Morning watch 11-24-13
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Is it November or January!? The temperature at 19 (F) -7 (C) sure doesn’t feel like a week before Thanksgiving, never the less we are in the deep freeze today with light lake effect snow showers
I first found Dot.Ca (DC) on the top ibeam south corner of OCSR, soon after he flew over to the Times Square building (TSB) and landed under the southeast wing. About a minute later Beauty came flying in from the east and DC flew down to the deck, landing next to the main cam.
A minute later DC left the area flying east out of view from my spot in the hole. 5 minutes later Beauty appeared under the southeast wing and she was eating. I parked in front of the Blue Cross Arena on Exchange St. for the best angle on her. The Beautyful one finished up in 15-20 minutes and then flew east towards OCSR. I drove to the Radisson Hotel near Main St. and found her up in the elevator shaft of OCSR on the north side ledge.
The wind picked up and it started to snow, I thought it was a good time to go check the Brighton site. When I arrived just after 8am, Pigott was on the east end of the south side vent all foofed up to keep warm.
After a couple minutes I thought I should check around the east end of the building and there I found DC on the southeast corner by the roof top tree eating.
DC spent 30 minutes eating and then he flew to a south side window with leftovers as Pigott flew off somewhere as well.
A minute later Miss Pigott flew in from the east and landed on a south side window and DC flew to the southwest extension and came to rest on an east facing window. He finished off his meal then flew to a west facing window ledge on the southwest extension announcing his arrival with some eechups. Pigott was kiddie corner to him where she was perched.
<Pigott
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I left them around 9:10am, checking the OCSR elevator shaft for Beauty when I got back to the city. She was still up there so I called it a watch at 9:20am. Keep smiling everybody! 🙂
Click on the links below to see some videos
http://youtu.be/2eBuCYhgWhI
http://youtu.be/8YLEFmU6tO0
http://youtu.be/POnPjUa8RIE
http://youtu.be/XHENU5DIAuI
November 24th, 2013 at 5:58 PM
It is too cold here for November too! Brrrr…the wind makes it so much worse.
Was working in the yard this afternoon, putting away the lawn swing and stuff and raking and it was cold.
LOL-DC looked like he was saying “ya caught me MAK” in that picture of him looking up from his meal.
I wonder if our falcons feel the cold like we do or if the “foofing up” does the trick?
Thanks for the great report 🙂
November 24th, 2013 at 6:15 PM
Ginny, the only work I did outside today was shoveling the driveway before my watch! lol I definitely think they stay warm in their foofed up state! 🙂
November 24th, 2013 at 6:28 PM
I figured I better get the stuff in before it’s time to shovel here too-LOL 🙂
November 25th, 2013 at 12:30 PM
LOL Ginny! 🙂