RICHMOND 2017 JUNE

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

I wonder if this cam has a DVR feature so that they can scroll back through to see what happened!!

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

Well, here's hoping somebody spots them and they are safe...

Falcon shadow...wonder who...

Buncombe · **Joined:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:03 am **Posts:** 18

The door was closed around 7 a.m. this morning.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

Buncombe wrote:

The door was closed around 7 a.m. this morning.

Thanks...good to know!! Well, either they changed their minds and opened it earlier, the mechanism malfunctioned, or the kids broke out...LOL

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

Ya know, that shadow could be one of the kids (I hope) and that's why they aren't moving it for fear of scaring it off. It certainly is stretching like a kid!! (not that adults don't stretch)

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

Yep...almost positive the shadow is a kid...some tentative flapping...I just can't figure out where it is sitting..

Droopy wings

Hopefully its the female!!

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

Most definitely a kid. it was kid screaming...and now they are taking a chance and trying to find where it is sitting....not on top of the box or the ledge next to the box....so, where!! Maybe behind the cam? That's where one of the parents sits sometimes...

obxbarb · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:59 am

I don't see that water bottle contraption, I wonder if the just got out. That would be hilarious. Thanks for the play by play everyone. I guess I'll try and get down to check it out, fortunately I live really close now but they've destroyed the park we used to sit in below the building.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

That would be great, Barb!!

This baby (shadow) has been flapping like crazy...and has just now disappeared...they are panning...did it fledge? Hope not!!!

Buncombe · **Joined:** Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:03 am **Posts:** 18

https://blog.wildlife.virginia.gov/falcon-cam/

Nest update. Flown the coop!

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

Thanks Buncombe...and duh...LOL the joke's on us!!!

My last pics of the Shadow Falcon...totally unimpressive unless you were watching..

The chick had been hop/flapping along whatever this structure is..

Then started moving out of view..

even further

They tried to track the shadow..Maybe a falcon...and maybe not!!

They started panning and as they were coming back around, parent on top of the box ( I think Ozzie) who was doing a lot of talon cleaning and feaking...maybe a food drop to the shadow falcon? Who knows..

Parent is now gone off the top of the box..

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

OK...maybe the parent didn't leave...I don't remember seeing one this far back!!

Beth · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:14 am

Oh my goodness...The kids were ready and broke out!

Thanks for the updates Richmond crew :15heartbeat:

heida · **Joined:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:24 am **Posts:** 2872

Just tuned in to read all the things that have happened. I just looked at the camera and I see what looks like something sitting on the n in the word bank. Maybe just my wishful thinking. I don't know how far that bank is from where the nest is.

heida · **Joined:** Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:24 am **Posts:** 2872

Now on the n in the word Towne. Maybe and adult??

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

I hope Barb made it down...I've been recording the cam non-stop since the shadow falcon disappeared. Only thing flying that I've seen is a a strange wasp...LOL

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

There is something on the "S" (of Sun)...and dang...just missed the fly off...it headed down and to the right..Could have been a parent...could have been a pigeon...it was pretty fast!!

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

If it was a parent..it headed "that away!!" Actually, it dropped down first (in front of the building) before turning to our right outta view...(I should have made a curved line..LOL)

obxbarb · **Posted:** Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:49 pm

Suntrust is a favorite perch spot for the adults. Sounds like they have spotted the male on the 4th floor but no female yet.

skygirlblue · **Joined:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:18 pm **Posts:** 64414

4th floor of the Sun Trust Building?

Great news.....thanks Barb!!

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