Hello, fellow trainers...

I managed to show up on time with 2 other people to
the first Zapdos raid in my city, at 7:00PM EST.

There were about 75 people there, ready to take it down.

After my success capturing Moltres with a curve ball...
I've been all about that curve ball hype when dealing
with these legendary birds.

The Zapdos was powerful. It took down all 6 of my top
fighters quickly, and I was on my 3rd Pokemon of
Group 2 to fight when the team took down the Zapdos.

During the capture stage I got 8 Premier Balls to try my
chances with.

I used curve balls on all throws and on throw 5, BAM!
I caught em.

Zapdos
Wonder | HP | DEF | Incredible
w/
Charge Beam 8
Zap Cannon 140

Here's the full image.

I was quite happy with this outcome. Caught him on my first
encounter and he's like ~95% perfect.

We went out for Chicken Wings and were discussing
Move Sets for Zapdos and discovered that while weaker,
Thunder 100 is better as an CHARGE ATTACK because
of shorter cooldown and overall DPS.

So I used a Charged TM to change it for THUNDER 100.

After dinner, we drove over to a second Zapdos raid near
a tiny lake along a trail.

There, I managed to catch this Zapdos. It's only a
"Caught my attention..." level, not a WONDER, but
oh well.

2 for 2 on Zapdos!