Mary and I have been following the San Jose falcons fairly closely the past couple days. On Thursday we went downtown in hopes of catching sight of the recently fledged boy, 93-P (now named Mercury). He was being harassed by crows most of the day, and kept on the move. We kept missing him. We eventually caught up to him sitting on a second story window ledge above Zanotto’s Market on 2nd Street. I was able to take some pictures using the digiscope setup. You can see them on my gallery. NBC11 used a couple of my pictures on their web slide show called Adventures in San Jose Baby-Bird-Sitting.

We didn’t have a chance to go downtown on Friday, but we did follow the action via the webcam and discussion group. It turns out Mercury ended up in an unsafe location and was again escorted to the roof of City Hall. He stayed there most of the day, and eventually managed to fly down to the nest area where he spent the night with his sisters Cielo and Meyye. There’s an article about the falcon naming on NBC11 and the San Jose Mercury News ran the following tagline on their Saturday morning paper:

Today, we spent most of the day downtown, dragging my nephew Nick to hang out with all the crazy falcon fans. Apparently we missed some really cool food exchanges, but we did see all of the young falcons from the 4th Street garage. We even saw Mercury make a short flight from the nest box to the window louver where Clara was perched. We had a good time watching the birds and chatting with the other falconatics.