Just as I arrived on Thursday evening, the fledgling and one of the parents left St. Luke’s and headed back to the Cathedral. I couldn’t relocate the parent, but the found the fledgling eating on a tower on the northeast side of the building.
After eating the fledgling made its way west to what appears to be its nighttime roost. When will this fledgling venture lower down and actually spend time in a tree?
The fledgling spend most of the early evening playing above the emergency room of St. Luke’s Hospital on Tuesday. Unlike Monday, when it was out of sight most of the evening, on Tuesday it put on a great show. The best viewing angle was in front of the Cathedral steps on Amsterdam for most of the evening. The mother kept watch from a nearby railing.
As it did on Monday, it returned to the Cathedral at sunset. When it flies over, the fledgling aims for the dome at the center of the Cathedral, which is an easy target and them moves west.
Tonight, we couldn’t find the fledgling at St. John until close to sunset. It has been on St. Luke’s Hospital’s clock tower, and flew across to the Cathedral. We’ve yet to hear the fledgling cry out, and since it is using the building tops to perch, we don’t get the auditory clues we’d expect to get from robins, jays and mockingbirds. Keeping track of this fledgling is going to be a challenge.
A lot happened in Manhattan this past week:
Broadway Bridge Peregrines: Bonnie Talluto confirms the two eyasses are now fledglings.
Inwood Hill Park: Diane Schenker reports the nest has hatched. She can see at least one eyass, but can’t get a good count yet.
Highbridge Park: Mitchell Nusbaum reports the nest has fledged.
St. John the Divine: The surviving nestling fledged on Friday.
Riverside Park: The pair is sitting on their second clutch.
55 Water Street Peregrines: They’ve all fledged.
Early in the afternoon, the fledgling was impossible to find. One of the parents attempted to grab a young sparrow off a nest in a Cathedral window, but then flew off.
After the weather front went through, I went back to the Cathedral to find the fledgling coming off of a high area of St. Luke’s roof, towards the Cathedral. It misjudged the landing and returned to St. Luke’s. It did this about an hour later, attempting to land on the nest, again it misjudged and returned to St. Luke’s. Nature’s given the fledgling great innate flying skills, but it seems that instinct doesn’t cover landings and this needs to be learned.
I went down to see how the Riverside Pair was doing on Sunday and got to see an exchange between the parents.
