Morning watch 9-7-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Back to overcast skies and a starting temperature of 56 (F) 13 (C)
I had a little trouble finding a falcon this morning at the start as I checked all of downtown then headed to Hawkeye (HE) where I saw no juvies. Upon returning to the east side of the city at 7am I found the Beautyful one on the northeast corner of HSBC.
I shared space with her for 10 minutes and then she flew NW looped back around to circle HSBC before flying west out of my view. The pics below are her takeoff in sequence.
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I received a tweet from Larry (who had been near HSBC when I was, but on the south side) that he saw a falcon flying at the Hawkeye location. I don’t think I need to tell you that I whipped over there to join him. Unfortunately, the PEFA never showed itself again as we watched from the YMCA parking lot. We stayed about 30 minutes and then Larry drove to the north end on St. Paul St. to check because you can’t see the nest box from Driving Park where the YMCA is located. I left for Brighton (BS) but first a check downtown on my way found Beauty on the northeast cube of the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT).
Taken from north side
Taken from south side
I stayed just a few minutes then continued on to BS where I located Pigott on the west extension north side on the window below the old blocked off scrape. She had her back to the world and promptly started to stretch so I could get a better look at her and you could clearly see her black band with 43/x on it.
Miss Pigott was very alert as she usually is looking in every direction of her territory, or at least the part she could see from where she was perched. Oh and more stretching.
I hung out with Pigott for close to an hour hoping Dot.Ca would come by for a visit but no such luck. I did enjoy watching her antics and poses for the camera. Oh and some more stretching!
Her tail feathers have filled back in quite nicely don’t you think!? She expelled a ribbon of poop and yes one more stretch to show off her gorgeous feathers.
At 9:10am as I was getting ready to call it a watch a light rain started to fall from the sky and a tweet from Lisa McK came in saying that while at the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge she was told that our male juvie Baron has been seen there. What wonderful news to send me off smiling! 🙂
Click on the links below for a couple videos
