Monday Falcon Watch – 12/16/13 – An Adult Peregrine Falcon Seen at KP
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
OK, what are the chances. I’m leaving work, walking to my car in the parking lot with my co-worker Patty at 3:30 pm. I look up and see a bird flying overhead. I say to Patty, there goes a falcon. Definitely a Peregrine Falcon. I really love when that happens. 🙂
The falcon had flown in from the east and was heading west towards the Kodak Park area where Unity used to hang out. I watched the falcon until it flew out of sight, over the Kodak Park Plant aka Eastman Business Park. I jumped in my car, after cleaning a couple inches of snow off of it and headed in the direction I had last seen the falcon.
From the parking lot, I spotted an adult Peregrine Falcon on the east smokestack on the south side of the lower catwalk. Of course I did not have my camera with me. I tweeted out that the falcon was here and then headed home to grab my camera. When I returned, my fellow watch Dana was there. I did get a few pictures before the falcon took off and headed south at 4:30 pm. We waited to see if the falcon would return, but it did not. I had to be somewhere, so I ended my watch, just as the sun was going down.
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Dana, Joyce and Brian had been down at Russell Station and had spotted a juvie falcon hunting off the stacks there. I sure do hope it was Billy. Oh, and Brian says he saw a Gyrfalcon flying along the lake shore. I would love to see one in the wild. They reported that it had been snowing quite a bit when they were there. Here is a picture taken from KP looking north showing the snow clouds over the lake.
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There was a full moon (or close to a full moon) rising as I ended my watch. Between all the watchers out today, there were 5 different falcons seen in the Rochester area. Pretty awesome! Goodnight everyone!
