Hunting, Feeding, Flying and Guarding! Tuesday Evening Falcon Watch – 5/27/14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher Carol P.
Another beautiful evening with temps near 70 degrees (F). When I arrived downtown at approximately 6:00 pm, I joined Kathy O on the Broad St Bridge. Dot.ca was on guard duty on Camera #1, aka Pan Cam.
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Beauty was soaring over the city on a hunt.
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We lost sight of Beauty when she flew behind the Times Square Bldg. (TSB). The next time we saw her, she was heading in from the east and she was carrying prey. Dot.ca took off and joined her, both landing on the nest box platform. Beauty entered the nest box to feed the eyases and Dot.ca remained on the northeast corner of the nest box platform. This is all I got of Beauty as she flew over us carrying the prey.
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Dot.ca on the nest box platform while Beauty was inside the nest box feeding the eyases.
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While Beauty was still in the nest box, Dot.ca took off and flew off quickly to the northeast. He returned and landed on top of the Times Square Bldg on the northwest wing ring. An appropriate name that Kathy O came up with. 🙂
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After feeding the eyases, Beauty flew out of the nest box without the food. She flew over to the Mercury statue and landed on the heal.
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Dot.ca took off heading east and Beauty returned to the Times Square Bldg, landing on Pan Cam. Her turn to guard the eyases.
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I saw Beauty look up and I looked up just in time to see Dot.ca land above on the northeast wing ledge.
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When Kathy and I left at 8:00 pm, both Beauty and Dot.ca remained on the Times Square Bldg guarding their well fed eyases. It was time to call it a watch and head home. Goodnight all!
