Morning watch 2-13-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
Today the conditions were overcast with a starting temperature of 16 (F) -9 (C)
After one trip around downtown without success I spotted Beauty on Bausch & Lomb as I was stopped at the traffic light at Broad and South Ave. around 7:30am. She was eating on the northwest corner.
She finished soon after, did some feaking and flew off to the northeast. That would be the last I saw of the Beautyful one today.
After a look around for her I left for the Brighton site. On the way over I got a tweet from Larry that he saw a falcon on the northwest extension. So when I got there I found it to be Pigott on the northwest corner. Soon after she flew over to the west extension and landed on the southwest corner and started to pick at something briefly at 8:14am.
I saw stray feathers every now and then float by as she was just perched doing nothing. This told me that Dot.Ca (DC) might be up there somewhere with food. Sure enough as I drove around to the southwest side of the building I spotted DC eating on the southwest corner of the west extension.
Pigott had a full crop so I figure DC was eating her leftovers as he likes to do that with Beauty as well. He stopped for a minute to watch Pigott fly off to the west and return to her corner across from him, then resumed filling his crop. He finished up,did some feaking and settled in for a rest period. Pigott seemed like she was going to chill for a while as well.
<Pigott DC>
I left them to digest their breakfast and headed for downtown to see if I could find Beauty but that didn’t happen, so I ended my watch at 9:15am. It made me smile to see all 3 Rochester Peregrine Falcons with full crops on my watch this morning! 🙂
Click on the links below to see videos of Pigott and DC
February 14th, 2014 at 8:39 AM
Full crops are good! Especially in this weather.
February 14th, 2014 at 1:36 PM
Absolutely Nora! 🙂