S.L. Falcon Babies Learning to Fly

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Wednesday was a scary day for a cluster of bird lovers who have gathered downtown to watch Salt Lake City's famous peregrine falcon babies fly.

For nearly a week, Bob Walters has been staked out with binoculars and 20 years experience on the corner of 100 South and Regent Street. All day he watches the skies and the white, weathered box just below the First Security sign, his amplified lenses trained on the fuzzy brown dots 15 stories up. He's weathered 90-degree days and thunderstorms waiting for three fledgling falcons to take air.

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S.L. Falcon Babies Learning to Fly

Tuesday morning, about 10:25 a.m., one did.

The 6-week-old falcon tottered to the edge of the nesting box, leaned out, lifted her wings, then flew straight east, land...

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