FALCON FLASH
Dateline: Cleveland, Ohio
May 18, 2012
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Photos are courtesy of Scott Wright, volunteer peregrine nest monitor. They may be used in any non-commercial publication, electronic or print, but please give photo credit.
Uno is one month old and changing very fast.
If you have been studying the FalconCam archives the last few days, you have noticed she is out of the nest for much of the day. This morning you can see she stepped out of the nest before 6 A.M.
Volunteer nest monitor, Mr. Scott Wright, visited the nest and saw her out walking on the skyscraper’s ledge.
“Ledge-walking” scares some falcon fans, because the falcons' nestbox is 13 stories up on their skyscraper and the ledge is narrow - but don't worry, she won't fall off. Falcons are cliff-dwellers and are adapted to high places. Here is a view from the skyscraper ledge.
Uno is growing very fast and requires LOTS of food. While Mr. Wright watched, Uno came back to the nest to pester Boomer for food.
According to the Canadian Peregrine Foundation, “Peregrines, as well as many other predatory species, can eat large quantities of food in one sitting, which is to their advantage because they never know when they will get their next meal. Peregrines can, in one sitting, eat a meal weighing as much as one quarter of their own weight. Additional food is usually stored in caches to be returned to at a later time when fresh food is scarce.” The peregrine falcons’ keen eyesight (believed to be seven times that of human vision), great speed, hooked beak and powerful talons make them excellent hunters. This is Boomer…….
SW's powerful talons
Uno spends her time exercising her muscles and wings and going for walks around the ledge.
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Is she thinking about flying?
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