Still Waiting For #3

Downtown nestling #3 still waiting to fly, 17 June 2015 (photo by Mary deVaughn)
Downtown nestling #3 still waiting to fly (photo by Mary deVaughn)

We thought peregrine nestling #3 would make her first flight in Downtown Pittsburgh on Monday or Tuesday but she disappointed us and remained nest-bound on Wednesday, too. (June 17)

She’s showing promise, though.  Yesterday Marcia Cooper captured a cellphone photo of #3 perched on the railing.  Silly me, I thought all three nestlings would use that railing before they flew.  Her brothers skipped that step.

Peregrine nestling #3 is the only one to perch on the railing (photo by Marcia Cooper)
Peregrine nestling #3 is the only one to perch on the railing, 17 June 2015 (photo by Marcia Cooper)

Exercise is exhausting.  Between bouts of wing flapping #3 sleeps on her belly like a baby.

Downtown Pittsburgh peregrine nestling #3 (photo by Marcia Cooper)
Downtown Pittsburgh peregrine nestling #3, 17 June 2015 (photo by Marcia Cooper)

Dori and Louie are doing their best to entice her to fly by feeding her less (she complains!) and perching in her sight line on the Union Trust Building.  “Come over here,” they say.

I hope she’ll fly today.

p.s.  The first two fledglings have graduated from Fledge Watch but #3 needs Watchers on Saturday.  Please leave a comment if you can help Downtown on June 20. (I can’t be there, alas!)

 

(photos by Mary DeVaughn and Marcia Cooper)

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