I arrived at the eyrie around 1 p.m. to find one of the eyasses had already fledged to the northern fire escape of 530 West End Avenue four floors down from the top. The mother was on a railing watching over the new fledgeling, who as running across the fire escape. The fledgling made a few attempts to go through a closed window, only to learn it’s not possible.

Then it was up the ladder for the fledgling. It eventually when a floor higher. Newly fledged raptors seem to know to go higher, as it’s safer, and this one showed this instinct.

The bird did lots of flapping and was watched over from a building on 85th Street by the adult male. I didn’t spend much time looking at the eyrie and only spotted one of the two remaining eyasses.

Some fledge days are full of drama, when they fledge badly. I’m not sure what happened later in the evening, but at least while I was there everything seemed to be just as it should be.