UT / Salt Lake City - 2008-2013

[kittenface]

allikat
You are so right I have fallen for these 2 little cuties

[allikat]

 

Look at me...how can you NOT fall in love with me...aren't I just so cute!

[Alison]

I'm glad the little male was okay after his collision with a windshield. I hope he is doing well today.

His sister was asleep in the nest box earlier:



When she woke up, she perched on the edge of the nest box, somewhat unsteadily, and flapped her wings:

   

The male chick after he was rescued; he doesn't look too pleased.

[carly]

Oh he's so cute!!!  Glad he's okay and happy to hear they are out for watch now.  They are right about calling it 'heck week', you really do go through heck and back worrying for them.

[kittenface]

'heck Week' begins as baby falcon wings it

Salt Lake City » Fledgling rescued after failed flight. http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12717742

 

[jadoo]

...well it's nice that we got some info on the fledgling, and a relief that he seems to be ok!  It does look like a nice open launch pad for the falcon chicks from their nest here - perhaps a touch less dangerous than the Radisson site, with portage ave right there...

[kittenface]

Heres a pic from jethat more picture to come

jethat wrote:
I was down there again. Spent a hour or 2 watching the fledgling on top of the Joesph Smith building. Didn't see the parents come see him but that doesn't mean they didn't. He looked like he was staying put for the night. I took some pictures of him and will post them later. We could hear them calling not sure witch one. There really not far aprart he's just on the other side of that wing of the building. I'm sure he will be giving it another shot in the morning. I wont be able to get down there until at least tomorrow night again.


 

[Alison]

I hope the little one who fledged is doing okay. Late last night I could only see one in the nest box, but the other one may just have been out of cam view.

 

[kittenface]

UPDATE

From jethat at Hancock
I just got back. I talked to some people on the ground and they told me he crash landed on or near the old church office building that's the building you can see in the web cam. He was uninjured and they caught him and took him up to the top of the Joseph Smith building and when I was there he hadn't made another attempt. He is fine though and will soon try it again but they said it might be a day or even 2 before he does it again. There are 5-6 people with radios on the ground watching them waiting to save them if necessary.I took some pictures although not many and I will post them in a few minutes my camera battery died so I didn't get many but I think I got a couple nice pictures of the nest box and the building. I might run up there again tonight.

[kittenface]

...EXCELLENT find, kittenface;  I haven't seen the fluffy one for about an hour now - hopefully it's just sleeping under the camera - the other one looked like it might be ready to fledge, but the fluffy one - no way!  Any thoughts on whether they'd come back to this nest box after fledging, now that we know what it looks like from the outside?

I really don't have any clue on that with this nest its only first year I've watched it but there is an article I just read.  Bob Walters is the Falcons best friend in Utah     here is the link: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705312767,00.html?pg=1

[jadoo]

...EXCELLENT find, kittenface;  I haven't seen the fluffy one for about an hour now - hopefully it's just sleeping under the camera - the other one looked like it might be ready to fledge, but the fluffy one - no way!  Any thoughts on whether they'd come back to this nest box after fledging, now that we know what it looks like from the outside?

[kittenface]

FOUND SOMEONE WITH A COUPLE PIC OF THE OUTSIDE OF THE NEST
So it does have someplace to go to the side

[carly]

I'm sure the parents know where he is, they always do as they are constantly keeping watch over them even when you can't see them.  Not sure what kind of nest they have but our juvies came back to the nest ledge to visit..it's almost like a rite of passage when they make it back home again... Now ours hang out on the rooftop right above the nest ledge and they do occassionaly come to the nest area but only to harass mom or dad for food..

[jadoo]

...it must have been him - only one chick showing for the last little while, and a parent just showed up, looked around, and took off again, on much of the same trajectory that the fledgeling seemed to take...if he's ok, will he probably return to this nest box for the next while?  I know the winnipeg ones do, but their nest is an open ledge...

[carly]

No I don't watch that cam but if he was ready to go..then he was ready.  They don't wait on the hoomans to show up