By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.

Again catching up!  Here are some pictures from a day spent up in Canada with good friends and doing what I love to do, Watch Falcons!  Kathy, Lisa, Dana and I rode up together and met Joyce and MAK there.

First up, attending Quest’s and Kendal’s banding day.  It was overcast and spitting rain, but we still had a wonderful time.

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After attending the banding of Quest and Kendal’s young eyases, we got together with some of our Canadian friends and paid a visit to Rosetta McClain Park.  This is the park that Big Frank set up a hawk watch during the migration along Lake Ontario.  He used to tell me how beautiful it was there and I have to totally agree.  It is a gorgeous park and we had a very nice visit with our friends Ann, Carol, Cory and Patty (I hope I’m not forgetting someone).  Here are some pictures from our visit.

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We said goodbye to our friends, promising to come back up for a visit.  Our next stop was to the Yellow Pages Bldg to see if we could find Linn and Reuben.  We did see both of them keeping guard over their eyases.  It was getting late, so we had to continue on.  It was time to head south, towards home.  But before we did, we stopped at Burlington to help with their fledge watch.  When we arrived, we had just missed the rescue of Sarah, who had come down for the 2nd time.  We joined our friends Sue and Bill McC and Bruce from CPF and other regular watchers at this location.  Joyce and MAK also joined the fledge watch.  They had been there when Sarah was rescued.

We stayed until dark, when Tracy from CPF arrived and, after making sure that Sarah was ok, she returned her to the nest box.  It was so much fun watching these newly fledged Peregrines.  Today (7/10/13) Sue McC posted that all four fledglings are doing well.  This is such good news.  All four have fledged successfully and are strong fliers!  Here are some pictures from our fledge watch at Burlington.

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We stayed with Tracy and Bruce until they all settled down for the evening.   It was time for this very tired, but happy bunch of watchers to head home after a wonderful day spent with good friends and watching the birds we love to Watch!

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