Sat 13 Sep 2008
Barbara and I drove over to Bloom School during a lull in the rain this morning (9/13)around 11:30 a.m. The juvenile kite was flying around the school in a fairly wide pattern, then perched in a honey locust tree in front of the school on Brendenwood. Not long afterward, the female adult showed up and perched nearby on top of a spruce. Shortly, the adult male flew in with a cicada in his beak and fed the juvenile. He returned with another cicada before we left just before noon.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Barbara checked out the kites this morning. The dead elm tree in which the adults often perched has fallen down, probably related to the wet conditions over the weekend. She saw the adult kites feeding the juvenile for a while, then all 3 flew up and began circling together to the southwest. Apparently they didn’t leave for migration, though, because I heard the juvenile calling around 4:00p.m.