Morning watch 11-6-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
It was partly cloudy and pretty warm at 47 (F) 8 (C) when I started my watch but it turned sunny with blue skies by the end of it-the sunrise colors were pretty to the south
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It felt like our falcons were sleeping in today as I didn’t find any until 7am when I spotted Dot.Ca (DC) on the Kodak Office (KO) launchpad northeast corner.
I parked on State St. north of Brown St. at first and when DC turned I checked him out from Mill St. He stooped down the east side of KO and returned without a catch. And around 7:20am he flew south and didn’t return.
After a spin around downtown I spotted a falcon under the northeast wing of the Times Square building (TSB) with its back to me. After a bit Beauty finally showed her face so I was able to ID her. I think she was nibbling on something due to her posture and movements. She eventually turned a little so I could see her profile at least and then she was gone around 8am, leaving when I wasn’t looking.
I went to Brighton after that and found not only Pigott but DC as well around 8:30am. She was on the east side roof north of DC who was at the southeast corner of the same roof ledge by the tree. DC was plucking feathers from prey at first but stopped after a few minutes while Pigott whined on and off.
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After 10 minutes they both flew off, Pigott going first headed west. They returned with DC going back to the same corner by the tree and Miss Pigott landed on the southeast corner upper level of the southeast extension. She would walk back and forth to the corner directly above DC 3 times in the next 45 minutes.
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At 9:30am DC flew off to the west followed by Pigott and they didn’t return. Turns out DC went downtown to be with Beauty as I found them together when I arrived at City Hall.
DC off to see Beauty next
DC was on the northeast cube of the Frontier Communications Tower (Beautys’ favorite FCT spot) and she was below him on an inside corner. I could see her well from Fitzhugh St. in front of the Sister Cities parking garage.
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I wanted to see the front of Beauty so I drove down to the City Hall parking lot but could only see her head and tip of her tail. There were city workers putting up lights on the trees so I was a bit surprised to see Beauty and DC in such close proximity to them and the cherry picker.
That would be all she wrote as I ended my watch a little after 10am smiling as I left the city! 🙂
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