28 Might 2025
Only one week after Banding Day the Pitt peregrine chicks have gotten totally feathered and turning brown.
Subsequent week they’ll be able to fly. We’ll know this as a result of step-by-step they may:
- Pull the white fluff off their feathers and turn out to be darkish brown.
- Spend a variety of time flapping and exercising their wings.
- Make operating nearly airborne leaps throughout the gravel … after which …
- Stroll up the bulwark and out of digicam view to face on the nestrail.
… at which level the most effective place to see them is from Schenley Plaza.
This photograph from June 2021 was taken on the plaza. Come on right down to Fledge Look ahead to views like this.
Pitt Peregrine Fledge Watch, Schenley Plaza, June 1-5, 2025
Pitt Peregrine Fledge Watch is a drop-in occasion to see the peregrine household and watch the children study to fly. I’ll be there with my scope readily available for a more in-depth view of their exercise.
Meet me on the tent on the dates and occasions under, climate allowing.
The place: Schenley Plaza close to the tent, pictured above.
When: Fledge Watch is climate dependent and shall be canceled for rain or thunder. Verify the Occasions web page earlier than you are available in case of climate cancellation.
- 1 June, 4:30pm to five:30pm (Sunday) — after the Neighborhood Flea Market ends at 3:30pm
- 2 June, 4:30pm to five:30pm (Monday)
- 3 June, 11:30am to 12:30pm (Tuesday)
- 4 June, 11:30am to 12:30pm (Wednesday)
- 5 June, 11:30am to 12:30pm (Thursday)
- 6 June (Friday) — to be decided, relying on whether or not they’ve all flown.
See you on the tent subsequent week.
p.s. If nobody exhibits up I would keep solely half-hour, so come in the beginning in case you can.
