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Morning watch 4-21-14

By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

Twas a nice warm morning with a starting temperature at 6am of 53 (F) 12 (C) and heading to the 70s this afternoon with overcast skies

When I left for my watch Dot.Ca (DC) was incubating his eggs on livestream. Initially I didn’t find Beauty but as I checked from the Andrews St. bridge (ASB) I spotted her on the base of Mercury. I drove to the Broad St. bridge straight away and she left soon after I got there at 6:30am.

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Beauty slipped off the back of the base where I couldn’t see her and that would be the last I saw of her for the next 2 hours. I noticed a duck on the east (river) side roof edge of the Thomson Reuters building-I can’t remember ever seeing a duck on a roof. Maybe there are eggs up there-oh boy, not a good place mama if there is a nest. A male, probably her mate showed up a long while later but I don’t know if he flew in or was up there because I wasn’t present t the time. I was driving around looking for Beauty.

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I checked the Brighton site in between around 7:30am and found there to be no falcons. It’s a real concern having 2 females-1 adult and 1 juvenile hanging around north of the city only a couple miles away from downtown on Seneca Towers and Kodak Park on Lake Ave. They could challenge for Beauty and DCs nest and territory since it doesn’t appear that either one has a mate. So when I returned to downtown I started getting a little antsy over not seeing Beauty still-then a tweet came while I was checking Kodak Office (KO) from Larry saying he had a falcon flying above Xerox. I drove to Woodbury St. on the east side to check it out but saw no falcon. Larry then tweeted a falcon flying west so then I drove to the BSB and met up with him. We talked a bit then Larry left to walk Harold and I drove north to look for Beauty. As I was on my way both Donna and Larry reported a falcon on cam 1 so I went to the hole to see the Beautyful one on cam 1 at around 8:30am.

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A teller from Keybank stopped to ask about the falcons-Beauty left cam 1 when I wasn’t looking and after the woman left for work I saw who looked like Beauty on the Mercury money bag.

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The back lighting from the sun made it hard for a good view and I got a tweet from Larry that DC left and Beauty was now incubating, hmmm. I went up to the BSB for a better angle but Beauty left Mercury before I got there. Donna finally cleared it up for me-Beauty flew to Mercury from cam 1 then went to nest box and that was all done in less than a minute. Peregrines are very fast movers! I also received tweets from cam watchers Ei and Carly that Beauty was on the eggs as well around 9am. Thanks to all that helped me this morning!  So now I needed to find DC before I could end my watch and after checking the usual places surrounding the Times Square area I went north to find DC on the northeast corner of the Kodak Office launchpad. I stopped first on State St. south of KO, and DC gave me the signal to go forward. lol

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So I parked north of KO to see the front of him-he flew off a minute later heading west before going into a stoop.

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He returned less than a minute later, circled above KO a couple times then flew back to the launchpad. i think he was trying to flush prey out from the building.

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I said my good byes and ended my watch at 9:15am. It was an unusual watch but successful without incident and surely worth smiling about! 🙂

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7 Responses to “Morning watch 4-21-14”

  1. kathy Says:

    Great report as always MAK. I”m concerned about those 2 females as well! Thanks for looking out for them all!

  2. patsy6 Says:

    I love the shots of the ducks! You’re right, though, really bad place for a nest if there is one there. Actually, the Keybank branch that was in the Tallman Building at 25 East Main Street closed almost a year ago. It closed during the SpiderMan filming. When you’ve been down in the hole I’m sure you’ve noticed that the Keybank sign hasn’t been there since last May. I was really bummed because that was my branch. The teller must have been from Canandaigua National.

  3. Margaret Says:

    We all have to believe that Beauty and her eggs – and Dot.ca will
    Hold their own. Beauty is one hearty and smart PEFa.

  4. MAK Says:

    You know it Carly!

    Pat, I don’t know what’s in that space now but lots of people go in that back door of the Tallman Building in the morning-a few of them talk to me about the falcons. I don’t know where any of them work we just discuss the PEFAs and/or I say hi as they enter the building if I’m parked there. I should not have assumed she was a bank teller. Just the facts ma’am, just the facts.

    Margaret, I know they can hold their own but I’d rather not see them have to. 🙂

  5. Ginny Says:

    MAK,
    I am very concerned about those two female falcons too. I don’t understand why two females are even hanging around together. Like you I don’t want to see Beauty have to hold her own against them.
    Especially with those precious eggs right now.

  6. MAK Says:

    Yes Ginny-I think Beauty and DC can defend just fine but the eggs are fragile and can easily be damaged. I will be praying that peace reigns! 🙂

  7. patsy6 Says:

    Yeah, I’m not sure what (if anything) is in the space on the first floor where Keybank was either, MAK. I know there are some law firms, accounting firms, etc. on the upper floors.

    I’m choosing to think positive thoughts about the two falcons just north of Beauty and Dot.ca’s territory. All shall be well.


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