Over the past 2 weeks, I've been helping with Cortland Red Cross swimming lessons at the Wickwire Pool. After listening to some kind of fledgling raptor calls for several days, I decided to actively seek them out - and found 2 juvenile merlins with a single adult. They have been a bit stressed for the past 3 days as 10-12 trees were removed (perhaps their nesting tree also??). Today both young were perched on the electric wires, complaining loudly, when the adult flew close, looped the wire, then into a nearby tree. Eventually both fledglings took off and, after some odd aerial maneuvers, joined the adult and were fed.
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