Morning watch 6-2-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
This morning the starting temperature was 64 (F) 18 (C) with blue skies and sun. The high is supposed to be 87 with high humidity building in as the day goes on
When I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge there were no falcons around. After checking around from the hole I went down to the Andrews St. bridge and spotted something white on the top ibeam of OCSR near the west corner. I drove down to State St. and pulled over across from the Rochester Plaza Hotel to observe Dot.Ca (DC)-the white one.
DC started out snoozing, woke up for a bit and looked around, then turned his back to the world.
I decided to go back to the hole and check for Beauty-parking on Aqueduct St. between THe Thomson Reuter and Philippone buildings. I could just see the Beautyful one past the Philippone roof from there as she was perched on cam 1. She too appeared to be napping with one eye open.
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When I played my video of her on my computer I could see that she was keeping watch while her right eye lid was closed-another cool thing about Peregrines! I went for coffee and when I came back naturally Beauty was gone-I checked the archives and could see that she went to the nest box just a couple minutes before my return. I drove to the bridge but couldn’t see her so I checked the river finding it to be flowing slower and the water level was down exposing a lot of the rocks.
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I went back to State St. to find that DC was still on the west corner top ibeam of OCSR and I also noticed the large wings of a leftover meal hanging over the northwest corner of the Crossroads building.
I ended my watch on a peaceful note and with a smile at 8am after seeing both adult downtown Rochester Peregrine Falcons! 🙂
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June 2nd, 2014 at 1:10 PM
Thanks for the river shots, MAK. Hopefully if the water is lower some of our other feathered friends will come back this year. One of my co-workers said he has seen a couple of cormorants, but we haven’t seen any herons or ospreys yet this year.
June 2nd, 2014 at 6:29 PM
I hope we get some herons and more soon-it’s always nice to expand our visions while on a falcon watch! 🙂