The three youngsters spent the early afternoon on the church tower, often watched over by their father. In the late afternoon, their mother caught a pigeon and cleaned it on top of a building on the southwest corner of Broadway and 85th Street. Two of the fledglings got very excited and flew around the mother, and one landed on a building at 86th and Broadway.

After the pigeon was cleaned the mother placed it on top of 530 West End Avenue, and the two fledgling took turns eating it.