Wednesday Late Afternoon Falcon Watch – Boy it Gets Dark Fast! – 11/6/13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
Another warm Fall day! Temps in the 60’s (F), but mostly cloudy by the time I left work. I had to move quickly. Because of the time change last weekend, I only had about an hour before it got dark.
I headed downtown first. Both Beauty and Dot.ca were on the Frontier Communication Tower (FCT) on the north east box.
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By the time I parked in front of City Hall, both had taken off. I found them both on the City Place Bldg, which is just south of FCT. I think they were looking for cached food. First one and then the other would disappear from view and then reappear.
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Dot.ca took off and flew over me heading north and Beauty remained on City Place. From City Hall, I could see that Dot.ca had landed on the Kodak Tower, on the north east corner of the launch pad. That’s where I headed next. After taking a few pictures of Dot.ca another falcon flew in and after circling the Kodak Tower, Beauty landed on the cupola just above Dot.ca.
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While I was watching Beauty and Dot.ca, I received a tweet from Dana. She was had spotted the unbanded tiercel on the antenna on Latta Rd, and he was eating.
I was starting to lose light, so I headed over to the BS location. Pigott was on a window on the east side of the SE extension.
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I didn’t have much time to spend watching, but I was happy to find all three resident falcons.
I’ll leave you with this collage that Dana sent me from her afternoon watch. Three of the pictures are of the unbanded Tiercel in Greece and the 4th is a Merlin she saw in Irondequoit earlier today. Thanks for sharing Dana!
Goodnight everyone!
