Rochester: Seneca has fledged!

Mr. Z also known as Zephyr, master of flight!














Breaking news: our last juvie has fledged! This morning at 08:00 when Lisa arrived for her fledge watch at the Rochester Kodak Tower Seneca was out of the playpen perched between the Kodak Letters; Way to go little girl! What wonderful news.



Little Seneca
Photo courtesy by Lisa

Lisa reports on Imprint Falcon Watch:

Seneca was still on the column between the “K” and the “O” on the 20th floor. She kept running, and hopping and flapping her wings, trying to get Kaver’s attention.





Both Mariah and Kaver took turns flying around the tower, coaxing their young into flight. Which they did 3 of them, but it was warm so they all settled down.





Kaver brought in food. That woke up some of them. Mariah took off from the tower and attempted to take the food from Kaver. Kaver had other ideas. He kept the food and landed on the southeast corner of the 17th floor. After about a minute of preparation, I saw one of the fledglings come around the tower, walk up to Kaver and snatch the prey. This is why Mariah wants the food. She has better control of which fledglings receive the food. Kaver just gives it over to whichever one takes it. Mariah is the boss!





Next Quest had appeared just below Seneca on the 19th floor, southwest corner. That’s all it took to get Seneca flapping again. As we watched, Seneca took off and headed towards the High Falls Smoke Stack. She was coming in too low, so she turned and headed back to the tower. Seneca attempted to land on top of the peaked metal roof, east of the playpen. We watched as she clung to the edge and flapped, trying to pull herself up to the peak. No such luck. She let go, slid down the metal roof, spread her wings and took flight, again heading for the stacks. Still low, she turned and headed back to the tower, missed a landing on 17 and flew around to the north side of the tower, where we couldn’t see her land. It ain't easy girl, a first flight, but you'll get there!





Quest took off and fly around to the northside in search of her sister. By the time I arrived at the north side, I spotted Seneca sitting up on the 19th floor. Quest was on the 18th floor, top of the Philadelphia Tower. They were very close to each other. It always amazes me when the fledglings seem to support each other.




All photo's are courtesy of Jim Pisello, unless stated otherwise

Now that all eyases are airborne the show can begin!!

Read all reports:

http://www.rfalconcam.com/falconwatch/

Read the great reports of Jim Pisello with all his excellent photo's of the juvies on his Blog Peregrinations:

http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2008/06/mischief-and-mistakes.html