Fledge watch 7-14-14
By Rochester Falcon Watcher MAK
The starting temperature 6am when Donna and I arrived downtown for our watch was 65 (F) 16 (C) with cloudy conditions in the morning. Later on the sun made appearances on and off
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Donna and I found Beauty and 2 juvies on the east side rail of Widows Walk (WW) -we hoped one of them was Nettie as she left the Telesca building before we got downtown. We had issues most of the day IDing the falcons because of the dark conditions and this was one of those times.
We worked very hard to find Nettie and the rest of the clan-driving here and there, including up to the top of the Sister Cities parking garage to view the Frontier Communications Tower (FCT). We found Beauty and a juvie on FCT and a falcon on the playpen of Kodak Office and 2 juvies on Widows Walk (WW) but couldn’t ID any of them. We went to the Pont De Rennes pedestrian Bridge at High Falls and found Dan and a friend of his visiting from Florida, Mary.We saw a good looking young buck.
We left there to continue on our search for Nettie-I dropped Donna off in the hole and set out in the car to look around. Donna had 2 juvies on WW and one falcon on OCSR while I had a juvie on the small Frontier tower, Beauty on the platform railing and a falcon on the top arm of FCT. That’s a total of 6 falcons at the same time which meant Nettie was out and about flying.
I rejoined Donna in the hole as we watched Mercury eat on the top ibeam of OCSR while Beauty watched from the south corner.
Beauty finished off the food after Mercury got his fill-they left and so did we to the FCT where we had a juvie on one of the arms, DC on another and before breaking for awhile we saw Beauty on OCSR. The kids were out of sight and most likely sleeping.
When we returned at 4pm we found 2 juvies on FCT and Tesh was on WW with a falcon flying above her very high in the sky. Beauty and DC were on the west and south corners top ibeam of OCSR when a man appeared on the roof causing the Beautyful one to fly off followed by DC.
There was some fancy flying with up to 4 falcons jutting in and out of view around the Times Square, OCSR vicinity and at around 4:30pm we finally could ID Nettie on the Crossroads building as SusanC joined the watch. Beauty watched from TSB and DC from the Mercury money bag.
Susan left and joined Dan at High Falls and over the next couple hours Carol,Joyce,Brian,Larry and Jeanne came to watch with us. We had some sporadic flying and 3 juvies on WW-we just needed one more. Donna and I ended our watch after Joyce found Nettie on the southwest corner of WW joining her siblings. We left smiling after a successful fledge watch! 🙂
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July 15th, 2014 at 5:01 AM
Exciting watch! You better be careful, MAK, or Donna won’t want to leave.
July 15th, 2014 at 6:00 AM
Fine with me Bobbie, she’s good company! 🙂
July 15th, 2014 at 11:17 AM
Knew you would say that! Of course!!
July 15th, 2014 at 12:31 PM
Smiles all around!
July 15th, 2014 at 1:57 PM
Wall to wall smiles! 🙂