Fledge Watch Day Two Updates
12:09 pm Update: DWR Staff arrived on site at approximately 9:00 am and quickly located two of the three fledglings.
White was detected atop Towne Bank shortly after our arrival. Around 11:00 am he left his perch, displaying some impressive altitude gain with his flight, before ultimately landing on the New Dominion building where he is currently perched. At this point, the team is incredibly confident in his ability to navigate both flight and landings within the city.
Shortly after arrival, a second fledgling was detected atop the Bank of America building. Based on the birds size and a few glimpses of the band, we are almost certain this is Red. As a reminder, she had a collision yesterday, so we are happy to have located her so quickly on top of one of the taller buildings in the city. She remains here at the time of this writing and we hope we get the observation to see her flight behavior at some point this afternoon.
We have not yet located the third fledgling, Blue. Although our team downtown is continuing to search.
3:25 pm Update: Following our last update, Red left her perch atop Bank of America around 2:00 pm and after a short bout of flight, ultimately landed on the roof of the Riverfront West Tower, out of sight of our observers. Blue was spotted shortly thereafter when he landed atop the First National Bank Building. He remained in this location for a few minutes before taking off towards the Towne Bank building. He displayed strong flight and landing skills during this time. Finally, White has continued to fly over Kanawha Plaza periodically, but at the moment remains perched atop the New Dominion building along the same ledge that he utilized repeatedly yesterday.
At this point our team is feeling confident in the skills displayed by each bird and will be leaving the city around 4:00 pm. We will continue to utilize the camera to search for fledglings and adults on some of their known favorite locations, but do not feel a third monitoring day is warranted at this time.