Morning watch 6-16-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
This morning started out sunny with blue sky and started to cloud up toward the end of the watch with a starting temperature of 60 (F) 16 (C)
Fellow watcher and friend Ginny from New Jersey is in town and staying with me until Friday morning so she will be joining me on my watches this week.
We arrived on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB) around 6:30am today and spotted Beauty on cam 1 so I drove down to the hole parking lot for a closer look.
At 7:02am the Beautyful one flew off to meet Dot.Ca (DC) who was bringing a small package in from the north.
DC landed under the northeast wing and Beauty landed next to him quite vocally, snatched the food and took it down to the nest box to feed their fast changing/growing eyasses.
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Beauty landing sequence
It was such a small bit of food that we couldn’t even see it in her talon so at the time we didn’t know she had food until Annette tweeted that food had arrived. Thanks! DC looked down toward the nest box then north and flew off at 7:04am stooping after something. He returned with nothing and landed under the northeast wing again.
Annette (TY) reported Beauty left the nest box about the time we saw DC fly off toward OCSR at 7:20am. He joined his Beautyful mate on OCSR.
Beauty was on the top ibeam west corner and DC was on the south corner-as Ginny said, they were bookends. Beauty started napping right away.
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At 7:54am Ginny saw Beauty fly off to the northeast-she went out over the river then flew to cam 1 while DC stayed on OCSR. We stationed ourselves on Aqueduct St. where we could keep an eye on both of them. Beauty continued her napping while DC looked her way.
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Around 8:10am Ginny spotted DC walk a few feet from the corner into the shade as I watched Beauty give a couple hand signals.
Our downtown dynamic duo then began snoozing on and off so Ginny and I decided to end our watch with big ole smiles on our faces! 🙂
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June 16th, 2014 at 8:11 PM
It’s been exciting to watch developments. Today all four of the eyasses were out of the nestbox! It’s hard to tell who is who, it helps that only two have yellow feet, but they keep the tags hidden.
June 16th, 2014 at 9:42 PM
dee, hold on cuz things are going to get a whole lot more exciting! 🙂