned her - that could have caused the 'no flapping', i guess...
bcbird:
That was hard to watch. It looked like a gust just lifted her off, and down she went.
Linder:
There is a video on the BCAW forum that Queenie of the Hancock forum took of Swoop's fall. An obvious slip from the ledge when she started to run toward the nest box. The link is below and the post is the third one down on the page.
http://www.peregrinefalcon-bcaw.net/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=622&start=300
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