Monday Evening Falcon Watch – Beauty, Dot.ca and Pigott Seen; No UT, No Juvie – 10/7/13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
5:45 – 7:00 pm
Watchers during this time: Joyce, Kathy O and Carol P.
Note: Lisa McK had gone over to BS at lunch time and reported only seeing Pigott.
The day started out in the 70’s (F) and then a cold front moved through Rochester. It rained most of the morning into the afternoon. Finally, around 5:00 pm, the sun broke through for a little while and the winds picked up. The temps dropped down into the 50’s this evening. It was down right chilly! It was time for me to head out for a short falcon watch.
On my way downtown, I checked out ST and HE for the juvie Peregrine. No sightings at either location.
Joyce tweeted from the BS location that she found Pigott on the east side of the building, but could not find UT.
I drove through downtown and found a very wet falcon with its’ back to me on top of Xerox on the east side, one column in from the SE corner. I am pretty sure this was Dot.ca. Joyce tweeted that she had a wet falcon on the south side of OCSR on the top IBeam near the south corner. I drove over to the Broad St Bridge and Joyce joined me there.
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Joyce went over to see Dot.ca on Xerox and I headed over to the BS location. Kathy O beat me over there and we found Pigott on the NW corner of the west end of the building. Joyce joined us. We all checked out the building, but we couldn’t find UT. Pigott flew around to the south side of the bldg and landed on the SE corner of the SW extension. As the light faded, Pigott went into hunt mode. We watched her stoop twice, to the west, low. Both times she returned to the same spot, unsuccessful on her hunts.
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At 7:00 pm, it was dark and the lights went on. It was time to end our evening Falcon Watch after seeing Beauty, Dot.ca and Pigott. Goodnight everyone!
