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Sharing a post from San Jose Falcons:

Sharing a post from our biologist Zeka:
Hi all,
Zeka Glucs from PBRG here with some more details on the San Jose City Hall Banding Day. We are looking forward to banding the four chicks and reporting back to this group on check sexes and overall health. They are looking quite active for their age (~20-21 days today) so I expect they are developing well.
Tomorrow morning we will likely arrive to the roof at around 10:30am and then rappel to the nest ledge soon after that. We will be keeping the cameras running during the nest entry and try to arrange ourselves so that you can see the process of measuring and banding the chicks. Each chick gets one metal identification band per leg: a black band with a large alphanumeric code and a silver US Geological Service band which we will cover with temporary colored tape for more identification ease in the nest and during fledge watch. Once they are measured and banded we will be able to discern if they are male and female. Then we collect a wing feather clipping for contaminant stable isotope analysis and three newly emerged body feathers for genetics before returning them to the nest. During the nest entry you may see and hear the parents defending the nest. This is normal and expected, and quite convincing in person! We will complete our work as quickly and safely as possible, then leave the chicks in the nest box for the parents to discover are all well and accounted for so they can know that they successfully chased us off and can resume their job of parenting the young.

May 15, 2025
8 am 2 of the kids went outside. Cute.

San Jose CH Falcons
Chicks Get Banded
Hartley, Monty Divebomb Featherless Intruders
2025 May 13
https://youtu.be/D1RlvHE804o

38 BK female blue
39 BK female yellow
40 BK female
77 BA male red

Chilling descent and ascent! ugh!
Very entertaining video.
Surprisingly aggressive parents - they'd even perch on wall right by banders, and sit there yelling at them!

Thank you, Shepherd.

This can also be found in Nesting Information in the front of the topic. Interesting reading. You can go back through the years and see what was going on at the nest.

I am very encouraged to see a successful nest, 4 young and repeat parents.

Cams I've watched this year - lots of disappointments.

I, too, love to watch this nest.

LOL Chico- what else = Little Boy

june1
just chilling


all 4 by drain( one in shade)

2fledges this morning Octavia and Emma
One was rescued and put on roof by boots on ground

I will report here later

There is still time for all 4 to fledge today!

There is a video taken by the San Jose group shows each of the fledges:

Chico found , yeah and 3 females spotted. They were together and have been fed . I forgot names no

Now all 4 in view