OH / Columbus - Rhodes Tower - 2008-16

[Alison]

According to another site (Cleveland), Apollo is the one who fledged this morning. He was seen on the Huntington Bank around 10:30 a.m.

At 5 p.m. there was a fledgling on the Key Bank. I don't know if this is Apollo or a second fledgling.

[allikat]

Here we go....the excitement of watching the juvies fledge and have our hearts stop!

[Pam]

I'm pretty sure I just saw one of the nestlings become a fledgling - right off the edge!  Hope he landed safely~!

[Pam]

Yeah, they get pretty feisty about that food these days!

[maggieblue]

If you are squeamish don't tune in to the Columbus ledge at the moment, one juvie ripping apart prey right in front of the webcam, and then other juvies trying to steal it. Who knows what you might see here.

[allikat]

Scout and Orville have certainly raised four absolutely beautiful falcons!!

[maggieblue]

A very beautiful view of the Colombus 4 out on the ledge tonight.  Ms Jet is front and centre.   

[maggieblue]

One of Scout and Orville's kids is out on a wet ledge, flapping, flapping, flapping, going to edge looking over, head bobbing and running up and down the ledge.  The other three are having a snooze in the nice dry nestbox with Scout standing guard above.

[carly]

Lol...yes the girls will always steal from their meek little brothers.  Good for Scout making sure her little guy is fed, gotta watch those greedy females  

[Elaine L]

Oh, o.k., that is all good to know.  What a fiesty bunch they are!  Except, of course, for what I now know is the male.  I gather, then, that the one who was sleeping in the nestbox was also one of the female chicks, and I missed her coming out to grab at the food once she realized what was going on.

[maggieblue]

Mom is just on the ledge now feeding one of the chicks.  One of the other chicks came running down the ledge as fast as his legs could carry him, and stole the food, but mom grabbed it back and continued to feed the one chick.  The other one hung around and tried to get in on the meal, but mom would not feed him anything; I don't know why - I guess she has her reasons.

I saw a good part of that too.  The really agressive chick was Jet (posed for the ledgecam).  That was quiet a wild time.  At one point Jet had managed to steal part of the meal and was eating it in front of the ledgecam while Scout was feeding the other one.  Jet decided to have another go at stealing the whole dinner, ran over, grabbed it from Scout and started eating.  Scout then jumped up in front of the ledgecam and started eating the leg Jet left behind.  After a minute Jet noticed and ran back up to claim it.  Scout jumped back down and started feeding the other one.  Jet runs back screaming and trying to pull food out of Scout's beak.  Scout flies off and Jet is still screaming at her.  In the meantime the one Scout was trying to feed just sat quietly through it all.  My guess as to what was going on here is that Scout was trying to make sure that Apollo,the only male got something to eat.  His three sisters have been incredibly aggressive  when food arrives.

[Elaine L]

Mom is just on the ledge now feeding one of the chicks.  One of the other chicks came running down the ledge as fast as his legs could carry him, and stole the food, but mom grabbed it back and continued to feed the one chick.  The other one hung around and tried to get in on the meal, but mom would not feed him anything; I don't know why - I guess she has her reasons.

[allikat]

They are all so beautiful!!!   

[Pam]

One of them spent much of the day parked right in front of the camera - it is fabulous to watch these four running up and down that (fabulous) ledge - wish ours had such a spot to fledge from!!

[maggieblue]

Lots of activity on the Columbus ledge this morning.  Scout was feeding the four when something going by really caught their attention, four heads moving in unison.  Then Orville landed in front of the ledgecam with a bird that was almost as big as he is.