Thursday Afternoon Falcon Watch – Where You Lead, I Will Follow! – 11/7/13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
My afternoon falcon watches have been reminding me more and more of that old Carole King song. You know the one.
“Where you lead, I will follow. Anywhere that you tell me to.”
It usually doesn’t take me long to find Beauty and Dot.ca and when I do, they are usually together. Today was no different. I found them both on the Mercury statue. Beauty was on the base of the statue and Dot.ca was on the upthrust hand that holds a money bag.
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It was really cold this afternoon and threatening clouds had moved in. It felt like it would snow at any moment. In fact, they are calling for a chance of snow overnight. We’ll see.
I moved out to the Broad St Bridge to get a different view of the falcons. First Beauty spread her wings and took off, flying north down the river and over the Radisson. She turned towards the OCSR and landed on the south side top IBeam. She wasn’t there long before Dot.ca took off and joined her. lol It is fun watching these two.
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Dot.ca on the left and Beauty on the right on the south side of OCSR, top IBeam.
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While I was watching Beauty and Dot.ca on Mercury, I spotted this very large gull on the river below. I believe it is a Herring Gull. Almost twice as big as the Ring-billed Gulls.
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It was time for me to move on. Next stop the BS location. I found Pigott on a window on the south side of the east end of the building near the corner. She had her back to me. Joyce joined me on the Watch. We didn’t stay long, because we were losing light quickly and I wanted to check out the lake areas. This is the best picture I was able to get of Pigott at BS.
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I left Joyce and headed north towards Lake Ontario. By the time I arrived at Charlotte/Summerville, it was dark, but I could still see the antenna at the Coast Guard Station and it was empty. Russell Station was next and again I could find no falcons. I did take a picture of the towering dark clouds building over the lake (Ontario).
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My last stop was Latta Rd. No falcon there either. It was time to head home. My Watch was short and sweet, but seeing all three resident falcons made it a good watch. Goodnight everyone!
