First Fledge At Fifth Avenue

Pale Male and Octavia had their first fledge today.  They fledgling made a long flight over the Model Boat Pond to a tree by the Hans Christian Andersen statue.  It must have remained there for at least two hours.  It then flew towards the nest and landed in a tree before going to a balcony on a building three doors down from the nest.   It tried to go to the south face of the nest building but got confused. It thought the middle bar separating two window panes was a perch.  It floated down five floors before flying out over Fifth Avenue.  It tried to perch up high but missed and ended up landing flat with its wings open on a low branch above the sidewalk on park side of Fifth Avenue.  After a short rest it recovered its barrings and explored a number of low branches.   It ended up roosting on Fifth Avenue for the night.

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