Here are some photos from yesterday’s Fledge Watch and the subsequent thunderstorms.
Traci Darin sent pictures of Fledge Watch. In this collection, one of the parents watches his “kids” from the lightning rod, three of the five youngsters lounge on the nestrail, and a fledgling tries his wings on the edge of the 38th floor.
Late in the day, two big thunderstorms came through Pittsburgh and dropped more than 2″ of rain. During the first storm, one of the Pitt fledglings was still perched on Heinz Chapel steeple where he got very wet but was otherwise unaffected, as you can see from Peter Bell’s photo taken just after the rain.
Meanwhile at the Gulf Tower nest, you can see the lightning and hear thunder in this archived video.
And to give you an idea of the storms’ intensity, here’s a photo Donna Memon took from Mount Washington as the second storm moved east of town. That lightning was probably hitting Squirrel Hill.
(photos by Traci Darin, Peter Bell and Donna Memon)