By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK

A great morning for a fledge watch with sunshine, blue skies and a starting temperature of 57 (F) 14 (C)

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As I arrived on the Broad St. Bridge (BSB)for my first fledge watch Dan was in his spot-he reported that there had been many stoops by Beauty and Dot.Ca (DC) with no catches before I arrived. Beauty was on the top ibeam west corner of OCSR and DC was off hunting.

5 minutes later DC showed up on the 3rd ibeam west corner below the Beautyful one then he quickly flew off and landed on the southeast wing ring of the Times Square building (TSB).

I could see all 4 eyasses up at the nest box area-Nor’Easter on the nest box roof, Mercury on the well wall parapet and the girls on the deck. At 6:24am DC stooped down the south side of TSB and pulled out of it just before reaching Exchange Blvd. then back to the southeast wing ring.

DC flew off to the jail tower top arm north side a few minutes later, stayed there briefly then flew to the northeast wing ring. Beauty remained on OCSR.

Dan left at 7am and I went down to the hole where I was closer and could see the north end of the well wall.  Around 7:30am Beauty joined her kids and perched on the parapet while Mercury was at the north end of the wall and Nor’Easter got off the roof as reported by Annette. TY. Soon after Beauty went to cam 4 (thanks Annette and Donna for letting me know) and started preening as one of the kids followed suit and preened too.

DebbieH  joined me for a bit before going to work as DC took off going after something between the TSB and Philppone building-Beauty flew off to join him and we lost sight of them temporarily behind the building. When they resurfaced DC went to the Wilder green strip and Beauty to the heel of Mercury. At 7:58am DC flew over to the top ibeam west corner of OCSR.

All was quiet so I left to run a couple errands at 8:15am-one of my duties was to walk Jeannes’ dog, Isabella. I do this 3 times a week and I always check the Brighton Site on those days for any falcon activity-today there were 3 Turkey Vultures on the north side of the northeast extension.

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I returned to downtown at 10:20 to continue my fledge watch from the hole. DC was on the southwest wing ring and I could see 3 eyasses on deck then one of the boys went over to the parapet.

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It turned out to be Nor’Easter and he continued on to the north end of the well wall-Mercury followed behind his brother and when he reached Nor’Easter it got a bit nerve wrecking as they switched spots and Mercury almost went over the edge at least 2  or 3 times! ( I got it on video-scared me  a bit) Nor’E ran back toward the deck followed by Mercury but he changed his mind and turned around to go back to the end of the wall to scare me some more by flapping his wings very rapidly-I thought he was going to fly off!

At 11:07am all 4 were on the deck but Mercury just had to go run the wall again a couple minutes later.  I found DC on the top ibeam west corner of OCSR at 11:19am or so and then Donna (thanks) let me know that Beauty had been in the nest box for the last hour and was now on the deck where I couldn’t see her. Finally just before 11:30am Mercury returned to the deck with his siblings-of course he went to the front edge by the main cam to get me riled up again! lol

All 4 were together out on the front of the deck before settling down a few minutes later leaving my field of vision.

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This was the last sight I saw of them as I ended my watch at 11:45am with everything calm, just the way I like it. I had to smile as I left downtown after an exciting and fun first fledge watch! 🙂

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